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Founding Full-Stack Engineer
United States of America , San Francisco
On-site
Competitive compensation
Sway is rebuilding representative democracy from the ground up in a consumer-facing fashion. Our platform converts grassroots social support into real electoral leverage, giving political organizers viral, bottom-up tools to mobilize voters. We’ve shipped our MVP and are beta-testing ahead of the 2025 election cycle.
What you’ll do
- Build core features across a modern TypeScript stack (Next.js + React frontend, real-time GraphQL via Hasura, TS backend)
- Make architecture, infra, security, privacy, and product decisions as part of a small, but tight-knit founding team.
- Scale our social-graph and verification systems while running rapid product experiments with users.
Who you are
- Excited to be onsite in San Francisco, 5 days a week with an early, mission-driven team.
- Comfortable moving fast in both frontend and backend TS.
- Experienced in shipping quickly and robustly at an early-stage startup—or are eager to learn.
- Motivated by high-impact civic tech and/or consumer-facing products.
Why Sway
- Competitive comp with medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Flexible PTO.
- Direct ownership over technology that can reshape American politics.
- See more about Sway and the role here