Senior Full Stack Engineer, LeafLink
Frontend Leaning
$115-170k
Wholesale marketplace for legal cannabis
Be an early applicant
Wholesale marketplace for legal cannabis
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$115-170k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide growing cannabis businesses with the tools they need to manage their businesses more effectively and accelerate growth.
Role
Who you are
- It’s an ideal fit for a frontend-heavy engineer who wants to own features all the way down to the service layer
- 5+ years working in rich, complex, and ever-evolving front-end user experiences, building production web applications
- Deep experience with Vue.js, preferably Vue 3 and the Composition API, and strong proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
- Professional experience building backend services and APIs in Python
- Experience with state management patterns and libraries such as Pinia, Vuex, or equivalent, and strong understanding of component architecture and design systems
- Experience integrating applications with REST, GraphQL, or event-driven APIs
- Strong testing experience, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Understanding of frontend performance optimization, bundle analysis, caching, lazy loading, and Core Web Vitals
- Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG and semantic HTML
- Experience working with relational databases
- Hands-on professional experience using AI coding assistants (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) as part of your regular workflow
- Experience working in agile environments with cross-functional teams, with proven ability to lead technical initiatives with minimal supervision
- Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) a plus
- An interest in the cannabis industry and/or the LeafLink brand
What the job involves
- LeafLink is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer, frontend-leaning, who is passionate about building rich, complex, large-scale user experiences at a rapid pace
- This role will contribute heavily to the buildout and iteration of LeafLink’s existing and emerging product surfaces — owning complex frontend features while also building the Python services behind them
- As LeafLink gears up to tackle a large-scale platform overhaul, this role helps shape both the interface and the APIs that power it
- AI-assisted development is part of our daily workflow at LeafLink
- We use tools like Claude across prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation, and we expect our engineers to leverage them fluently — moving faster while owning the correctness, security, and quality of everything that ships
- Design, build, and maintain scalable frontend applications using Vue 3, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript tooling
- Own complex features from technical design through production release — UI, API, and the Python services behind them
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Python to support product features
- Build reusable components, patterns, and frontend architecture that improve developer velocity
- "mention the word grass in your application"
- Improve application performance, accessibility, responsiveness, and reliability
- Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into high-quality user experiences
- Write high-quality tests across the stack using tools such as Vitest, Vue Test Utils, Playwright, and pytest
- Participate in code reviews and mentor engineers on frontend best practices
- Contribute to CI/CD improvements, observability, monitoring, and release quality
- Help maintain strong standards around security, privacy, and safe handling of user data
- Use AI-powered development tools, including Claude, to accelerate software design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review
- Apply strong engineering judgment when reviewing AI-generated solutions, validating them for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and alignment with established architectural standards
- Craft effective prompts and provide relevant technical context to help AI tools produce accurate, production-ready code and documentation
- Use AI tools responsibly, ensuring that proprietary data, customer information, credentials, and other sensitive material are handled in accordance with company security policies
- Share effective AI workflows, reusable prompts, and best practices that improve engineering productivity and quality across the team, and evaluate emerging AI development tools worth adopting
Our take
Cannabis is the most widely produced and consumed drug in the world, but until relatively recently this market remained underground. An increasing number of US states, however, are opting to legalize cannabis, opening up a highly lucrative market opportunity that businesses are looking to capitalize on.
LeafLink has cemented its position as one of the major supply chain players in the growing legal cannabis market, connecting suppliers with retailers through its wholesale eCommerce marketplace. Currently, it commands over half of the US cannabis market, as well as having strong VC backing, and surpassing the $1B transaction threshold.
Since 2016, it has helped over 12,000 companies in 37 states build relationships, process payments, and ship products to retail, and it isn't slowing down any time soon. The company acquired Leaf Trade and Dama Financial, putting it in an even greater leadership position within the cannabis industry. Now the company looks set for an even greater future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
74% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Jul 2021
$40m
SERIES C
Total funding: $229m
Company benefits
- Healthcare, dnetal, and vision coverage
- 401k plan
- Company equity
- Unlimited PTO + 5 days of Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Learning and development stipend
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Ashwin Raj
(CEO)Previously President & CEO at ezCater,Executive Vice President at Lyft,Director at Amazon Payments and was the Vice President of Global Products at Visa.
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