Full-Stack Software Engineer (Junior-Mid)

Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Junior-mid)

Remote | Part-time to Full-time Role | PST Overlap Required

About

We're Notova, an AI-powered academic workspace helping serious learners work smarter. We're pre-seed, moving fast, and looking for our first engineering hire. This is a founding role. You'll own the entire technical stack and grow into Head of Engineering as we scale. Our team is young, ambitious, and moves fast. Open to juniors and mid-level candidates.

Who We're Looking For

- Recent CS grad or 1 to 2 years of experience, juniors and mid-level both welcome

- Strong fundamentals with shipped projects or startup experience

- Genuine fluency with AI coding tools, Claude Code, Cursor, and similar workflows

- Clear communicator with non-technical founders and designers

- Eager to own technical direction, pitch solutions, and move fast

What You'll Do

- Audit and refactor an AI-built codebase, make it production-solid

- Ship new features directly alongside the founder and product designer

- Have full context on every product decision from day one

- Lead technical direction and strategy for an AI-native web app

Stack

React, TypeScript, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Railway, Stripe, multi-provider AI APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI)

Compensation and Reality

We're closing our pre-seed round in August/September 2026. Between now and close, this role is part-time and equity. We're being upfront about that because we're looking for someone committed to the mission and early-stage environment of a pre-seed startup.

Once we close pre-seed, salary kicks in and starts at $2,000-$3,000/month with meaningful founding equity. This salary is intentional to match our founding team and scales directly with funding/growth milestones.

Benefits

Join an early-stage AI startup that values culture fit and energy over resumes. We work hard, move fast, and actually enjoy what we're building!

- Founding role equity and clear path to head of engineering

- Work directly with the founder with real ownership, no bureaucracy

- Fully remote with async-friendly hours

- Pre-seed salary (Sept 2026) + founding role equity