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Own features end-to-end. High-leverage IC role with founding-level impact.\nThe Mission\nEverstar builds the intelligence layer that makes nuclear power actually deployable -collapsing regulatory workflows from months to days. Gordian already powers engineering and compliance work for utilities, advanced reactor companies, and hyperscalers. We pair deep nuclear domain expertise with world-class product execution and move with startup speed.\nNow we need a Founding Fullstack Engineer to turn complex engineering and regulatory workflows into intuitive, production-grade software.\nYou'll be joining the Apollo Team of Nuclear. You'll build alongside engineers from Tesla, SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, Google, and Microsoft. You'll learn from nuclear and national security experts who cut their teeth at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, CIA, and NuScale.\nThe Role (reporting to the CEO)\nNot a contractor. Not a feature factory. This is an ownership-first role.\nYou'll architect and ship product features end-to-end -from database design to API contracts to pixel-perfect UI. Think 60% frontend / 40% backend with the autonomy to make technical decisions and the accountability to own outcomes.\nMost weeks you'll be designing new flows, implementing features, and refactoring systems-then immediately seeing customers use what you shipped.\nYou will:\nBuild user-facing features: translate messy regulatory workflows into clean, intuitive UI/UX that nuclear professionals actually want to use.\n\nOwn the stack: design APIs, optimize queries, implement frontend interactions, and debug production issues-whatever it takes to ship.\n\nSet product standards: you're early enough to define how we think about code quality, design systems, testing, and the entire product development process.\n\nCollaborate with domain experts: work directly with nuclear SMEs and AI engineers to understand complex requirements and ship solutions that actually solve problems.\n\nBalance speed and craft: know when to optimize for polish and when to ship fast; make tradeoffs consciously and communicate them clearly.\n\nLead by example: as the team scales, you'll mentor other engineers-but first, you'll prove the playbook yourself.\n\nA sample week: ship new document collaboration feature; refactor search results to improve load time by 40%; pair with AI engineer to integrate new model output; design mockups for compliance workflow redesign; debug production issue reported by customer; review two PRs.\nWhat You've Done\n3-8 years fullstack experience building production web apps. You've shipped features users depend on daily and owned parts of the product top to bottom.\n\nStrong frontend chops: expert-level TypeScript/React, deep understanding of modern frontend patterns, and genuine care about UI/UX details.\n\nSolid backend fundamentals: comfortable with APIs, databases, auth, and backend architecture. You can debug performance issues and design scalable systems.\n\nProduct sense: you think about business outcomes, not just code. You ask \"why are we building this?\" and \"how will users actually use it?\"\n\nOwnership DNA: you've led projects, made technical decisions, and been accountable for outcomes-not just tickets.\n\nBonus points: experience with technical SaaS, regulated industries, or you have strong design taste and can mockup flows in Figma.\n\nNo nuclear background required-only the drive to build products that matter.\nWho You're Building For\nOur customers are the critical operators in the nuclear industry-the professionals keeping 20% of U.S. electricity safe and reliable. They're:\nOverworked and under-resourced: carrying the weight of the grid on their backs\n\nNavigating byzantine regulations: decades-old processes that slow everything down\n\nDesperate for modern tools: they deserve software as good as what consumer tech gets\n\nThe products you build will help them:\nOnboard and train faster -reducing time-to-productivity from months to weeks\n\nExecute safety-critical workflows -with confidence, speed, and audit trails\n\nKeep vital infrastructure safe -because \"good enough\" isn't good enough in nuclear\n\nThis is meaningful work in the truest sense-you're giving frontline professionals the tools they need to secure the energy backbone of our society.\nWhat's at Stake\nIf we succeed: Operators get world-class tools, nuclear scales to meet exploding energy demand, and we power the AI era with clean energy. The products you build directly accelerate deployment.\n\nIf we fail: Nuclear remains stuck in red tape, operators stay overworked without modern tools, and humanity misses a once-in-a-generation chance to solve climate.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like (90 days)\nShipped ≥3 major features to production that customers actively use.\n\nProduct quality standards you set (testing, code review, design patterns) are now team norms.\n\nCustomer-reported bugs down ≥50% because you improved monitoring, testing, or reliability.\n\nYou've owned a critical system -search, document viewer, compliance workflow, or core infrastructure-that other engineers depend on.\n\nAt least one product decision you made (architecture, UX flow, or technical tradeoff) is now the way we do things at Everstar.\n\nGrowth Path\nStrong founding fullstack engineers typically grow into Head of Engineering, Product Lead, or CTO-track roles as the company scales.\nFirst, you'll prove you can own product features and set the bar for execution.\nWhy Everstar\nWork with the best: high-caliber, wartime team that builds things that scale\n\nBuild shit that matters: products that keep the grid safe and accelerate the clean energy future\n\nTop of market base + meaningful equity in a fast-growing company; standard benefits (health/dental/vision, FSA, wellness stipend)\n\nIRL in NYC (midtown/Bryant Park). Occasional travel to nuclear power plants and conferences.\n\nHow to Apply (show, don't tell)\nSubmit application with:\nResume AND LinkedIn profile\n\nPortfolio or GitHub: show us something you built (side project, open-source work, or product you're proud of)\n\n200 words: \"What excites you most about building products for nuclear deployment?\"\n\n150 words: \"Describe a product/feature you owned end-to-end. 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