Senior Founding Engineer

We are the 1st Hub for Developers! Our motto is “From Developers to Developers”! Our vision is to provide real career opportunities for candidates that want to take the next step in their career. Code.Career is the first process that you will speak with developers (only!) and tech (freak) experts!

About the job

Our client is a modern Church Management Software (ChMS) on a mission to equip churches with the tools they need to thrive. After a year of rapid growth, they’re at a critical juncture where a strong engineering team can be the difference between good and outstanding results. They’re looking for a Senior Founding Engineer with a doer attitude, love of state-of-the-art engineering practices, and the pragmatism required to deliberately break them when the need arises.

Our client is backed by a venture builder with a track record of producing some of Greece’s most successful scaleups (including industry-leading products). Working at a venture-backed company thus combines the upside, autonomy, and fast pace of startups with the security, resources, and guidance of a scale-up.

What You’ll Do

• Lead development across the full stack using Node.js, Vue.js, React and AWS
  
• Address customer pains with technical solutions that are proportionate to the value alleviating them will generate
  
• Break these solutions into deliverable increments that fit the budget that Product sets
  
• Balance delivering non-scalable solutions to unproven problems with building robust, scalable, and performant solutions after they are validated
  
• Make architectural decisions and improve how software is built
  
• Improve performance, stability, and scalability
  
• Mentor junior engineers and support team growth
  
• Review code and raise the quality bar
• Contribute to documentation and internal processes

Mindset

• You believe that anything that doesn’t generate value is waste
  
• You prefer being given problems to solve and the freedom to address them however you see fit within given constraints
  
• You dislike exhaustive specifications that leave no room for creativity
  
• You care deeply about your craft (clean git history, clear naming, minimal bloat) but are willing to break your own rules when it is deliberate and justified
  
• You are comfortable shipping non-functional code for experiments such as fake door tests
  
• You prefer real customer feedback over perfect implementations that no one uses
  
• You have an extreme ownership mentality: nothing is “someone else’s problem”
  
• You are customer-obsessed
• You are in it for the long term and want to own a piece of the upside

Who You Are

• At least 2 years of experience in a product company following modern engineering practices, or 4+ years total including 2+ years leading a tech team in a traditional or consulting environment
  
• Experience with Node.js / Express
  
• Experience with at least one modern frontend framework (Vue preferred)
  
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  
• Experience with REST APIs
  
• Experience with testing practices (unit, integration, e2e), CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring
  
• Hands-on experience debugging production issues and preventing them
  
• Ability to define technical architectures and challenge design decisions
• Experience deploying and monitoring applications in production

Nice to Have

• Product- and business-driven sensibilities in UX
  
• Experience with third-party integrations
• Experience with LLMs
  

What They Offer

• Meaningful stock options
  
• Primarily on-site working model
  
• Competitive base salary
  
• Meal voucher
  
• Parental support
  
• Private health insurance
  
• Personal training budget
  
• Fitness nutrition coaching
  
• Personalized on-site fitness & yoga sessions and training programs
  
• Foreign language courses
  
• Masterclasses, workshops, and guest talks
  
• Parking and commuting support