About the role

Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Product

Overview

Build end-to-end product features at Railway, from UI dashboard components to backend orchestration. This is a high-impact role with direct influence on company culture, trajectory, and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Build features end-to-end: UI development in the dashboard through orchestrating workflows with microservices using Temporal
Craft intuitive interfaces that allow users to work with powerful computing paradigms, collaborating with the design team
Build TypeScript + GraphQL APIs with strong data modeling guarantees for internal and external users
Write Engineering Requirement Documents to guide features from conception through implementation and success monitoring
Contribute to open-source repositories (CLI, Nixpacks) using Rust

Example Projects

Rebuilding logging infrastructure to support 1B logs/day (ClickHouse and observability UI)
Building Git for infrastructure to track project evolution
Creating tools for building user code into deployable images using Nix packages
Visualizing project infrastructure on 2D canvas interfaces
Implementing deployment migration with volumes across regions using Temporal
Building a marketplace for reusable infrastructure components

Requirements

Ability to autonomously lead, design, and implement great product experiences from front to back
Strong understanding of frontend architecture for building interactivity-rich data fetching, mutation, and rendering systems
Experience managing complex asynchronous backend jobs (build/deploy pipelines)
Desire to own the entire project development process: research, planning, implementation, and monitoring
Great written and verbal communication skills for async collaboration
Willingness to learn or experience with Rust

About the Team

Distributed globally with high ownership and passion for excellence
Small team (21 people) serving hundreds of thousands of users
High agency role with significant ambiguity requiring ownership mindset
Always something happening; expects diligence about work-life boundaries in global timezone context

About Railway

Railway is a platform that makes software engineers more productive by providing powerful tools for building and deploying applications. The company focuses on making tooling more accessible and aims to create an operating system for builders through strong interfacing paradigms.

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