Lead AI Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Finite State partners with product security teams, the guardians of our connected world, to create transparency for their connected devices and supply chains. Our platform handles connected devices and embedded systems across all industries, including those found in enterprises, healthcare, utilities, connected vehicles, manufacturing facilities, critical infrastructure, and government entities.&nbsp;</p> <p>We are a fast-growing series-B company with a fully distributed workforce. Led by a team of seasoned experts, we are a mission-driven team passionate about arming our customers with the actionable insights, critical vulnerability data, and remediation guidance necessary to mitigate product risk and protect the connected attack surface. We are committed to a remote first culture.</p></div><h3>The Role</h3> <p>We’re looking for a Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer with deep expertise in Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL/Supabase, and AI-assisted development to design, build, and deliver the scalable, secure systems behind our cybersecurity platform.</p> <p>This is a hands-on, product-focused role for an engineer who:</p> <ul> <li>Thrives at the intersection of secure software engineering, data-heavy systems, and product innovation</li> <li>Is fluent in AI tooling (Cursor, Devin, Copilot, etc.) and knows how to turn them into real velocity — not toys</li> <li>Can design full-stack solutions, think strategically about risk and performance, and help us move business logic closer to the data layer (Postgres + Supabase)</li> </ul> <h3>What You’ll Do</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Full-Stack Development: </strong>Build and maintain secure, scalable web applications using Next.js/React, TypeScript, and Node – backed by PostgreSQL on Supabase (and AWS RDS during migration). Own features end-to-end from UI to database.</li> <li><strong>Database-Centric Application Logic:</strong> Design and implement business logic close to the data using Postgres functions, views, triggers, Row-Level Security (RLS), and Supabase Edge Functions, minimizing unnecessary middleware and enabling high performance and strong data isolation.</li> <li><strong>AI-Accelerated Development: </strong>Treat tools like Cursor, Devin, GitHub Copilot, and agent frameworks as core parts of your workflow. You'll use them to scaffold and refactor full-stack features, generate and evolve schemas, migrations, and RLS policies and build internal agents that automate repetitive engineering tasks and glue systems together</li> <li><strong>Application Security First:</strong> Embed security best practices into every layer of development — from secure coding and dependency management to data protection and authentication/authorization (S