Lead Full Stack Engineer

AI overview

Own the full-stack development of product features using AI tools while collaborating with leadership on significant technical improvements.

We're hiring a hands-on Lead Engineer to design, build, and ship product features across our Go microservices and modern React front-end.

You'll work directly with our engineering leadership, Head of Product, and designer, taking end-to-end ownership of complex problems while pushing the boundaries of how engineers leverage AI both in product and in their daily workflow.

This is a building-first role. We expect you to be delivering significant cross-stack features independently within your first two months.

What You'll Be Doing:

Full-Stack Feature Development (Primary Focus)

- Design and ship new features across our Go microservices and React (Remix) front-end

- Own complex problems end-to-end — from database design to user experience

- Collaborate with engineering leadership, PM, and designer to deliver high-impact product improvements

- Build internal tooling to accelerate the entire team

Infrastructure & Developer Experience (Secondary)

- Maintain and improve our Kubernetes (GKE) infrastructure

- Contribute to CI/CD, observability, and developer workflows

- Help optimize our AI-assisted development tooling and practices

Requirements

Must-Haves:

- Active AI tool usage — you're already coding with AI assistants daily (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)

- 7+ years senior engineering experience with strong full-stack product development

- Formal or informal experience providing technical leadership

- Systems thinking and ability to navigate complex technical systems

- Proven track record of shipping products

- Go familiarity or strong experience with Java, Scala, C#, Rust, Python or TypeScript

- Modern React (Remix/react-router or similar frameworks)

- Some DevOps experience with production systems and deployment

- Strong written and verbal communication skills for remote, async-friendly setup

- Self-driven and able to work autonomously

Bonus:

- Significant DevOps/Cloud experience (Google Cloud, Kubernetes, microservices)

- GraphQL API design in microservice environments

- Event-driven architectures (Kafka)

- Distributed database experience (Cassandra, ScyllaDB)

- TailwindCSS utility patterns

Benefits

What We Offer

  • £100k-£120k base + meaningful equity
  • London-based, hybrid
  • Direct influence at critical inflection point
  • Work with experienced founders (CEO: 6x founder, ex-CPTO SuperAwesome acquired by Epic Games)
  • Proven product-market fit, blue-chip clients
  • Profitable, venture-backed, choosing our own path

Vision: "To unlock humanity’s potential by bringing personal and professional growth to every individual.”Mindstone is a revolutionary B2C & B2B learning technology company dedicated to transforming how individuals learn and grow. Our platform empowers learners to set clear objectives, engage with a vast pool of curated content, and track their skill development progress in a vibrant, supportive community. Our ethos is rooted in curiosity, autonomy, and the relentless pursuit of excellence, not perfection, with a culture that champions diversity and inclusion. We're big on play, humor, and brain teasers around here. On arcade nights in London, you'll catch us at Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution and Galaga. We love a good pet picture (feel free to send with your application) and always have each other’s backs, cheering one another on both in and outside of work. We are not just building a product; we are shaping the future of learning.

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