Full-Stack Engineer

What We Do

BirdDog helps landowners steward their land with clarity confidence and purpose.

We are a tech-enabled land intelligence platform and marketplace that connects private land to opportunity—whether through hunting and recreation agriculture conservation programs tax optimization or long-term stewardship.

We operate at the intersection of land data and trust. By combining AI-driven insights with real-world expertise BirdDog simplifies complex decisions and turns acres into income—without compromising legacy or conservation.

Where We Are Going

Our goal is to become the most trusted platform where landowners come to understand their property surface monetization opportunities and take action.

That means:

• Scaling technology that brings transparency and centrality to historically opaque land decisions and disparate solutions
• Expanding services that align profitability with stewardship
• Growing a brand that stands for trust independence and long-term thinking

We’re moving fast and building something to last.

About the Role

We are seeking a mid to senior level Fullstack Engineer to design build and scale features across our entire land intelligence platform—from the APIs and services that power our backend to the user interfaces that landowners hunters and farmers interact with daily. You will play a critical role in shaping architecture decisions on both sides of the stack and ensuring our systems are reliable performant and easy to use.

This role is ideal for someone who has hands-on experience building production systems end-to-end and is looking to take ownership of technical direction third-party tool selection and architecture decisions on a small high-impact team.

BirdDog runs on extreme ownership. We're a small team that does whatever it takes to ship solve problems and deliver for our users. We value simplicity over complexity by choosing pragmatic fit-to-purpose solutions versus over-engineered architectures. We leave egos at the door—strong opinions are welcome but loosely held. If you thrive with autonomy take pride in owning outcomes end-to-end and aren't afraid to step outside your lane when the situation calls for it—you'll fit right in.

Key Responsibilities

• AI-Driven Development: This is table stakes. We expect aggressive intelligent leverage of AI tools to accelerate delivery and automate work across the stack. The focus shifts to where human expertise matters most: high-level architecture critical decision-making and deep quality assurance
• Feature Development: Build features end-to-end—from database schema and API design through UI implementation—delivering complete polished experiences to users
• API Development: Design build and optimize RESTful APIs using NestJS ensuring high performance reliability and clean contract design
• UI Development: Build responsive accessible and performant user interfaces using Next.js and React ensuring a seamless experience across devices
• Architecture Ownership: Own architecture decisions across the stack evaluate trade-offs and drive technical direction as the platform scales—whether that means extracting services optimizing the monolith refining the microfrontend setup or knowing when to leave things alone
• Database Design & Optimization: Design efficient PostgreSQL schemas write and optimize complex queries using Knex.js and manage migrations as the data model evolves
• Third-Party Integration: Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for third-party tools (payment processors auth providers CRMs document signing etc.) selecting solutions that fit the problem without adding unnecessary complexity
• Quality & Monitoring: Implement automated testing logging and monitoring across frontend and backend to ensure system health and a reliable user experience
• Collaboration: Work closely with product and leadership to deliver features that directly impact landowners hunters and farmers

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Fullstack Engineer or related role
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript NodeJS and React
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs with NestJS Express or similar frameworks
• Experience building and maintaining applications with NextJS
• Solid understanding of relational database design PostgreSQL and query optimization
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (ECS S3 RDS SQS) or equivalent cloud platforms
• Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions and evaluate technical trade-offs
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and deployment platforms like Vercel
• Strong communication skills and ability to work autonomously

Preferred

• Background in land agriculture or outdoor industries
• Experience with monorepo tooling (Turborepo Nx) and microfrontend architectures
• Experience with geospatial data and mapping libraries (PostGIS MapLibre)
• Familiarity with Python for scripting automation or web scraping to support data ingestion
• Experience knowing when (and when not) to introduce abstractions shared code or architectural patterns

What We Do

BirdDog helps landowners steward their land with clarity confidence and purpose. We are a tech-enabled land intelligence platform and marketplace that connects private land to opportunity—whether through hunting and recreation agriculture conservation programs tax optimization or long-term stewardship.We operate at the intersection of land data and trust. By combining AI-driven insights with real-world expertise BirdDog simplifies complex decisions and turns acres into income—without compromising legacy or conservation.Our goal is to become the most trusted platform where landowners come to understand their property surface monetization opportunities and take action.That means:- Scaling technology that brings transparency and centrality to historically opaque land decisions and disparate solutions- Expanding services that align profitability with stewardship- Growing a brand that stands for trust independence and long-term thinkingWe’re moving fast and building something to last.

Why Work With Us

We're building the intelligence layer for America's land economy — a problem no one else is solving at this scale. Small team senior talent real ownership. Your work ships fast and directly impacts landowners and hunters across the country. Modern stack no bureaucracy and a mission you can actually see from a truck window.