Senior Full Stack Engineer, The Cruise Globe

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals or equivalent practical experience
• JavaScript/TypeScript and React experience
• Strong Python skills for backend and API development
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and running systems on AWS
• Experience working with (or introducing) solid testing practices
• Excellent communication skills and confidence working directly with founders
• Some exposure to mobile development (React Native, Flutter, or native)

Desirable

• We’re looking for a talented Senior Full-Stack Engineer to become our first in-house technical hire, and should be considered as a founding engineer role with a huge impact on the future of The Cruise Globe
• This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join at an early stage and shape the technical foundations of the business, and create our future. This is an excellent opportunity to shape process and framework. We’re looking for someone who finds this exciting rather than intimidating, and who enjoys building structure as they build product
• You’ll report directly to our CEO, with strategic support from our fractional CTO, and work closely with our founder, agency development partners, and data team. This is a hands-on, senior engineering role, not people management. You’ll lead by building, setting standards, and making smart technical decisions that will scale with the business
• If you’re ambitious, highly technical, and motivated by ownership and impact, this role offers the chance to grow into a long-term technology leadership position as the company scales
• Develop high-performance, user-facing features using React, Next.js, and TypeScript
• Design and build backend services and APIs using Python (FastAPI)
• Architect clean, scalable REST APIs
• Design and optimise PostgreSQL / Supabase schemas for performance and growth
• Deploy, maintain, and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Own CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions
• Establish engineering best practices around testing, documentation, and code quality

• We respect the time of all candidates that apply for this role, so we are completely transparent about the stages in the interview process. All interviews are held remotely
• 1st Stage: 30 minute call with Hiring Manager
• 2nd Stage: 30 minute call with Founder/CEO
• 3rd Stage: 60 minute Live Technical Assessment with CTO
• 4th Stage: 60 minute Paired Programming Assessment with CTO