[Remote] Staff Full Stack Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GoodParty.org is a civic technology organization building AI-powered tools to empower independent political candidates and elected officials. The Staff Full Stack Engineer will lead end-to-end technical projects, develop AI-native product features across the frontend, backend, and AI services, and improve architecture, evaluation, infrastructure, and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end across the stack — from the Next.js frontend through the NestJS backend and into the Python AI services that power them
• Set the frontend quality bar for AI-native product surfaces, defining component patterns and UI interaction models for agent-driven, conversational experiences
• Embed in a product squad as a key voice, partnering with product and design to take features from prototype to production
• Build and maintain the integration layer between the user-facing product and our Civic Agent Platform — owning the contracts, data shapes, and API boundaries that connect what users see to what agents compute
• Contribute to the evaluation and quality layer for user-facing AI features, including eval pipelines, golden datasets, and CI gates that catch model failures before they reach users
• Raise the engineering bar by turning repeated problems and slowdowns into shared infrastructure, reusable patterns, stronger tooling, and better development practices for the team
• Lead technical conversations across the stack with enough fluency in infrastructure, deployment, and observability to make sensible tradeoffs and escalate the right things
• Report to the CTO and partner closely with our Principal Engineer and squad Tech Leads

Skills

• • You thrive in a remote, fast-paced environment, balancing strategic thinking with a strong bias toward action
• • You bring 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years at Staff level or equivalent scope owning full stack product delivery
• • You are genuinely full stack — comfortable and productive in Next.js/React on the frontend and NestJS/TypeScript on the backend, and you don't have a preference layer you silently avoid
• • You walk the talk by using AI-native approaches (e.g. AI writes the code) yourself for coding, including Claude Code, Cursor, and MCPs
• • You have deep working knowledge of building cloud infrastructure (especially on AWS) and using infrastructure-as-code tools
• • You have shipped production LLM-powered features as a full stack engineer and understand the UI challenges of agentic systems: latency, streaming, uncertainty, and failure states
• • You have working familiarity with agent patterns — Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI tool use, LangChain, or equivalent — sufficient to design frontend and API contracts that serve them
• • You treat staying current as part of the job, not a side hobby. You keep up with where AI engineering is heading, you deep dive into the technology behind headlines and big claims, and fold the durable parts into your work
• • You have contributed to eval pipelines, golden datasets, or CI quality gates for LLM features
• • You've shipped features where content safety and output quality were not optional, and you design UIs that handle model errors and edge cases gracefully rather than silently
• • You bring strong opinions loosely held and expect engineering excellence
• • You communicate clearly, directly, and respectfully, and you're open to delivering and receiving candid feedback that helps the team grow
• We are not considering candidates currently based outside of the US, so please only apply if you are physically located in the US
• Unfortunately, we are not able to provide sponsorship for any of our roles at this time
• • You've shipped LLM features in high-trust or regulated domains where UI-level error handling and responsible output presentation were explicitly designed, not bolted on
• • You have experience building agent-facing UI patterns: streaming responses, structured tool results surfaced progressively, and confidence or uncertainty signals presented to non-technical users
• • You've contributed to open-source projects or developer communities
• • You have professional or volunteer experience in civic tech, democracy reform, political campaigns, or social impact initiatives

Benefits

• Innovative Bitcoin denominated deferred bonus plan, allowing you to have the amazing upside of being in a startup while working on a truly meaningful mission.
• Work where and how you like, on a fully remote team spread across the country.
• 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents.
• Unlimited PTO (sick and vacation) policy.
• 401(k) program available so you can contribute toward retirement savings (no employer match).
• Individual learning & development budget to fund your growth.
• Workspace setup stipend.
• If you work from home, we give $50/month to help with your internet and other expenses. If you prefer co-working, that's an option we can discuss too.

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