Pynea
Senior Full Stack Engineer
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The best person doesn't always get the job. Usually it's the best CV.
Pynea works the other way round. We use AI to get the best out of candidates, not to filter them out: real challenges, real work, and a look at how someone thinks their way through a problem. What it surfaces goes to a human to judge. That's the part a CV can never show you, and it's the part we're built to surface.
We just launched. Real users, and the scale-up starts now. We operate like a top-tier creative engineering studio: small team, high ownership, no corporate theatre.
We're hiring a Full-Stack Engineer to build the engine behind it. Not a ticket-shop. You'd be shaping the product and the platform from the ground up.
The impact you'll have
This is the part that matters, so we'll be specific.
On the product:
We just launched. There's no decade of legacy to inherit and no committee to wade through - but there are real users depending on it now. The decisions you make - the architecture, the trade-offs, the reliability bar -become the product as it scales. Few engineers ever get to leave a fingerprint this deep, this early.
On real people:
Every API you ship, every queue that doesn't drop data, every dashboard that holds up under load decides whether a candidate gets judged on their real capability or gets lost in the noise. Your code is the difference between a fair shot and a missed one - at scale.
On how companies hire:
When Pynea works, hiring gets faster, sharper, and evidence-based. You're not building a feature. You're helping kill the CV lottery.
On the business:
From 10 users to 10,000, the systems you build are what let us scale with confidence instead of duct tape. Growth doesn't break what you've built - it proves it.
Where you'll grow
Bring real depth in one area and we'll stretch you across the rest - fast. On a small early-stage team you don't get to hide in a lane, and that's the point: you'll go from strong specialist to genuinely full-stack faster here than anywhere with layers and handoffs.
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You'll own features end-to-end - design, build, ship, measure and watch them land in front of real users in days, not quarters. You'll make sharp trade-offs and live with them, which is how engineers actually level up. And you'll do it alongside people with high standards who will push you and trust you with scope most companies wouldn't hand over for years.
If you want the option to learn, stretch, and compound as an engineer - this is built for that.
What you'll own
- High-concurrency APIs and the reliability foundations behind them: retries, idempotency, queues. Event-driven systems that don't drop data.
- Product surfaces - dashboards, reporting, candidate and company experiences - that stay consistent under load.
- New features and services on an evolving platform, shipped fast and built to last.
- Cloud-ready architecture that scales cleanly from 10 to 10,000+ users.
This role is NOT for you if…
We're honest up front, because the bar is the product.
- You're a "vibe coder." Ship AI code you can't explain - the architecture, the trade-offs, the implementation - and this isn't your role. Full stop.
- You need a spec for everything. If you can't move without complete context, you'll stall in a place that moves fast on incomplete information.
- You're a one-trick specialist who won't grow. Deep in one area is what we want. Refusing to leave it isn't.
- You ship "fast" by cutting corners. Speed bought with skipped security, reliability, or tests is a liability, not a strength.
- You love process more than output. Standups about standups and decks instead of decisions - not here.
- You want to coast. This is a launch. It's owned end-to-end, and it's visible.
You'll thrive here if…
- You're genuinely excellent in at least one area of the stack, with the fundamentals to operate across the rest.
- You pick up unfamiliar tech fast - a new framework is a weekend, not a blocker.
- You think in systems: design patterns, OOP, complexity, and what breaks at 10,000 users.
- You want to own outcomes, not tasks.
- You use AI as a force multiplier, not a crutch - and you know exactly where that line sits.
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The stack
- Backend: TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Frontend: React Next.js) and/or Flutter - at least one is mandatory
- Infrastructure: AWS / GCP, Terraform
You won't be expert in all of it on day one. You will have the baseline to ramp on anything here quickly - that foundation is the non-negotiable that lets a strong specialist operate as a true full-stack engineer.
How we build
- The judgment to read an unfamiliar codebase fast and extend complex systems safely.
- Balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability without pretending the trade-offs don't exist.
- A reliability mindset: monitoring, logging, retries, QA, incident-aware design.
- Security by default - we handle sensitive hiring data, so GDPR-safe, secure-by-design is non-negotiable.
- AI in your daily workflow (Claude, Cursor, or similar), used securely and responsibly - improving speed and quality, never trading away security, scalability, maintainability, or craft.
Why Pynea
- Real ownership. You own systems, not tickets. Your decisions ship.
- Small team, high signal. No layers, no politics, no theatre - just sharp people building hard things.
- A mission with teeth. You're helping replace the CV-lottery with evidence. That's worth building well.
- Room to grow. Deep today, broad and sharper in six months. We invest in people who invest in the craft.
- High taste, high standards. We hire people who raise the bar - and we protect that bar.
This is the part where you decide whether you want the obvious, comfortable role somewhere bigger - or the one where what you build actually matters, and so do you!
If this is you, let's talk!
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