Senior Founding Engineer (Full Stack)

SENIOR FOUNDING ENGINEER (FULL STACK)

COMPANY: FLIGHTCAST

LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

REPORTING TO: CTO / FOUNDER

COMPENSATION: $175k-$250k + 0.1%-0.5% EQUITY

ABOUT FLIGHTCAST

FlightCast is trying to make running a video podcast not suck!

We’re building tech to make publishing video and audio everywhere one-click, and bringing all your analytics and ads under one roof.

We’re co-founded by Steven Bartlett - Diary of a CEO - the second largest podcast in the world. We are purpose-built to help make the largest podcasts even bigger.

MISSION

Help scale FlightCast from an early-stage creator platform into the best infrastructure for video-first podcast publishing and analytics.

With weekly guidance from our CTO, you will work largely solo to build major features, improve system architecture, and scale the platform so it can support both individual creators and enterprise podcast teams. This role is about building product pieces end-to-end, shipping meaningful product improvements quickly, and helping transform the platform from a strong V1 into a world-class V2 and beyond.

OUTCOMES

• Build scalable systems for creators and enterprise users
  Develop complex functionality such as publishing workflows, analytics pipelines, permissions systems, and media processing.

• Upgrade core platform architecture
  Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability across the codebase as the product scales.

• Reduce engineering bottlenecks
  Own technical areas end-to-end so work can move faster without constant oversight from the CTO.

• Improve the overall developer experience
  Help evolve the codebase from early product architecture into a clean, scalable system that the team can build on easily.

• Ship meaningful product improvements quickly
  Build and release new features that improve how creators publish, manage, and analyse their content.

COMPETENCIES

• You’ve used TypeScript, React and Next.js a lot, and have some experience with React Query, tRPC, and Drizzle/Prisma.

• Experience with Golang or Kubernetes (Our media system runs on this stack)

• Experience building or working with large scale analytics data systems such as ClickHouse or Tinybird (we use Tinybird)

• Bonus points for familiarity with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.

THIS ROLE IS FOR YOU IF

• You’ve built several, full-stack SaaS applications, by yourself, from idea to launch.

• You code in your free time, and read/watch programming content.

• You can dig into the code yourself (or with AI), figure out how things work, then build improvements and new features end-to-end.

• You have experience building at early-stage startups and shipping production software to real customers.

• Bonus Points: You have been a CTO or technical founder at a prior startup.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• You ship big features quickly and reliably without heavy oversight

• The platform becomes faster, more stable, and easier to build on because of your work

• Your PRs are approved without significant changes the vast majority of the time. (And aren’t slop)

• FlightCast evolves from an early product into a highly reliable and scalable platform for creators and enterprise customers

YOU’LL THRIVE HERE IF

• You genuinely enjoy shipping every day of the week

• You’ve built products end-to-end and want significant feature ownership

• You really really really love programming

• You care about building stuff that people actually use

• You love working with creators

LOCATION

Los Angeles, USA : We are an in-person-first culture and believe in fostering a vibrant and work environment centred around connection and community.

Occasional international travel may be required