Lead Full Stack Engineer

Department: Product & Engineering

Location: Boston

Compensation: $150K – $200K

Employment Type: FullTime

Title: Lead Full Stack Engineer

Location: Boston, MA

Reporting Structure: This role reports to the Head of Product & Engineering

Company Description

CivilGrid is a venture-backed SaaS construction tech company building the "Google Maps for the Underground." Come help us disrupt a $4.7T US industry segment that desperately needs innovation. This opportunity has tremendous upside as it scales.

CivilGrid aggregates public and proprietary utility, geotechnical, environmental, and jurisdictional data. The consolidated information is sold via our collaborative SaaS mapping platform to engineers and developers who need it to make early-stage decisions on real estate and infrastructure projects. Real time data access reduces labor and project delays, accelerates decision making and reduces project risk. Collaborative features ensure faster information flow and decisioning inside and outside the organization and better project insight retention over time.

Responsibilities

As a small team, we all wear many hats and enjoy tackling new challenges. When it comes to tech, we're seeking experienced individuals who can efficiently identify problems and devise solutions. You will be a foundational team member with the opportunity to work on all aspects of the application and shape the technical future of CivilGrid. Joining at this stage, you will build core systems that will help us scale quickly, and benefit from tremendous upside as we grow.

You will be responsible for:

• Design and build end-to-end features, covering everything from database models to user-facing components using React.

• Tackle a variety of areas: web and mobile applications, mapping interfaces, data processing pipelines, algorithmic relevancy, and real-time collaboration tools.

• Profile and tune performance across the entire stack to ensure efficient and responsive systems.

• Implement and maintain analytics, health monitoring, alerts, and logging to maintain operational visibility and system reliability.

• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and offer constructive feedback to help grow the team’s technical capabilities.

Is this you?

• 5 years of experience working with JavaScript or TypeScript, particularly with React and Node.js (or equivalent frameworks).

• Comfortable driving 0→1 development—taking projects from conception through to production launches.

• Start Up Ready: Autonomous, moves fast, takes initiative without being asked

• Thrives in greenfield environments and enjoys architecting, designing, and execution of new systems and solutions.

• Experience working on a complex B2B Product

• Strong foundational knowledge of Postgres

• Familiarity with geospatial frameworks (PostGIS, GeoJSON, map rendering libraries, etc.) is a plus.

• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and offer constructive feedback to help grow the team’s technical capabilities.

• Strong verbal and written communication, able to articulate ideas clearly and collaborate effectively.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States

• Bonus Qualification: A degree in Computer Science, Civil Engineering, or a related field (B.S. or M.S.)—nice to have, but not required.

Perks

• Interesting and challenging work

• Lots of room for growth

• Competitive salary and equity

• Health insurance

• Flexible and remote-friendly work environment

• FSA (health and dependent care)

• Unlimited PTO