# Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Chima

- Company: Chima (YC W23)
- What the company does: Building infrastructure tools to help large companies customize their…. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.withchima.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $60K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-06-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chima/jobs/RPtvoDv-senior-full-stack-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chima-senior-full-stack-engineer/

## About the role

Make things users can touch. Craft clean, snappy UIs (Next.js/React) and the APIs that power them. Use the most advanced AI tool stack. Use every available AI engineering tool to 100x your shipping ability.

## What they're looking for

- Own features end-to-end: database schema, backend service, front-end component, deployment, and metrics
- Design and maintain microservices (TypeScript/Node, Go, or Python) that stay healthy under real traffic
- Build cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform/CDK, Kubernetes) that can survive an outage and keep the bill sane
- Bake in security - RBAC, secret management, threat modeling - every time you merge
- Stay curious, try new tools, share what works, and toss what doesn’t

Tags: Engineering