Staff Full Stack Engineer

About this role

GoodParty.org is looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to help scale frontier AI to empower tens of thousands of Independent candidates and elected officials who are putting people over parties. This is a role for an engineer who nerds out about the latest in AI, tests what actually works, and turns the best ideas into durable, high-impact features for our users.

You will lead technical projects without needing to be a people manager: shaping architecture, setting patterns, building across the stack, and pushing our AI-native products into the hands of civic leaders who are solving real problems for their communities.

About GoodParty.org:

A majority of voters, including more than half of Millennials and Gen Z, say that neither major party represents them. GoodParty.org is the solution.

We're on a mission to make people matter more than money in our democracy by empowering Independent candidates to run, win, and serve.

Since 2024, 13,000+ Independent candidates have won their races across all 50 states using our tools, training, and support. Our AI-powered platform provides free tools to launch and run campaigns, connect with voters, and serve their communities effectively — without needing a political party or big donors. What our users have in common is that they prioritize people over parties and community over special interests. We're not a political party, we're a platform and a movement to democratize democracy.

Founded by serial entrepreneur Farhad Mohit ($1B+ in exits, including Flipagram/TikTok and Shopzilla), GoodParty.org is building solutions so we can have a truly representative democracy where society's biggest problems are solved.

What you'll do:

- Own features end-to-end across the stack — from the Next.js frontend through the NestJS backend and into the Python AI services that power them.

- Set the frontend quality bar for AI-native product surfaces, defining component patterns and UI interaction models for agent-driven, conversational experiences.

- Embed in a product squad as a key voice, partnering with product and design to take features from prototype to production.

- Build and maintain the integration layer between the user-facing product and our Civic Agent Platform — owning the contracts, data shapes, and API boundaries that connect what users see to what agents compute.

- Contribute to the evaluation and quality layer for user-facing AI features, including eval pipelines, golden datasets, and CI gates that catch model failures before they reach users.

- Raise the engineering bar by turning repeated problems and slowdowns into shared infrastructure, reusable patterns, stronger tooling, and better development practices for the team.

- Lead technical conversations across the stack with enough fluency in infrastructure, deployment, and observability to make sensible tradeoffs and escalate the right things.

- Report to the CTO and partner closely with our Principal Engineer and squad Tech Leads.

Who we're looking for:

- You're up for the audacious challenge of driving money out of politics and democratizing democracy.

- You thrive in a remote, fast-paced environment, balancing strategic thinking with a strong bias toward action.

- You bring 10+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years at Staff level or equivalent scope owning full stack product delivery.

- You are genuinely full stack — comfortable and productive in Next.js/React on the frontend and NestJS/TypeScript on the backend, and you don't have a preference layer you silently avoid.

- You walk the talk by using AI-native approaches (e.g. AI writes the code) yourself for coding, including Claude Code, Cursor, and MCPs.

- You have deep working knowledge of building cloud infrastructure (especially on AWS) and using infrastructure-as-code tools.

- You have shipped production LLM-powered features as a full stack engineer and understand the UI challenges of agentic systems: latency, streaming, uncertainty, and failure states.

- You have working familiarity with agent patterns — Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI tool use, LangChain, or equivalent — sufficient to design frontend and API contracts that serve them.

- You treat staying current as part of the job, not a side hobby. You keep up with where AI engineering is heading, you deep dive into the technology behind headlines and big claims, and fold the durable parts into your work.

- You have contributed to eval pipelines, golden datasets, or CI quality gates for LLM features.

- You've shipped features where content safety and output quality were not optional, and you design UIs that handle model errors and edge cases gracefully rather than silently.

- You bring strong opinions loosely held and expect engineering excellence.

- You communicate clearly, directly, and respectfully, and you're open to delivering and receiving candid feedback that helps the team grow.

Bonus if:

- You've shipped LLM features in high-trust or regulated domains where UI-level error handling and responsible output presentation were explicitly designed, not bolted on.

- You have experience building agent-facing UI patterns: streaming responses, structured tool results surfaced progressively, and confidence or uncertainty signals presented to non-technical users.

- You've contributed to open-source projects or developer communities.

- You have professional or volunteer experience in civic tech, democracy reform, political campaigns, or social impact initiatives.

- You're tired of sitting on the sidelines while democracy fails to meet its potential — and you're ready to act.

Why you should work at GoodParty.org http://GoodParty.org:

- Join a passionate team with diverse political views focused on one mission. Our values are: People First. Direct, Open, and Honest. Empowered Ownership. Iterate for Impact. Fun Is Fuel.

- We're a Public Benefit Corporation that prioritizes social impact over profit.

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