About the role
Lead Full-Stack Engineer Lead Full-Stack Engineer We're Sharp Performance Sharp Performance is transforming mental wellness for those in high-demand professions, starting with public safety. Our mission is to extend the service-life and health span of those who run toward danger: law enforcement, firefighters, and other frontline professionals. Through our mobile platform, we connect them with elite performance coaches trained in cognitive performance methods adapted from the U.S. Special Operations community. This is not a lifestyle brand. This is not "tech for tech's sake." This is applied resilience, delivered where it matters most. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and investors behind Uber, Airbnb, PayPal, and Palantir. Partnerships are forming weekly. The mission is expanding quickly. We are early. We are building. And success is not guaranteed. If that excites you more than it scares you, then let's go.
About
the role We're spinning up a new squad at Sharp Performance to build a 0-to-1 product, and we're looking for a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to be the technical anchor. You'll set the architectural direction, write a meaningful share of the code yourself, and guide the output of a small team (1–2 direct reports to start, growing as the product proves itself). This is a player-coach role. You'll be hands-on in the codebase day-to-day, but you'll also be the person making sure what the squad ships is coherent, well-scoped, and actually moves the product forward. If you want to be heads-down on a single component, this isn't
the role. If you want to shape a product from a blank page — technically and as a small team — read on.
What you'll do Lead technical design and architecture for a new product being built from scratch, making the early decisions that will shape it for years. Build full-stack: own features end-to-end across the frontend (Next.js or Vue) and backend, including API design, data modeling, and infrastructure choices. Mentor and manage 1–2 engineers — running meetings, giving feedback, unblocking them, and growing them as