Senior Fullstack Engineer

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Archive is hiring a Senior Fullstack Engineer. This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role on a small, meeting-light team that operates without a traditional product manager. You'll own features end to end, ship quickly, and help set the bar for how we build in an AI-native world.

Our day-to-day engineering workflow is AI-first: we build with tools like Claude and Devin as a normal part of how we work. You don't need to have worked in a fully AI-native environment before; what matters is genuine enthusiasm for building with AI and the judgment to use it well.

Responsibilities

Build across the stack

• Own fullstack features end to end, from design through release through maintenance, across a modern stack; true comfort on the backend is key
• Develop and maintain robust integrations (payments, gift cards, and beyond), building reliable, production-quality systems

Own it and collaborate

• Take real ownership in a flexible, fast-evolving environment with light process and no traditional Product Manager
• Collaborate cross-functionally to turn needs into shipped outcomes
• Share in the engineering on-call rotation (incident response and support)

Debug and strengthen the system

• Debug production issues across multiple levels of the stack
• Make pragmatic architecture and system design calls, balancing speed, scale, reliability, and maintainability

Build AI-first

• Use AI tools like Claude as a force multiplier across your workflows, with good judgment about where to trust them and where not to
• Help the team level up its AI-native development practices and set the bar for how we build in an AI-default world

Requirements

• A strong track record as a fullstack engineer with production experience across frontend and backend services, comfortable owning a feature end to end
• An AI-first dev workflow: you are ready and excited to build, review, and debug with AI coding tools and agents as a default, and can show how it makes you faster—and where you choose not to rely on it
• Bias towards action in a fast-moving, small-team environment: you ship, iterate, and take ownership without a heavy playbook
• Solid debugging and systems judgment: you can reason about an unfamiliar system and find the real problem
• Comfort with systems design and reasoning about scale, reliability, and trade-offs
• Familiarity with our stack (Next.js / React / TypeScript / Node / GraphQL / Postgres) and multi-tenant platform experience

The expected annual base salary range for this position is 180,000-200,000, USD. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren't limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for equity, and all employees are eligible for a full benefits package including employee and dependent healthcare and 401(k) enrollment.

Archive is a Series B company backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Energize Capital, and Bain Capital Ventures, and was named Fast Company's #2 Most Innovative Company in Retail in 2024. We're a small team with low egos and high agency, working on a problem that actually matters; and having a lot of fun doing it.

This is a remote role open across the continental US. We have offices in New York and the SF Bay Area, with hybrid options for those nearby.

We consider applicants of all backgrounds. If you are excited about what we're building but don't meet some of the criteria above, please don't let that discourage you from applying. Please note that we are unable to accept applications from candidates outside of the US at this time.