Full-Stack Engineer I

Formant is a Series A startup building the operating system for intelligent machines, focusing on deploying and scaling fleets of robots. They are seeking an ambitious early-career Full-Stack Engineer to enhance their platform's reliability and usability, working across various tasks from debugging to product development.

Responsibilities:

• Investigate and resolve high‑priority production issues
• Debug across the stack with guidance from senior engineers
• Identify recurring issues and drive systemic fixes, not only one‑offs
• Build and improve features across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra)
• Improve documentation, runbooks, and onboarding paths for common scenarios
• Help build internal AI tooling (agents/chatbots) to handle common support workflows
• Improve logs, metrics, and diagnostics to make issues easier to detect and resolve
• Proactively reduce support load by making the product and tooling better
• Explore unfamiliar codebases or technologies

Requirements:

• 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience (internships, co-ops, and substantial projects count)
• Pragmatic: you can differentiate between 'ship the fix' and 'refactor the world'
• Strong fundamentals in computer science and software design
• Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding copilots, LLMs) to improve productivity and learning
• Comfortable working on 'unsexy' problems (legacy code, tricky edge cases) to earn leverage and context
• Communicative and calm under pressure when production issues arise
• Curious, pragmatic, and eager to learn quickly
• Takes ownership and follows through on problems
• You can show your work: a portfolio (GitHub, shipped projects, demos, write-ups) that lets us see your drive, energy, and how you think through real problems