Full Stack Developer

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Location: NYC, hybrid

Position Type: Full-Time

About us

Wayward is a well-funded, high-growth startup with proven product-market fit (3x YoY growth and still early days). Our mission is to build a marketplace that transforms editorial and creator content into ad inventory, providing brands with a scalable new channel for deploying budgets. By converting content into media, we are reshaping performance marketing and creating an entirely new path for global ad spend.

We are a small, tight-knit team where every individual significantly impacts the product and business. Our culture is fast-moving, ambitious, and ownership-driven. We operate with urgency, leverage AI to accelerate our work, and expect everyone to strive for the highest level of quality. If you thrive in an environment where focus and creativity converge, and you want to help define both a product and a category, you will fit right in.

Why Join Us

• The chance to be an early engineer at a rocketship startup reshaping a trillion-dollar industry

• Big vision, massive traction, and still small enough that every new hire shapes the culture, the product, and the category we’re building

• Work with a team that values speed, ownership, and innovation above all else

What We’re Seeking

• A highly driven builder who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact environments

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work hybrid from our NYC office

• Curious and adaptive, leveraging AI tools to enhance output, not replace critical thinking

• Entrepreneurial mindset, eager to shape not just code, but the company's direction

• A strong sense of ownership

• Product-minded with good taste

• 2-5 years of minimum work experience

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer on our early team, you’ll own projects end-to-end - from architecture and implementation to deployment and iteration. You’ll use AI daily to supercharge your workflow, whether that’s writing code, debugging, or optimizing systems. You’ll move fast, shipping features that power our platform and directly impact how brands deploy budgets into publisher and creator content. This role demands extreme ownership: identifying problems before they surface, proposing solutions, and driving them to execution at startup speed. You’ll collaborate closely with founders and cross-functional partners, helping to shape not just the product, but the technical direction of the company itself.

We believe in finding the right tool for the job and hiring flexible learners. Our current tech stack includes:

• Typescript

• React

• GCP: BigQuery, Cloud Run, GCS

• Postgres, MySQL

• Redis

• Elasticsearch

• Git

• Terraform, Pulumi

• Docker