AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer (Portal Owner)

AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer (Portal Owner)

100% Remote

• Full-Time Independent Contractor
• Latin America-Based
• $5,000–$7,000 USD/month
• U.S. Eastern/Central Hours Overlap

Imagine being the one engineer who owns the product at the center of a fast-growing company.

Every improvement you ship makes the platform where accounting firms find and hire talent a little better than it was last week. Every AI feature you build puts real capability in front of real users. Every automation you create helps a 45-person team run like 150.

That's this role.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You'd be joining Cloud Accountant Staffing (CAS), a firm that places accountants into U.S. CPA firms. We're at roughly $12.5M in annual revenue, doubled in the last year, and on a plan to reach $100M by 2031. Our co-owners include one of the most-followed voices in the U.S. accounting profession, and our clients range from 5-person firms to some of the largest accounting firms in the world.

At the center of how we work is our portal, a marketplace-style platform built on Next.js and React where accounting firms find, review, and hire vetted talent. It's our biggest competitive advantage. It was built with our long-time development partner, who stays involved. Now we want one person in-house to own it and make it better every single day.

As our AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer, you inherit a working production codebase with real users and a long backlog of improvements the CEO has been collecting. You'll work through it, then keep going, shipping small iterations constantly with a direct line to the person who sets the priorities.

This is a product-ownership role. It is not a ticket queue, and it is not a short-term project. We are hiring for years.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• You're a senior full-stack engineer who is comfortable being the primary engineer on a product.

• You've found that one person with AI tools can do what a small team used to, and you've proven it.

• You can take a user complaint, a half-formed idea from the CEO, and a messy backlog and turn them into the right thing to build this week.

• You don't need a PM to write you a ticket.

• You write well and explain trade-offs clearly to non-engineers.

• You're all-in: one product, one client.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

• The Portal. Own it day to day. Work through the CEO's backlog in a production codebase with real users, shipping small daily iterations. You won't be alone: our development partner continues to support architecture, security, and overflow, so you have people to think with.

• The Candidate Side. Make it a true two-sided marketplace. Today the portal is built for firms. You'll design and build the candidate-facing side, where candidates apply, get vetted, build profiles, and move through the process inside the product.

• AI in the Product. Build it in, not around. Ship candidate matching, resume and profile parsing, vetting assistants, and LLM-driven workflows for firms and recruiters. Real features for real users, with the testing and monitoring habits that make them trustworthy.

• Business Automation. Then, automate the business. Once the portal is humming, the mandate widens to our recruiting funnel, weekly scorecard, HubSpot, and Slack, with agents and automations that let a 45-person team run like 150.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Roughly 6+ years as a full-stack engineer, shipping and maintaining production web applications (required)

• Comfort being the primary engineer on a product, with a partner agency behind you (required)

• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or equivalent, and the ability to show it live (required)

• Strong product thinking: you can turn feedback, ideas, and a backlog into clear priorities without a PM (required)

• Fluent English, written and spoken, including writing specs and docs (required)

• At least 4–5 hours of daily overlap with U.S. Eastern/Central hours (required)

• Availability for full-time, exclusive