Principal Engineer - Stackpoint Ventures

Stackpoint is a venture studio focused on building and scaling AI-native companies across various high-barrier verticals. The Principal Engineer will be responsible for architecting, coding, and shipping backend systems and responsive frontends for new products, collaborating closely with PMs, designers, and founding CEOs throughout the build process.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and ship backend systems and responsive frontends for new products across our portfolio, from prototype through MVP launch
• Stand up cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and security foundations for each new product. Make pragmatic infrastructure decisions that balance speed with scalability
• Leverage AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) as core workflow tools. Integrate LLM capabilities into customer-facing products where they create real value — prompt engineering, API integration, cost/performance tradeoff evaluation
• Embed with a portfolio company for the duration of its Studio-led build (typically ~6 months). Own the technical execution alongside the pod. When the company transitions to its own team, roll onto the next build with fresh context and compounding experience
• Partner with PMs, designers, and founding CEOs to translate discovery insights into functional software. Contribute to feasibility assessments and help teams understand what's buildable, what's risky, and what's worth a "build to learn" bet
• Help portfolio companies hire their own engineering teams (Head of Engineering, senior ICs) and execute clean handoffs of Studio-built systems within ~6 months of launch
• Contribute to internal tools and reusable frameworks that create compounding leverage across the Studio's company builds