Sharp Performance

Sharp Performance

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Culver City, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptNext.jsVue.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentCommunication

About the role

  • You'll set the architectural direction, write a meaningful share of the code yourself, and guide the output of a small team (1-2 direct reports to start, growing as the product proves itself).
  • You'll be hands-on in the codebase day-to-day, but you'll also be the person making sure what the squad ships is coherent, well-scoped, and actually moves the product forward.
  • If you want to be heads-down on a single component, this isn't the role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical design and architecture for a new product being built from scratch, making the early decisions that will shape it for years.
  • Build full-stack: own features end-to-end across the frontend (Next.js or Vue) and backend, including API design, data modeling, and infrastructure choices.
  • Mentor and manage 1-2 engineers - running meetings, giving feedback, unblocking them, and growing them as the team grows.
  • Partner closely with product and design to translate fuzzy problems into shippable scope, and push back when scope and reality don't match.
  • We are building.
  • About the role We're spinning up a new squad at Sharp Performance to build a 0-to-1 product, and we're looking for a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to be the technical anchor.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern frontend framework (Next.js or Vue).

Nice to have

  • Experience with our adjacent stack (analytics tooling, observability, feature flagging).
  • Have managed engineers directly before, even informally.
  • comfortable designing APIs, working with relational databases, and reasoning about performance and reliability.
  • Strong written and verbal communication - you can explain a technical decision to a PM and a junior engineer in the same Slack thread.
  • Nice to have Experience with our adjacent stack (analytics tooling, observability, feature flagging).

Benefits

  • We're Sharp Performance Sharp Performance is transforming mental wellness for those in high-demand professions, starting with public safety.
  • Our mission is to extend the service-life and health span of those who run toward danger: law enforcement, firefighters, and other frontline professionals.

Company info

  • We're spinning up a new squad at Sharp Performance to build a 0-to-1 product, and we're looking for a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to be the technical anchor.
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