Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Who you are

• You have 5+ years building software and have shipped products end to end, not just tickets.
• You have worked at a startup where the job was whatever needed doing that week.
• You write TypeScript and Node without hesitation and you are comfortable in React.
• You have pulled data out of other systems, through APIs or scraping, and you know what breaks: rate limits, auth, blocks, and dirty data.
• You live in Claude Code or Codex, and you have opinions about where those tools help and where they do not.
• You have real things you've built outside of work, projects we can actually open and try, backed up by an active GitHub.
• You speak and write fluent English, work without supervision, and keep a small team in the loop without being asked.

Projects

Puente Talent Partners connects top Latin American professionals with growing US companies. This role is for one of our US clients, and you would be joining their team directly while being supported by Puente through the hiring process. Our client is a venture studio, and one of the companies in their portfolio is the number one producer of scrapers on Apify. They build and run software startups, plus the internal systems the whole portfolio runs on. The team is small, ships fast, and has several products live at once. You will join a lean engineering team and report to the founder. You will have interns reporting to you from day one and a direct say in hiring as the team grows. The pace is fast, the products are real, and you will move between scaling existing revenue-generating scrapers, building new internal tools, and wiring together APIs to automate go-to-market work.

About the role

You will grow the products that already make money and build the next ones. Some weeks that means scaling a scraper product with real customers on it, some weeks a new internal tool, some weeks wiring APIs together so the go-to-market team stops doing something by hand. You work directly with the founder on what to build. How it gets built is yours: put something small in front of real users, see if they want it, then build it properly.

What you'll own

• Grow and scale the scraper products running on Apify, in reliability, coverage, and revenue.
• Build new products across the portfolio, from database schema through the interface people actually use.
• Wire third-party APIs into automations that drive go-to-market work: outreach, enrichment, and reporting.
• Work inside AI coding agents daily and set the standard for how the rest of the team uses them.
• Design and query PostgreSQL schemas with Prisma, and keep the data clean at volume.

What to expect

Here is what to expect after you apply

1. You will get an email from Puente with a short online assessment and a quick grammar check.
2. You will record three short video answers so we can see how you communicate.
3. If it looks like a fit, our recruiter sets up an interview.
4. Shortlisted candidates are introduced to the US client team for final interviews.

This is a full-time independent contractor role at $2,000 - $3,000 USD per month, working Monday through Friday 9 AM to 6 PM CT. You will work directly with the founder and have interns reporting to you from day one with input on future hires. The role is fully remote. You will use AI coding tools daily, work across multiple live products, and ship fast in a small team that values demonstrated demand before heavy builds.

Bonus points

Bonus points

• You have published an Actor on Apify or shipped on a similar marketplace.
• You have taken a product from early traction to real scale.
• You have worked inside a venture studio, agency, or holding company with several products running at once.
• You have run end-to-end tests with Playwright.
• You have mentored or managed engineers, or you want to.

What success looks like

• You have shipped work to production across at least two different products in your first 90 days.
• You have made a measurable improvement to one of the scraper products, in reliability, coverage, or revenue.
• You ship on a predictable cadence across several products without dropping threads.
• You get real output from the interns under you and help hire the engineers who come next.