Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Programmatic SEO + Lead Gen)

About the role

A small, profitable lead-generation company publishes public car-crash records online, delivering qualified injury leads to law firms in Texas, California and Virginia. The founder built the first version of the platform with AI coding tools and is looking for the first and only engineer. You take over the codebase, data pipeline, infrastructure and design, and own them end to end, working directly with the founder and the media buying team.

Key responsibilities

• The website: Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind 4, Postgres, MapLibre, with millions of pages, performance, caching and uptime.
• SEO infrastructure: sitemaps, crawl budget, indexation, schema.org, Core Web Vitals and Search Console monitoring.
• Lead capture and delivery: forms, validation, consent capture, webhooks to the CRM and delivery monitoring.
• Paid media tracking and landing pages: GTM, GA4, Google Ads and Meta conversions, call tracking and A/B tests.
• Design: you design the site, landing pages and lead flow yourself.
• Data pipeline: Python 3.12, Postgres 16 with PostGIS, a CLI with adapters for 11 state and city data sources, refreshed nightly.
• Infrastructure: AWS ECS, RDS, CloudFront, Route 53, S3, GitHub Actions, backups, monitoring, cost control and on-call duty.
• Compliance: implementing attorney rules on disclosures, consent and data handling and keeping an audit trail.

Required profile

• 5+ years shipping production web apps, at least 2 with React and TypeScript on a server-rendered framework (Next.js preferred).
• Production Postgres with tens of millions of rows, indexing, query plans, migrations and backups.
• Personal ownership of technical SEO and site architecture for a database-driven site with 50,000+ indexed pages, with Search Console data.
• Conversion tracking setup and debugging (GTM, GA4, Google Ads or Meta pixel, Conversions API).
• Ability to read and modify Python and SQL, and to deploy and operate on AWS (or GCP or Azure) in production.
• Fluent English, 9am to 5pm US Central time, Monday to Friday, remote.
• Nice to have: programmatic SEO, lead generation or legal marketing experience, PostGIS, AWS ECS/RDS/CloudFront, GoHighLevel, Playwright, and experience as the first engineer at a small company.

What we offer

• Full-time independent contractor, paid monthly in USD, reviewed at 6 and 12 months.
• 40 hours a week, remote, with 15 days paid time off per year.
• You bring your own machine; the company pays for the tools and accounts you need.

Apply through the company's careers questionnaire, stating your expected monthly rate.