We started Lingo.dev at a hackathon and, after winning the best dev tool award, we just kept building. It evolved into a developer-loved toolkit with hundreds of active users, 7,000 weekly CLI runs, 5,000 GitHub stars, and over 100 million translated words. We've graduated from the world's best tech accelerator (Y Combinator) and raised venture funding to continue building developer tools that must exist but don't yet.

We're a small, fully remote team of senior engineers who like to work hard on interesting problems. We value computer science craft over corporate politics and love building tools for developers - including ourselves. Recently we started getting more feature requests than we can ship, so we're excited to expand the team.

Please don't use AI to apply. We're an AI-native company, so we'll notice if you do. We want to know how you think and write.

Job Functions

As part of a team of senior engineers, design, develop, and grow the Lingo.dev products

Web applications - Routing, navigation, onboarding flows, user experience, performance

Open source tools - CLI, webpack/vite plugins

Backend APIs - encapsulation, API design, security

Database layer (PostgreSQL)

Integrations - with 3rd party systems

AI agents

Take full ownership of features from design to deployment: draft technical designs, review with founders + the team, implement end-to-end with tests and documentation

3 sprints of product roadmap work, 1 cooldown sprint (customer feature requests, improvements, bug fixes)

Weekly Demo Days with the rest of the team

Requirements

Built an own app, or side project that others have used - could be a tool for a friend, a small product, an open-source package, anything real people relied on

5+ years of production experience with TypeScript and Node.js

Expert React knowledge - Suspense-first patterns, skeleton loaders, loading states

Experience with SSR, CSR, and SSG

Deep expertise with React routing libraries

Built or contributed to design systems / component libraries used by others

Experience designing navigation, onboarding flows, and user journeys

Backend experience with Node.js (Express.js or similar) and PostgreSQL

Experience designing production-ready APIs

Experience with authentication and authorization systems

CS degree or equivalent - algorithms, data structures, system design

Prior remote work experience in distributed teams

Available 7-10am San Francisco time daily

Fluent English

Deep knowledge of AI coding tools and workflows - you use them daily and know how to get the most out of them

Optional Skills

Experience with Cloudflare platform (Workers, etc.)

Experience with Row-Level Security (RLS) in Supabase/PostgreSQL

Experience with background job workflows

Built an AI agent before

Contributed to a design system or React component library used by other teams

Experience with observability and monitoring

Open source contributions

Speaking multiple languages is a plus

You love Remix, React Router, TanStack Router, or TanStack Start

Benefits

Opportunity to work with latest, cutting-edge technologies

Work directly with users using what you build every day

Small team working directly with founders

Be a part of open-source community

Occasional travel to meet the team in person

Conference and learning budget

Flexible working hours

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Interview Process

Screening Call (Technical/Cultural Fit)

Live Coding / Technical Project: Evaluating CS fundamentals and architectural depth (algorithms, system design)

Final Deep Dive (System Design & Partnership)

After passing the interviews, there's a one-month paid trial period. It's intense - we'll work closely together on real features to make sure we work well together.

Do Not Apply If

You are looking for passive, hands-off remote work with minimal team interaction

Uncertainty makes you uncomfortable - you prefer detailed specs over figuring things out as you go

You are unwilling to prioritize customer needs over your preferred patterns or tools