Software Engineer (remote, startup)

Our company Meadow is rebuilding end-of-life care from scratch. In under two years, we've become the largest independent cremation provider in California, expanded to eight markets across four states, and served thousands of families with 5-star reviews and a 80+ NPS. We're backed by top investors and the team behind Moxie, the medspa platform now at national scale. Deathcare is a $20B market that hasn't meaningfully changed in 70 years: opaque pricing, no digital presence, and families making the hardest decisions of their lives under pressure. We're building the modern alternative: transparent pricing, 24/7 hospitality, and software that handles the operational complexity so humans can focus on care. Software Engineer We're looking for a mid- to senior-level IC full-stack software engineer to keep our production systems healthy and move our internal tooling forward. You own features end-to-end, make architectural calls within a feature, and ship without a tech lead over your shoulder.About 80% of your work will be on the tools our operations, sales, and care teams use every day to serve families; the rest touches the family-facing surfaces where those experiences land. You'll also be stepping into a small, senior team comprised of our Head of Engineering and two other engineers. Your code reaches production quickly, and the problems you solve are felt directly by the people using the software the next day. We work out of a single monorepo. FastAPI services in Python, Next.js/React apps in TypeScript, Inngest for event-driven workflows and pub/sub, and Postgres as our primary datastore. Our objectives for the role Ship full-stack features end-to-end across internal tooling and family-facing surfaces, Inngest workflows, FastAPI + Pydantic endpoints, and the React UIs that sit on top of them. Triage production issues across our Python backends and TypeScript frontends, drive incidents to root cause, and leave the system better than you found it. Keep improving the experience for our internal users (operations, sales, and service teams) who live in these tools every day and expand the tool set available to them as the business grows. We're looking for Mid-Senior IC: 3-7+ years shipping production software, with real day-job experience in both Python and TypeScript. Fullstack: Comfort working across the stack. You don't need to be equally strong on frontend and backend, but you should be willing to own a feature from database to UI. Experience with event-driven or job-queue systems (Inngest, Celery, SQS, Temporal, etc.) or a clear appetite to learn ours quickly. Startup: You've worked at an early-stage startup before and know what that actually feels like: ambiguity, shifting priorities, and owning outcomes rather than tickets. Timezone: Available during our core hours of 12 PM ET–8 PM ET, reachable for syncs and pairing. Why join us? We're a well-funded, 40-person team from Stripe, Google, Opendoor, Oscar, and a16z-backed companies, moving fast in a category that's been waiting for a real company to show up. We're opening new markets every month and hiring people who'd rather build than follow. Deathcare today runs on paper, phone, and fax. Almost every other funeral company treats engineering as IT. At Meadow, software is how we scale and how we deliver a better experience for families, and it's one of our biggest competitive advantages. The tools you build are what the business runs on. A small team that leans hard on LLMs ships like a much larger one. Engineers here use AI heavily in the dev loop, and LLMs power core product surfaces. If you've been stuck at a company where AI adoption is blocked by policy or legacy code, you'll feel the difference in week one. To apply, or to ask questions before you do, reach out to Peter, our Head of Engineering. Work setup Long-term contractor via Deel Based in Latin America (we’re remote first already). Core hours 12 PM–8 PM ET (noon–8 PM Colombia, 1 PM–9 PM Argentina, 11 AM–7 PM Mexico City). The working language is English, including daily syncs. Paid monthly in USD through Deel. Rate range $5,000–$10,500/month depending on performance, seniority, and location. You provide your own laptop and equipment. On-call expectations: This role includes limited weekday on-call coverage. We ask that you be reachable by phone for the 3 hours after your shift, up to 11pm Eastern, for urgent production issues that require engineering support. Weekend coverage is currently handled separately. Apply To This Job