Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ZobeLab is an innovative music technology startup building a comprehensive platform that empowers independent artists, producers, labels, and music professionals through AI-driven tools, education, community, and career opportunities. The Lead Full Stack Engineer will own end-to-end technical delivery, including architecture, backend APIs, React web applications, React Native mobile experiences, infrastructure, and AI-driven features. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers, enforcing engineering standards, and guiding the platform’s expansion into EdTech, FinTech, MusicTech, and immersive technologies.
Responsibilities
- Full-Stack Architecture & Execution: Design, build, and maintain scalable micro-services and backend APIs using NestJS and TypeScript, backed by robust data stores
- Frontend Mastery & Optimization: Architect responsive web interfaces in React and cross-platform mobile applications in React Native. Relentlessly profile and optimize bundle sizes, render performance, memory footprints, and network payloads
- Technical Mentorship & Internship Oversight: Directly mentor, manage, and unblock 1–2 engineering interns. Design structured learning paths, conduct code reviews, and transform high-potential early-career talent into productive contributors
- Engineering Governance: Enforce automated testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and high standards of architectural documentation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, and executive stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into elegant, maintainable technical roadmaps
- Own the full development lifecycle as we move from MVP to scalable platform
- Lead hands-on engineering tasks, coding, code reviews, and architecture decisions
- Translate product requirements into reliable and optimized builds
- Build and refine infrastructure for EdTech, FinTech, and MusicTech integrations
- Lead, enhance, develop, and train AI while also collaborating if necessary with AI consultants and product teams on AI-driven features
- Spearhead integration of Metaverse, Web3, VR/AR/XR or immersive features where appropriate
- Help recruit, lead, and grow the dev team as the platform expands
- Proactively solve technical challenges and propose innovative solutions
- Move fast, iterate faster — and elevate our execution standards with urgency
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead capacity
- Deep, production-grade expertise in JavaScript / TypeScript (ES6+, asynchronous patterns, memory management)
- Advanced backend proficiency with NestJS (dependency injection, modules, guards, interceptors, microservices architecture)
- Extensive frontend experience building complex state-driven applications using React and React Native (iOS/Android)
- Demonstrated track record in frontend optimization (profiling re-renders, virtualization of long lists, image caching, offline-first synchronization, and bridging native modules)
- Proven experience in mentoring junior engineers or interns, establishing code review culture, and delegating scoped technical tasks effectively
- Solid grounding in containerization (Docker), cloud deployments, and modern CI/CD workflows
- Hands on experience building a direct to consumer AI product
- Experience in software integration and API development
- Demonstrated expertise in pushing applications to app stores (iOS and Android)
- Have experience or be willing to learn as much about MusicTech, AI, FinTech, Metaverse, EdTech, NFTs, Crypto, and stay updated on future technology or development of new technologies
- Comfort with startup environments and flexible, evolving roadmaps
- Availability and willingness to commit time and energy as a core part of a growing startup team
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership
- We need someone ambitious, hungry to build, willing to •lead by doing•, and ready to contribute creatively as much as technically
- You must be execution-focused and comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, & bringing clarity to chaos
- Nice to have hands on experience with python/FastAPI
- Experience with platforms serving independent artists or creatives
- Familiarity with music distribution APIs, learning management systems, or token-based ecosystems
- Interest in building for global communities & creator economies
- Past role in a startup from MVP to launch & growth phase
- Strong AI/ML understanding or experience with integrating AI into platforms
- Past experience building or contributing to platforms in MusicTech, EdTech, FinTech, or Metaverse spaces
Benefits
- Equity-only opportunity until investor funding is secured, with a 4-year vesting and 1-year cliff vesting schedule for equity
- Opportunity to transition into a full-time salary role upon funding being secured for the startup
- Fractional or part-time work arrangement
- Fully remote opportunity (virtual/telework)
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