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