Senior Software Engineer

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Position:Senior Software Engineer – Productivity AppSchedule:Full-time│40 hours/week │ Monday–Friday EST Business HoursLocation:Fully remote (Preference for Cape Town, but open to global candidates)Salary:2800 - 4000 USDper monthFinal offer depends on client decision, interview results, and experience level

About the Client:

Our client is a content creator and entrepreneur building a new technology product focused on productivity, planning, and personal goal achievement. The company is developing a productivity application designed to help users connect their day-to-day tasks and priorities with their larger, long-term goals. Rather than operating as a traditional standalone task manager, the product aims to create a stronger connection between what users want to accomplish long term and how they spend their time each day. They are seeking a Software Engineer to help build, improve, and scale the application as it moves through development.

Role Summary:

The Software Engineer will be responsible for hands-on development of a new productivity application combining planning, task management, and long-term goal tracking.

This is a highly hands-on engineering position requiring someone who can take product concepts and translate them into reliable, scalable software. The engineer will work closely with the founder to understand the product vision, evaluate technical requirements, build features, solve technical challenges, and contribute to architectural decisions as the application evolves.

While modern AI development tools may be used to increase productivity, the company is specifically seeking a candidate with strong underlying engineering knowledge and proven project experience. Candidates must be capable of understanding, reviewing, debugging, and improving the code they produce rather than relying primarily on AI-generated solutions.

Role Responsibilities:

Application Development
* Build and maintain features for a new productivity and planning application
* Translate product requirements and ideas into functional software
* Develop features connecting daily tasks and activities with longer-term goals
* Build intuitive workflows around planning, task management, prioritization, and progress tracking
* Contribute across the application based on product and development priorities
* Develop clean, maintainable, and scalable code
Product & Feature Development
* Work closely with the founder to translate the product vision into technical requirements
* Evaluate feature ideas from both a technical and user-experience perspective
* Help determine the most effective way to implement new functionality
* Build prototypes and production-ready features
* Iterate quickly based on product feedback and user needs
* Identify technical limitations or risks before they become larger development issues
Software Architecture
* Contribute to architectural decisions as the application grows
* Help establish scalable development patterns and technical standards
* Evaluate tradeoffs between development speed, maintainability, performance, and scalability
* Design systems capable of supporting future product functionality
* Recommend appropriate technologies and technical approaches when needed
Testing, Debugging & Quality
* Test new features before deployment
* Troubleshoot bugs and technical issues across the application
* Diagnose root causes rather than relying on temporary fixes
* Review and improve existing code when necessary
* Maintain strong standards around application reliability and performance
* Help establish appropriate testing and QA practices
AI-Assisted Development
* Leverage AI coding tools where they genuinely improve development speed and productivity
* Critically review and validate AI-generated code before implementation
* Debug and modify generated solutions independently
* Recognize when AI-generated approaches are technically inappropriate or inefficient
* Maintain engineering quality regardless of whether AI tools are used during development
* AI tools should enhance the candidate's engineering abilities, not replace them.
Technical Documentation
* Document important architecture, features, integrations, and technical decisions
* Maintain clear development documentation as the application evolves
* Ensure future developers can understand and contribute to the codebase
* Communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders
Requirements:
* 2–5 years of professional software engineering or software development experience
* Proven experience building and shipping real software products or applications
* Strong understanding of core software engineering principles
* Experience developing production-quality applications
* Strong understanding of application architecture and software design
* Ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code
* Strong debugging and technical problem-solving skills
* Experience working with databas