Lead Software Engineer

About CoreAgent

We build AI agents that automate operational work for finance, ops, CX, and recruiting. We’re now productising our delivery into the CoreAgent Hub — a multi‑tenant portal for clients to view agent status, logs, ROI, and manage integrations — while exposing a clean API for partners.

Role: Lead Engineer (Full‑Stack) — Founding Team

Location: Remote (time‑zone overlap with Europe preferred)

Reports to: Founder/CEO

What you’ll do (ownership areas)

• Architecture: Design the CoreAgent platform: multi‑tenant model, auth, RBAC, orgs/users, audit logs, settings, secrets/credentials vault, webhooks.
• CoreAgent Hub (v1): Next.js app with dashboards for automation runs, success/fail ratios, MTTR, cost estimates, and ROI; drill‑downs to run logs and inputs/outputs.
• Services & APIs: Node/TypeScript (or Python) services exposing a public/private API: run status, events, metrics, and configuration endpoints; signed webhooks.
• Integrations fabric: Build a clean interface to read/write from n8n workflows and our Python SDK; job queueing, retries, backoff, and idempotency.
• Observability: Tracing, metrics, error logging (Sentry/Logtail), health checks, incident playbooks; basic feature flags and config management.
• Billing & entitlements: Stripe subscriptions, usage metering, plan features, and seat limits; secure webhook handling and reconciliation.
• Security & compliance: Secrets management, least‑privilege access, OWASP Top 10, GDPR basics (DSAR/export/delete), backups, and data residency considerations.
• Developer experience: CI/CD (GitHub Actions), codegen/linters/tests, preview environments, sane monorepo structure (Turborepo/Vite), DX docs and RFCs.

Must‑have skills

• Front‑end:Next.js 14/React, TypeScript, Tailwind, TanStack Query; component libraries (shadcn/ui or similar). UX taste for clean dashboards.
• Back‑end: Node/TypeScript (or Python), REST/GraphQL, background jobs/queues (BullMQ, Cloud Tasks, Celery), webhooks, rate‑limiting, and caching.
• Data: Postgres (Supabase/RDS), schema design, migrations, Prisma/Drizzle, SQL proficiency.
• Infra: Vercel/Render/AWS, Docker, environment/secrets, CI/CD, preview deployments, basic IaC.
• Security: Auth (JWT/OAuth), RBAC, secrets vaults, audit logging, input validation; familiarity with GDPR/PII handling.
• Product mindset: Translate customer outcomes into sensible primitives and APIs; write crisp tickets and docs; iterate fast without breaking trust.

Nice‑to‑have

• Experience integrating with n8n or automation platforms; internal SDK design.
• LLM integrations (OpenAI/Anthropic), structured outputs, function calling, eval harnesses.
• Multi‑tenant SaaS, entitlements, metering, and admin consoles.
• E2E tests (Playwright), unit tests (Vitest/Jest); feature flags (LaunchDarkly/ConfigCat).

Product knowledge (what we’re building for)

• Finance automations: invoice/receipt parsing, GL coding suggestions, reconciliation, Slack approvals.
• Ops automations: reporting, reminders, data sync, file management, doc generation.
• CX automations: ticket triage, classification, suggested replies, customer summary cards.
• Recruiting automations: CV parsing, candidate scoring, scheduling.
• Metrics that matter: run success %, MTTR, cost per run, time saved, ROI per workflow.

Outcomes & KPIs

• Ship Hub v1 to production within 90–120 days.
• Establish platform reliability: 99.9% uptime target for services within first 6 months.
• Time‑to‑deploy new integration: < 3 days from spec to production.
• Developer velocity: < 10‑min CI, 80%+ PRs merged within 48h, solid E2E coverage on critical paths.

How we work (startup reality)

• Small, senior, no‑ego team; async by default, daily written updates; short weekly planning.
• We optimize for clarity and speed: RFCs → implement → measure → iterate.
• Founder‑led; direct customer feedback; shipping beats perfection.