Founding/Full-Stack Engineer (React/TypeScript, LLMs)
VanHack
New
Posted 21 hours ago
Founding/Full-Stack Engineer (React/TypeScript, LLMs)
Toronto, Canada
Must-have skills
Language required
What you’ll do
- Own end-to-end product development across a React/TypeScript web app
- Extend and harden our Supabase backend and analytics (PostHog, Amplitude)
- Design, integrate, and iterate on LLM-powered features (incl. MCP server integrations)
- Ship fast, validate with users, and help shape product direction and roadmap
- Establish engineering standards, architecture, and tooling for a fast-moving 0→1 team
- Collaborate closely on UX for an English-heavy consumer experience
- Optional path: grow into Founding Engineer/CTO as we scale
Our stack
- Frontend: React + TypeScript (responsive web; mobile app later)
- Backend: Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Edge Functions)
- Analytics: PostHog, Amplitude
- AI: LLM integrations; MCP server prototype connected to OpenAI applets
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience with React and TypeScript; comfort across the stack
- Familiarity with LLMs and shipping AI-assisted product features
- Experience in zero-to-one environments; comfortable with rapid change and ambiguity
- Product-minded: pragmatic, opinionated when needed, communicates tradeoffs clearly
- Excellent written/spoken English; appreciates nuance in consumer UX and copy
- Nice to have: Supabase/Postgres, analytics instrumentation, OpenAI ecosystem, MCP
Why join
- Direct impact as the first engineering hire on a high-velocity consumer product
- Broad ownership from architecture to product decisions
- Path to Founding Engineer/CTO for the right person