[Remote] Full-Stack Engineer I
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Formant is building the operating system for intelligent machines. They are seeking an ambitious early-career full-stack engineer to enhance the reliability and usability of their platform while working across the stack on real customer issues and core product development.
Responsibilities
- Investigate and resolve high‑priority production issues
- Debug across the stack with guidance from senior engineers
- Identify recurring issues and drive systemic fixes, not only one‑offs
- Build and improve features across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra)
- Improve documentation, runbooks, and onboarding paths for common scenarios
- Help build internal AI tooling (agents/chatbots) to handle common support workflows
- Improve logs, metrics, and diagnostics to make issues easier to detect and resolve
- Proactively reduce support load by making the product and tooling better
- Explore unfamiliar codebases or technologies
Skills
- 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience (internships, co-ops, and substantial projects count)
- Pragmatic: you can differentiate between 'ship the fix' and 'refactor the world'
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and software design
- Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding copilots, LLMs) to improve productivity and learning
- Comfortable working on 'unsexy' problems (legacy code, tricky edge cases) to earn leverage and context
- Communicative and calm under pressure when production issues arise
- Curious, pragmatic, and eager to learn quickly
- Takes ownership and follows through on problems
- You can show your work: a portfolio (GitHub, shipped projects, demos, write-ups) that lets us see your drive, energy, and how you think through real problems
Benefits
- Equity in a high-growth Series A startup
- Benefits and remote flexibility
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