Full-Stack Lead Engineer Santa Maria da Feira

Full-Stack Lead Engineer
Santa Maria da Feira
Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro, Portugal

Company:
Career
Genie

Location:
Remote (Portugal-based)

Type:
Full-Time

Compensation:
45, 000- 60, 000/year
+ Equity

About Career
Genie

Career
Genie
is reimagining how people find meaningful work with a platform powered by multiple agents like AI Recruiter, AI Career Coach and AI Global Mobility Expert amongst many others that collaborate with each other seamlessly to connect talent with opportunity. Backed by
Techstars
, were building at the edge of
AI, automation, and impact
.

We're now scaling our engineering team to power the next phase of our web and mobile experience, helping users get career clarity, verified skills, and job access, faster than ever before.

The Role

We're hiring a
Full-Stack Lead Engineer
to take ownership of our engineering architecture, guide best practices, and ship core product features across web, mobile, and backend. You'll work directly with the founding team (Product, Design, and CTO), and play a key role in bringing to life our AI agent workflows, automation systems, and
- time career insights.

This is a
hands-on leadership role
with the opportunity to grow into
Head of Engineering
as the team scales.

Tasks

What Youll Do

• Lead
  - stack development:
  Contribute across our platform, React (web), (backend), React Native (mobile).

• Collaborate across teams:
  Work closely with Product and Design to scope, plan, and deliver features.

• Build AI-powered workflows:
  Support features built around AI agents,
  voice interactions
  , and
  n8n automations
  .

• Mentor and guide engineers:
  Establish code quality standards, review PRs, and help grow the team.

• Own infrastructure:
  Manage performance, scalability, and reliability of our services, hosted on
  Azure
  .

• Iterate fast:
  Embrace a builder mindset prototype quickly, ship, learn, improve.

Requirements

You Should Have

• 5+ years of
  - stack engineering experience (React, , REST APIs)

• Experience leading projects or small engineering teams

• Comfort working with
  React Native
  or
  - first development

• Familiarity with
  Azure
  cloud services and deployment workflows

• Exposure to
  AI-driven product features
  (e. g. , GPT APIs, voice agents, intelligent UIs)

• Based in
  Portugal
  with fluent English communication skills

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience using AI-enhanced developer tools
  like
  Git
  Hub Copilot
  ,
  Cursor
  ,
  Clide
  , or similar IDEs

• Experience with
  n8n
  , Zapier, or similar
  - code/low-code tools

• Interest in building for edtech, jobtech, or
  - impact platforms

• Familiarity with UX collaboration and
  - paced product iteration

• Passion for the future of work and AI-assisted career tools

Benefits

Why Join Career
Genie

• Purpose-driven product:
  Help people find better careers, faster powered by AI

• Startup ownership:
  Play a central role in shaping our tech stack and engineering culture

• Remote-first from Portugal:
  We care about outcomes, not
  - in time

• Work with
  - edge tech:
  Voice agents, GPT workflows, automation, and internal tools

• Equity upside:
  Competitive salary + real ownership as we scale

• Backed by Techstars
  with access to an international network of mentors and advisors