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Portex

Lead Full Stack Engineer

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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA
Senior level
The Lead Full Stack Engineer will partner with the CEO to drive technical vision, build SaaS features, mentor engineers, and manage projects.
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About Portex

Portex is building a procurement and payment operating system for the $4 trillion logistics industry - the backbone of the global economy. We’re building simple yet revolutionary freight procurement, payment and financing products so all businesses can realize pricing efficiency and transparency while navigating global trade.

Our founding team has backgrounds from Flexport, Uber, Motive, Plaid and Autodesk. We’ve raised an $8M+ seed round of funding from amazing VC firms including Susa Ventures, Footwork, Cowboy Ventures and Base10, and an incredible group of angels from founding teams at Uber, Affirm, Brex, Plaid, Cloudtrucks, Motive and more.


About the role

Portex is seeking an exceptional and highly driven Head of Engineering with a strong backend focus to join our team. This role will be a key partner to the CEO, instrumental in driving the technical vision and architecture of our platform as we rapidly scale. You will have a huge impact, getting in on the ground floor and playing a defining role in our future success. You will be a leader and you will actively code every day for the foreseeable future.

What you'll do

  • Partner directly with the CEO to advocate for the engineering team and act as a thought partner on product strategy
  • Work closely with Product and customers to deeply understand requirements and ensure problems are solved at the right level, drawing on your highly customer-centric approach
  • Plan and execute complex code migrations while managing ongoing customer demands
  • Envision and execute on the long-term vision for the platform's architecture
  • Build end-to-end SaaS features across the full tech stack with a focus on the backend
  • Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical mentorship to other engineers
  • Co-lead retrospectives with Product to drive continuous improvement across the eng team
  • Estimate work, set release targets, and lead standups/sprint planning to deliver against dates
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously while assessing priorities through prioritization skills
  • Manage team members and lead recruiting efforts for future team members

Qualifications

  • Proven track record of building new products from the ground up (0 to 1)

  • Experience working directly with and gathering insights from non-technical stakeholders

  • Natural leadership abilities with an instinct to step up, solve problems, and push those around you to level up

  • Exceptional communication skills to paint a vision, provide proactive updates, and escalate issues

  • Comfortable negotiating product roadmaps against business requirements

  • Entrepreneurial, extremely proactive mindset obsessed with building a company/startup

  • High emotional stability to keep a level head under stress

  • Internally motivated and driven to an exceptionally high personal bar

  • Open to flexing into informal Product Management responsibilities when needed

  • Able to prioritize and do deep work across multiple critical tasks/projects

  • Experience implementing AI or LLM’s into B2B workflows


Technical Skills
  • Deep expertise in Typescript, Node.js, architecting full-stack TypeScript apps

  • Solid skills with React, PostgreSQL, Redux, Prisma (nice to have)

  • Previous AWS experience (Pulumi a plus)

  • Experience implementing & driving engineering culture/best practices

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