Founding Full-Stack AI Engineer

About the Role

Tunepact is building an AI-powered platform that helps independent musicians understand, market, and grow every song they release.

Our flagship product, Song DNA, analyzes music and turns it into actionable insights, including song identity, audience positioning, marketing ideas, content opportunities, similar artists, and discoverable public song pages.

We are seeking a motivated Full-Stack Software Engineer to help develop and scale Tunepact’s web applications, AI-powered features, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems.

You will work closely with the Founder, product team, designers, and other engineers to take features from initial concept through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement. This role is well suited to someone who enjoys ownership, learns quickly, communicates proactively, and wants to grow with an early-stage technology startup.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this position means:

• Delivering reliable, user-ready features within agreed timelines
• Taking ownership of assigned projects from planning through production
• Communicating progress, risks, and blockers before they affect delivery
• Writing clean, secure, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the platform
• Contributing ideas that improve both the product and the development process
• Working consistently and collaboratively in a remote startup environment
• Growing into greater technical and product ownership as Tunepact expands

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full-stack web applications.
• Build responsive and user-friendly interfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Develop secure backend services and REST APIs using Node.js and related technologies.
• Design and maintain PostgreSQL databases, schemas, queries, and data integrations.
• Build and maintain containerized services using Docker.
• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot applications running on AWS and Google Cloud.
• Integrate third-party services, APIs, payment systems, analytics tools, and authentication platforms.
• Develop and improve AI-powered product features using services such as OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or similar technologies.
• Create and maintain prompts, structured AI outputs, validations, and AI workflows.
• Work with asynchronous processing, cloud storage, background jobs, and event-driven systems.
• Monitor application health, logs, performance, security, and cloud-resource usage.
• Investigate and resolve production issues in a timely and structured manner.
• Participate in technical planning, architecture discussions, code reviews, and product decisions.
• Collaborate with product and design team members to convert requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Break larger projects into clear milestones and provide realistic estimates.
• Write technical documentation for systems, APIs, deployment processes, and important engineering decisions.
• Follow secure development practices, including proper secrets management, access control, input validation, and data protection.
• Use Git-based workflows and contribute to improving CI/CD and deployment processes.
• Proactively communicate project status, technical risks, delays, and blockers.
• Support the continued development of Song DNA, artist dashboards, public song pages, marketing tools, analytics, fan-engagement features, and future Tunepact products.

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional software-development experience.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying production web applications used by real customers.
• Strong full-stack development experience across both frontend and backend systems.
• Professional experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience developing backend services using Node.js or a comparable technology.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming REST APIs.
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database.
• Hands-on experience using Docker for local development or production deployment.
• Experience deploying or maintaining applications on AWS, Google Cloud, or another major cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, application security, and API security.
• Experience working with Git, pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative development workflows.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to independently take a feature from requirements through production.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly in written and spoken English.
• Ability to work consistently and responsibly in a remote environment.
• Willingness to communicate blockers early and provide regular progress updates.
• Availability for agreed working-hour overlap with the Tunepact team.
• Commitment to a full-time position without undisclosed conflicting employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or other AI services into web applications.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, structured outputs, function calling, AI evaluation, or workflow automation.
• Experience with Python for AI services, data processing, or backend development.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, EC2, ECS, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, or EventBridge.
• Experience with Google Cloud services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or Vertex AI.
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container-orchestration systems.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Redis, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, vector databases, or background-job systems.
• Experience with event-driven or asynchronous application architectures.
• Experience with Stripe, subscription billing, or SaaS account-management systems.
• Understanding of SEO, AEO, analytics, performance optimization, or public content platforms.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Windsurf.
• Previous experience working at an early-stage startup or building a product from concept to production.
• Interest in music technology, creator platforms, marketing technology, or AI-powered SaaS products.

Personal Qualities

We are looking for someone who:

• Takes ownership and follows through on commitments
• Communicates honestly and proactively
• Works independently without requiring constant supervision
• Balances speed with quality and security
• Is comfortable working with evolving startup requirements
• Asks thoughtful questions before beginning development
• Focuses on solving user and business problems, not only completing tasks
• Learns new technologies quickly
• Accepts feedback professionally
• Documents important work and decisions
• Wants to grow with the company over the long term

Compensation and Growth

This position offers:

• $1,200–$1,800 USD in monthly cash compensation, depending on experience and qualifications
• Stock options as part of the compensation package
• Flexible remote work
• Direct collaboration with the Founder and product leadership
• Meaningful ownership of product features and technical systems
• Opportunities for increased responsibility and compensation based on performance and company growth
• The opportunity to help build an AI startup serving independent musicians worldwide

About Tunepact

Tunepact is developing an AI-powered ecosystem for independent musicians. Our products help artists better understand their music, identify audiences, create promotional content, improve song discoverability, organize marketing activities, and find new growth opportunities.

As an early engineering team member, your work will directly influence Tunepact’s products, technical foundation, development culture, and long-term success.

To apply, please submit your resume, LinkedIn profile, GitHub profile, portfolio, or examples of production applications you have helped build.