Senior FullStack Engineer

Company Overview

Detect Auto is at the forefront of revolutionizing the auto repair industry with AI-powered tools that help shops service cars faster. We are a small, driven group that listens to customers, ships quickly, and sweats the details.

Role Overview

You’ll own critical parts of our product experience across the frontend and backend, from user-facing workflows to APIs, databases, and core services. You’ll work closely with customers, product, and engineering to build fast, reliable, intuitive tools that solve real problems for auto repair shops.

A great candidate is comfortable moving across the stack, cares deeply about product quality, and takes pride in shipping polished, maintainable software. You are pragmatic, fast-moving, and able to balance strong technical decisions with customer impact.

A great candidate:

• Has strong full-stack experience and a track record of shipping production applications.

• Can build high-quality frontend experiences while also designing reliable backend systems.

• Is a self-starter who works with urgency, ownership, and follow-through.

Key Responsibilities May Include

• Build and maintain customer-facing product features across the frontend and backend.

• Design and implement scalable APIs, services, and database models that power our products.

• Create fast, intuitive, and reliable user experiences for repair shops and internal teams.

• Work closely with customers and teammates to understand needs, iterate quickly, and improve product outcomes.

• Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, launch, and production support.

• Improve application performance, reliability, usability, and maintainability.

• Collaborate with a lean team of talented engineers to ship quickly without sacrificing quality.

• Measure, optimize, and iterate based on production metrics, customer feedback, and business needs.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development.

• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks.

• Proficiency with Python and backend application development.

• Experience building and maintaining production web applications.

• Strong experience with Postgres databases.

• Ability to design clean APIs, data models, and application architecture.

• Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and production operations.

• Clear, proactive communication in a remote environment.

• Product mindset and ownership, you care about outcomes, not just tasks.

Nice to Have

• Experience building AI-powered or workflow-heavy products.

• Experience with high-performance frontend applications and complex user interfaces.

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code and DevOps practices.

• Background in building integrations or working with third-party APIs.

• Experience self-hosting applications and services.

• Experience with observability, analytics, and production monitoring.

Benefits

🏥 Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents

🚚 Relocation assistance

🌴 Take-what-you-need PTO

Location and Type

Full-time · In Office (Austin, TX)