Founding Full-Stack AI Engineer

About the Role Tunepact is building an AI-powered platform that helps independent musicians understand, market, and grow every song they release. Our flagship product, Song DNA, analyzes music and turns it into actionable insights, including song identity, audience positioning, marketing ideas, content opportunities, similar artists, and discoverable public song pages. We are seeking a motivated Full-Stack Software Engineer to help develop and scale Tunepact's web applications, AI-powered features, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems. You will work closely with the Founder, product team, designers, and other engineers to take features from initial concept through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys ownership, learns quickly, communicates proactively, and wants to grow with an early-stage technology startup. What Success Looks LikeSuccess in this position means: Delivering reliable, user-ready features within agreed timelinesTaking ownership of assigned projects from planning through productionCommunicating progress, risks, and blockers before they affect deliveryWriting clean, secure, maintainable, and well-documented codeImproving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the platformContributing ideas that improve both the product and the development processWorking consistently and collaboratively in a remote startup environmentGrowing into greater technical and product ownership as Tunepact expandsResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full-stack web applications.Build responsive and user-friendly interfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.Develop secure backend services and REST APIs using Node.js and related technologies.Design and maintain PostgreSQL databases, schemas, queries, and data integrations.Build and maintain containerized services using Docker.Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications running on AWS and Google Cloud.Integrate third-party services, APIs, payment systems, analytics tools, and authentication platforms.Develop and improve AI-powered product features using services such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or similar technologies.Create and maintain prompts, structured AI outputs, validations, and AI workflows.Work with asynchronous processing, cloud storage, background jobs, and event-driven systems.Monitor application health, logs, performance, security, and cloud-resource usage.Investigate and resolve production issues in a timely and structured manner.Participate in technical planning, architecture discussions, code reviews, and product decisions.Collaborate with product and design team members to convert requirements into practical technical solutions.Break larger projects into clear milestones and provide realistic estimates.Write technical documentation for systems, APIs, deployment processes, and important engineering decisions.Follow secure development practices, including proper secrets management, access control, input validation, and data protection.Use Git-based workflows and contribute to improving CI/CD and deployment processes.Proactively communicate project status, technical risks, delays, and blockers.Support the continued development of Song DNA, artist dashboards, public song pages, marketing tools, analytics, fan-engagement features, and future Tunepact products.Required QualificationsAt least 3 years of professional software-development experience.Demonstrated experience building and deploying production web applications used by real customers.Strong full-stack development experience across both frontend and backend systems.Professional experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.Experience developing backend services using Node.js or a comparable technology.Experience designing, building, and consuming REST APIs.Practical experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database.Hands-on experience using Docker for local development or production deployment.Experience deploying or maintaining applications on AWS, Google Cloud, or another major cloud platform.Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, application security, and API security.Experience working with Git, pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative development workflows.Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.Ability to independently take a feature from requirements through production.Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly in written and spoken English.Ability to work consistently and responsibly in a remote environment.Willingness to communicate blockers early and provide regular progress updates.Availability for agreed working-hour overlap with the Tunepact team.Commitment to a full-time position without undisclosed conflicting employment.Preferred QualificationsExperience integrating OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or other AI services into web applications.Understanding of prompt engineering, structured outpu