Staff Full Stack Engineer

Role Description

GoodParty.org is looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to help scale frontier AI to empower tens of thousands of Independent candidates and elected officials who are putting people over parties. This is a role for an engineer who nerds out about the latest in AI, tests what actually works, and turns the best ideas into durable, high-impact features for our users.

You will lead technical projects without needing to be a people manager:

• Shaping architecture, setting patterns, building across the stack, and pushing our AI-native products into the hands of civic leaders who are solving real problems for their communities.

What you'll do:

• Own features end-to-end across the stack — from the Next.js frontend through the NestJS backend and into the Python AI services that power them.
• Set the frontend quality bar for AI-native product surfaces, defining component patterns and UI interaction models for agent-driven, conversational experiences.
• Embed in a product squad as a key voice, partnering with product and design to take features from prototype to production.
• Build and maintain the integration layer between the user-facing product and our Civic Agent Platform — owning the contracts, data shapes, and API boundaries that connect what users see to what agents compute.
• Contribute to the evaluation and quality layer for user-facing AI features, including eval pipelines, golden datasets, and CI gates that catch model failures before they reach users.
• Raise the engineering bar by turning repeated problems and slowdowns into shared infrastructure, reusable patterns, stronger tooling, and better development practices for the team.
• Lead technical conversations across the stack with enough fluency in infrastructure, deployment, and observability to make sensible tradeoffs and escalate the right things.
• Report to the CTO and partner closely with our Principal Engineer and squad Tech Leads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years at Staff level or equivalent scope owning full stack product delivery.
• Genuinely full stack — comfortable and productive in Next.js/React on the frontend and NestJS/TypeScript on the backend.
• Experience using AI-native approaches (e.g. AI writes the code) for coding, including Claude Code, Cursor, and MCPs.
• Deep working knowledge of building cloud infrastructure (especially on AWS) and using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Shipped production LLM-powered features as a full stack engineer and understand the UI challenges of agentic systems: latency, streaming, uncertainty, and failure states.
• Working familiarity with agent patterns — Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI tool use, LangChain, or equivalent.
• Strong opinions loosely held and expect engineering excellence.
• Clear, direct, and respectful communication, open to delivering and receiving candid feedback.

Requirements

• Contributed to eval pipelines, golden datasets, or CI quality gates for LLM features.
• Shipped features where content safety and output quality were not optional, designing UIs that handle model errors and edge cases gracefully.
• Stay current with AI engineering trends and fold durable parts into your work.

Benefits

• Join a passionate team with diverse political views focused on one mission.
• Public Benefit Corporation prioritizing social impact over profit.
• Innovative Bitcoin denominated deferred bonus plan.
• Fully remote work environment.
• 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents.
• Unlimited PTO policy for work-life balance.
• 401(k) program available for retirement savings.
• Individual learning & development budget.
• Workspace setup stipend for remote work.
• $50/month for internet and other expenses if working from home.
• Fully funded for mission-focused work.
• Salary range of $200,000 - $235,000 for this remote, full-time position.