Irvine, CA

Salary
$93,600–$416,000
Posted
Jul 13, 2026
Location
Irvine, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A full-stack engineering role at a small team building a social platform that combines social graph, long-form content, real-time chat, and a virtual economy on a shared data model. The work spans React frontends, identity and auth, APIs, content systems, and database architecture. Suited to generalist engineers with a track record of shipping production applications end to end.

Mid level · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time

Must have (4)
ReactGo or NodePostgreSQL or SqliteREST
Nice to have (2)
Swift or KotlinCI/CD

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 2,000 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,500–3,150

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What won't set you apart
Go40%React40%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The role is titled 'full stack engineer' with no seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The requirements (production shipping experience, full ownership of frontend through database architecture) support a Mid-level band — the scope is broad but the JD names no years of experience and the team is small, suggesting an independent but not yet senior-leadership level.

Go is listed as the primary backend language with Node.js as an explicit alternative ('Golang (or Node.js)'); both are captured under one skill entry.

PostgreSQL and SQLite are listed together as a single requirement; SQLite is captured as an alternative since they serve the same data-persistence role in this context.

Swift and Kotlin are listed together under 'Bonus' and treated as a single preferred skill with Kotlin as the alternative, covering mobile development.

DevOps/CI/CD experience is listed under 'Bonus' and is preferred.

Compensation is described only as 'competitive comp and benefits' with no figures provided.

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