AI-Native Full Stack Engineer (Django, react) - Fulltime - Overlap EST

Overview

Cloaked is a privacy-first identity company building consumer products that protect people's personal information at scale. We are an AI-native team that ships fast and operates lean. We are looking for Full Stack Engineers who can move fluently between a Django backend and the clients that sit on top of it — web and mobile alike.

This is a hands-on contract engagement, not a delineated-task role. The core of the job is wiring: taking a sophisticated Django backend and connecting it cleanly to a web or mobile client, owning both sides of the seam. Specific languages matter less than the ability to think clearly across the full stack and move quickly — with AI, strong engineers flex into new stacks fast.

What You'll Do

Backend Engineering
● Build and extend a complex Django backend — APIs, data models, and services that power consumer products.
● Own correctness and performance across backend boundaries, not just the happy path.

Client Integration
● Wire the backend to a web client (React) and/or a mobile client (Swift / Kotlin / React Native).
● Own the full request path end to end — from the data layer to the interface the user actually touches.

Full-Stack Ownership
● Ship features end to end, taking ambiguous product goals to working software with minimal direction.
● Flex across languages and stacks as the work demands; ramp quickly on unfamiliar parts of the system.

AI-Native Execution
● Use modern AI coding tools fluently to ship at high velocity across multiple workstreams.
● Run your own productivity harness — managing parallel agent streams and many concurrent tickets is the default, not the exception.

What You Bring

● Strong production experience with Django (or a comparable complex backend) and at least one client stack — web (React) or mobile (Swift, Kotlin, React Native).
● Daily fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a personal setup for working quickly across parallel tasks.
● Demonstrated fluency wiring backends to clients and owning the full path between them.
● A strong technical thinker who ramps into new languages and stacks quickly.
● Proven ability to hit the ground running with minimal onboarding and operate autonomously in ambiguity.
● Daily fluency with AI-assisted development tools and a personal setup for working quickly across parallel tasks.
● Exceptional written and verbal English communication.

Nice to Have

● Backend plus one or more mobile stacks (Swift and/or Kotlin) — strong full-stack-plus-mobile range is rare and highly valued.
● Experience in privacy, identity, security, fintech, or other high-compliance domains.
● Startup background where you owned features end to end.

Role Characteristics

● Contract engagement, time-and-materials; begins with a two-week trial.
● High autonomy, high accountability — top-percentile execution expected.
● AI-native by default; ramps quickly and flexes across the stack as the product requires.
● East Coast time-zone overlap with the team.