[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, helping companies deploy and scale fleets of robots. They are seeking an ambitious early-career full-stack engineer to enhance the reliability and usability of their platform, focusing 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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