Senior Engineer, Software Engineering

Rockstar is recruiting for a fast-growing SaaS company that empowers creators, coaches, and online experts to build thriving online communities. Our client offers a plug-and-play platform that enables users to manage discussions, courses, payments, events, documents, workflows, matchmaking, directories, and more—all on their own websites. The team is passionate about giving people the power to own and shape the way they engage with others online. The client is a plug-and-play online community builder. Think “Shopify for online communities”. The company is building a world where people have the power to own & shape the way they engage with others online. The platform allows creators, coaches, & online experts to build a thriving community business — with discussions, courses, payments, events, documents, workflows, matchmaking, directories & more — all on their own website. The company has hundreds of customers processing thousands of dollars every month. This role offers all the leverage and autonomy of being an early engineer without the burden of building everything from scratch.
- The team consists of individuals who know their craft. Typescript is taken seriously. AI agents are here & the company is ready to use them as a force-multiplier. Significant time has been spent building incredibly expressive & flexible application building blocks. AI will allow the team to double down on these through MCP and agentic configuration, providing the magic of tools like Replit & Lovable without the brittleness. Writing modular, maintainable, thoughtful code
- Creating rails to enable AI coding agents to robustly make changes & develop new features
- Monitoring the production environment and working with users to identify & resolve bugs Remote restrictions Workday must overlap by at least 5 hours with New York, NY, USA Appreciate working with Typescript, type systems & functional patterns
- Enjoy writing high-quality code within the constraints of a rapidly changing product
- Are not afraid to dive into unfamiliar technologies & platforms Efficiently matching community members via max weight matching & linear programming
- Abstracting the mobile app to allow for custom white-labeling Potential projects for this role…
- Building the first version of the MCP server
- Reworking frontend infrastructure to enable communities to create SEO-indexable content
- Building a new community-centric voice & video call experience
- Optimizing API server infrastructure and database queries to accommodate usage growth
- Establishing an app ecosystem to allow external developers to build custom apps within the platform
- A strong background working with Typescript or similar typed languages
- Experience with React or similar frontend component frameworks
- Experience scaling backend infrastructure & identifying performance bottlenecks
- Empathy for users and the desire to carefully craft delightful user experiences
- A love for building & experimenting with products Bonus points for candidates who…
- Have experience with profiling & monitoring NodeJS in production
- Have experience building realtime applications The company loves Typescript The entire stack is type-safe from the initial database call to the last React prop. Developer experience is a priority, and the team is not afraid to spend time improving internal tooling if it will allow for faster and/or better shipping.