Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Brightharbor

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Austin Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 20, 2025 Last posted March 20, 2025
Job description

About Bright Harbor

Bright Harbor helps people recover after natural disasters by providing expert guidance and innovative digital tools that streamline and accelerate the recovery process. We make disaster recovery faster, easier, and more affordable, empowering our clients to rebuild with confidence.

In just four months since our launch, we’ve supported hundreds of families and businesses, helping them navigate more than $400M in recovery spend effectively.

Position Overview

We're looking for an entrepreneurial, full-stack Staff Engineer to join our small team. We value speed, pragmatism, and flexibility. You will work closely with our CTO, engineers and PM to build our customer-facing and internal systems. You'll write (well-tested) frontend and backend code, integrate with various tools via APIs, and help shape the technical foundation of our product. We are still very early in our development efforts, so anyone who joins now will have a significant impact on how we build and scale.

The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, can self-direct, and likes talking to customers and other departments. Because we sell to survivors of natural disasters, our business is unpredictable. Every week will be different than the last and bring new challenges at a rapid pace.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

  • Build frontend and backend solutions to our customers' problems

  • Collaborate with our CTO and product/engineering team

  • Architect and scale our systems as we grow to 1,000s of customers

  • Manage cloud infrastructure (we use Fly.io) for our services

  • Support all users of our software and tools

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer

  • Expert knowledge of functional programming paradigms

  • Excellent writer and communicator

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure in Fly.io or AWS

  • Bonus: Experience with Event Sourcing

Why Join Bright Harbor?

  • Climate Adaptation Focused: Be part of a company working to address one of the most critical issues of our time—adapting our communities to climate change.

  • Impactful Work: Join a mission-driven team that’s making a tangible difference in people’s lives.

  • Performance Culture: Be part of a world-class team with a strong culture that values performance, integrity, and creativity.

  • Growth Opportunities: Play a key role in the company’s growth, with ample opportunities for career advancement.

About this role

Summary

Build and scale customer-facing and internal systems for disaster recovery.

Job title

Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Experience level

8+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Located in Austin, remote work not mentioned

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

full-stack engineeringfunctional programmingcloud infrastructureFly.ioAWS

Preferred skills

event sourcing

Specializations

full-stackcloud infrastructurefunctional programmingevent sourcing
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

On-site City