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As a Senior Full Stack Engineer you'll own features end to end - from the data behind them to the React UI in front of them, from design to go-live. That includes the AI-native parts of the product: search that spans the network, retrieval over founder and portfolio data, and assistive workflows that put the right context in front of the right person.\nYou'll also lead the wind-down of our legacy founder tools, consolidating what matters into OS and retiring the rest cleanly.\nThis is a small, high-trust team. We move fast, ship real things, and expect everyone to be able to hold a thread all the way through.\nWhat you will do\nOwn features on Techstars OS end to end - design, build, test, and ship, from data ingestion and API layers through to the web app\nBuild AI-native features into the product: semantic and federated search across the network, retrieval over portfolio and founder data, and assistive workflows that surface the right context at the right moment\nLead the migration and shutdown of legacy founder tools - including Techstars Universe and our application management system - consolidating functionality into OS or retiring it cleanly\nWork across our Enterprise Data Platform and OS to build the pipelines that feed real-time features, search, and AI use cases\nRaise the floor on reliability and velocity: tests, code review, and CI/CD practices that hold up as the team grows - including how we fold AI coding tools into that loop\nAct as a technical resource for the team - unblock others, weigh in on architecture, and keep context moving across time zones\nWhat you bring\nStrong TypeScript and Python, and the judgment to know when to reach for each\nSolid React experience - you can build clean, functional UIs without a dedicated frontend team carrying you\nProficiency with relational databases: data modeling, migrations, and query performance under real load. We use PostgreSQL\nExperience building data pipelines end to end - ingestion, transformation, and delivery to downstream consumers. We use event streaming, but experience with any comparable system transfers\nExperience shipping LLM-backed features to production: retrieval, embeddings, and the evaluation loop that keeps quality honest. You understand the hard part is uncertainty, evidence, and recovery - not the API call\nComfortable operating containerized services in a major cloud with infrastructure defined as code. 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