[Remote] Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forerunner is a company dedicated to building intelligent software that enhances the operations of government and regulated industries. They are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join their Core Platform team, where the role involves implementing features that improve community resilience through innovative software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Gather around the campfire. Engineering, product, design, and customer success aren't siloed teams — we build together. You'll hear feedback from the people who use what you ship, and that context shapes what comes next
• Drive projects from ambiguity to delivery. You'll get a problem and a goal, not a step-by-step plan. We trust our engineers to break down complexity, make smart tradeoffs, and keep things moving
• Work with the best tools, not just the best people. We're all-in on AI-assisted development — Cursor, Claude Code, and whatever comes next. If you've already used AI to plan and execute projects from a spec or scaffold out entire features, you'll fit right in
• Build the whole thing. You'll own features from database modeling to pixel-perfect UI — no tossing work over the wall to "the other team." New API endpoint in the morning, polished frontend by the afternoon? That's a Wednesday here
• Ship constantly, and ship things that matter. This isn't a maintenance gig. Roughly 80% of your time goes toward new capabilities our customers are asking for, with the rest spent making the systems underneath faster, more reliable, and easier to work in
• Own what you ship. The people who build the system are the best ones to keep it healthy. We run a fair on-call rotation and invest heavily in keeping alerts meaningful and manageable. We treat reliability as a craft — not a chore
• Raise the bar for everyone. How we build matters as much as what we build. You'll help shape our engineering culture — improving our processes, refining our tech stack, and mentoring teammates along the way

Skills

• 5+ years of product engineering experience
• Full-stack fluency with TypeScript, React
• Strong SQL and database design instincts
• Experience building and shipping features that real users depend on
• Ability to take unclear requirements and deliver complex features independently
• Familiarity with CI/CD, testing frameworks, and developer tooling
• Experience with mentorship, code reviews, and sound technical decision-making
• Permanent residency or citizenship required
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with containerization
• Experience with PostGIS or geospatial tech
• Experience with ETL pipelines
• Experience in government/climate tech

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health/vision/dental coverage
• A 401k plan
• One expensed lunch per week
• A quarterly wellness reimbursement so that you can have flexibility in defining what “health” means to you
• Schedule flexibility
• Learning opportunities to help all its team members expand their skills

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