Forerunner (withforerunner)
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
$185K–$215K
Portland, ME +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Location
- Portland, ME
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years of product engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to sponsor H1-B visas; permanent residency or citizenship is required.
About the job
Build and own full-stack product features that help government users manage climate adaptation, geospatial data, and workflows.
What you'll do
- Deliver features from database modeling and API development through customer-facing interfaces, working across engineering, product, design, and customer success.
- Turn ambiguous problems into shipped capabilities, including integrations with government systems and processing geospatial datasets.
- Maintain and improve shipped systems through reliability work, on-call participation, mentoring, and engineering process improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping product features used by real users.
- Deep comfort with TypeScript, React, and full-stack development.
- Strong SQL and database design skills.
- Experience independently delivering complex features amid unclear requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS, containerization, PostGIS or geospatial technology, ETL pipelines, or government/climate tech.
- Experience using AI tools to plan and execute projects or scaffold features.
Pay
$185,000-$215,000 USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, AWS, Cursor, Claude Code
AI focus
AI-assisted development using tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to plan and execute projects or scaffold features.
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