Full-Stack Engineer

If you want to be part of a growing small business that's building with AI and shipping fast, you'll like it here.

If you're tired of being one of a hundred engineers maintaining a service you didn't design, this is the opposite. You own the whole stack. You pick your tools. Your work ships in days, not quarters.

About:
The Mousepad Company is a small US-based DTC brand. We make premium gaming and desk mousepads, printed in-house in California. The team is lean and the owner is hands-on. We ship constantly.

The job:
You are the owner's technical right hand. Build and maintain our internal app (OPPY) and our customer-facing creator studio (MPCO Studio). You are the only software person on the team. You ship features, integrations, dashboards, and automations: whatever the business needs that week. We do not have a Jira full of cleanly-scoped tickets waiting for you. You help us figure out what to build next.

What you do:

Phase 1, OPPY (first 30 to 60 days):
Take a list of feature requests and ship them. Make the app more efficient, then faster, then more beautiful, in that order. Examples of what we'll ask for: "I click this button and this data shows up." "This page loads in 4 seconds, get it under 1." "This workflow takes 5 clicks, get it to 2."

Phase 2, MPCO Studio:
Custom mousepad designer web app. Think Figma but exporting creates a print file. More details to be discussed later.

Ongoing:
Slack custom commands. Notion to Shopify integrations. ---------- to Creator Studio integrations. Financial dashboards. Helping the team use AI better. Internal tools that do not exist yet. When you run out of assigned work, you find what is slow or broken and fix it.

Compensation:
Monthly salary, paid via Wise. Long-term role. Quarterly performance review with potential raises for top performers.

What we need from you:

You ship fast and constantly. Your last side project shipped in a weekend, not a year.
You live in modern AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, similar) and have opinions on which is best for what.
You are a generalist. You can build a Slack bot in the morning, debug a Shopify webhook at lunch, and ship a financial dashboard in the afternoon.
You read a stack you have never used and ship in it within a week.
You self-direct. Nobody assigns you tickets. You find what matters and do it.
Strong written English.
Willing to work West Coast US hours.

Nice to have:

Built something with creator economy or affiliate program tech before.
Built a design canvas or image-generation tool before.
Shopify, Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Railway on your résumé.
Slack bots, ---------- bots, or Notion integrations on your résumé.

A note up front: AI is a tool you live in for this role, so we don't ban it in your application. But generic AI-generated answers are filtered out immediately. Use AI to help you express yourself, not to do the thinking.

To apply, send:

Ship proof.
Link us to something you built recently, alone. Could be a side project, a tool, an integration, anything that ships. Tell us in 3 sentences how long it took and what tools you used to build it.
Workflow Loom.
Record a 90-second Loom screen-share of your actual coding workflow. Show us your editor, your AI tools, how you move. Don't perform. Just show us what a normal afternoon looks like.
Generalist test.
Pick one of these three and tell us in plain English how you'd build it. No code, just your approach.
(a) A Slack command that pulls last week's blended MER from a PostgreSQL database.
(b) A Shopify webhook that auto-creates a Notion task every time a refund over $100 is processed.
(c) A creator dashboard showing creator earnings, active design submissions, and approval status.