Senior Full Stack Engineer -- Confidential (Live-Experience Tech, NYC) Job at FOUND, Mundelein, IL

  • FOUND
  • Mundelein, IL

Job Description

Job Description

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About the Company

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About the companyOur client is a fast-growing, venture-backed NYC startup building the all-in-one platform for live-experience businesses. Nightlife venues, festivals, hospitality groups and event organizers run ticketing, reservations, table management, door operations, payments, POS integrations, CRM and marketing on one system — and guests book through its consumer apps.

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  • Growth: several-fold year-over-year revenue growth, and profitable before raising institutional capital
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  • Customers: some of the best-known hospitality groups, resorts and music festivals in the US
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  • Backing: top-tier investors plus founders and executives from well-known consumer and marketplace companies
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  • What's next: AI-powered features, new middleware products, a consumer app and international expansion
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We're bringing more of our engineering in-house, so the engineers who join now will shape how the platform is built for years.

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About the Role

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The roleAs a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll ship features end to end across our TypeScript platform — from NestJS APIs to the React/Next.js apps that venue teams, promoters and guests use every night. You'll work closely with customers and our business team, so you'll see your work go live on Friday and Saturday nights.

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Responsibilities

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What you'll own:

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  • Build and scale the reservation, ticketing and table-management APIs (NestJS, Prisma, MySQL)
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  • Ship the venue manager dashboard, promoter portal, internal admin tools and consumer web (React, Next.js)
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  • Build real-time door and floor updates with Socket.IO, Redis and Bull background jobs
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  • Own payment flows on Stripe and Stripe Connect, including payouts to venues
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  • Build and harden POS integrations with Toast, Oracle Micros/Simphony, Aloha, Square, Omnivore and others
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  • Deliver custom implementations for enterprise clients, working directly with their teams
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  • Help bring AI-powered features to the product
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  • Raise the bar on code quality, testing and observability as we grow the in-house team
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Qualifications

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What you'll bring

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  • BS in Computer Science or a related engineering field
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  • 5+ years of professional software engineering, including 2+ years at a senior level on a shipped product
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  • Production experience with TypeScript and Node.js on the backend (NestJS or Express)
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  • Production experience with React and Next.js on the frontend
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  • Strong relational database skills (MySQL or Postgres) with an ORM such as Prisma or TypeORM
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  • A track record of building third-party integrations, webhooks or payment flows that hold up at scale
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  • Experience on a multi-product platform, ideally including custom implementations for enterprise clients
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  • Comfort working directly with clients and a bias for clear, direct communication and fast feedback
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Required Skills

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  • Production experience with TypeScript and Node.js on the backend (NestJS or Express)
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  • Production experience with React and Next.js on the frontend
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  • Strong relational database skills (MySQL or Postgres) with an ORM such as Prisma or TypeORM
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  • A track record of building third-party integrations, webhooks or payment flows that hold up at scale
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  • Experience on a multi-product platform, ideally including custom implementations for enterprise clients
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  • Comfort working directly with clients and a bias for clear, direct communication and fast feedback
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Preferred Skills

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Great to have

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  • iOS experience — native Swift/UIKit apps, ideally consumer or staff-facing apps with payments or push notifications
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  • Background in reservations, hospitality, restaurant tech, POS, payments or ticketing
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  • Hands-on work with POS systems such as Toast, Oracle Micros/Simphony, Square or Omnivore
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  • Stripe Connect or other marketplace payout experience
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  • Redis, Bull queues and WebSockets/Socket.IO for real-time features
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  • AWS (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache), Vercel and Cloudflare
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  • Python (FastAPI, pandas) for analytics work, or Android/Kotlin experience
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  • Experience building AI/LLM-powered product features
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Tech stack

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  • AreaTools
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  • BackendTypeScript, Node.js, NestJS/Express, Prisma, MySQL, Redis, Bull, Swagger, Socket.IO
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  • WebReact, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Sass, Ant Design, Material UI, Redux, React Hook Form/Yup
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  • iOSSwift, UIKit, App Clips, iPad workflows, CocoaPods, Swift Package Manager
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  • AndroidKotlin, Jetpack Compose, coroutines, Retrofit/Ok Stripe PaymentSheet
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  • CloudAWS (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudWatch), Vercel, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, nginx, PM2
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  • Payments and messagingStripe and Stripe Connect, Auth0, Twilio, SendGrid, Firebase, Sinch, Sendblue, Bandwidth
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  • IntegrationsToast, Oracle Micros/Simphony, InfoGenesis, Aloha, Square, Omnivore, Google Maps/Places, Klaviyo, Laylo, Bandsintown
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  • Data and monitoringPython, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, pandas, Sentry, Firebase Crashlytics, Microsoft Clarity
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  • ToolingGitHub Actions, Codemagic, Jest, ESLint, Prettier, Docker, MkDocs
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Pay range and compensation package

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Compensation, location and process

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  • Base salary$150,000–$220,000, based on experience
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  • BenefitsHealth and dental, gym membership credit, monthly MetroCard, Uber rides home after late shifts
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  • LocationNew York City — in person or hybrid; remote considered for exceptional candidates
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  • CultureHigh intensity and high trust: flexible hours, flexibility for family needs, direct communication and fast feedback
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  • Interview processIntro and culture conversationTechnical interview with senior engineers and our CTOFinal conversation with the business team on role, compensation and start dateWe move quickly and can make decisions within days.
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Job Tags

Flexible hours, Night shift, Afternoon shift

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