Full Stack Engineer

About Sunset

Sunset helps tech startups shut down. We’re the 1-stop shop for dissolutions, handling all the legal, tax, and operational burdens that go into winding down. We make sure founders and investors avoid penalties, reduce liabilities, and can immediately move on to what's next.

In 2 years, we’ve helped over 350+ venture-backed startups shut down, are generating millions in revenue, and raised $5.5M from some of the world’s best entrepreneurs and investors.

The Role

As a Full-Stack Engineer at Sunset, you’ll turn messy legal, tax, and operational workflows into simple, reliable software for founders at a difficult moment. You’ll run a thoughtful, no-drama build process—from discovery and scoping through delivery—using tight loops with operations, legal, and tax to ship the right thing quickly (even if that means saying no and cutting scope). You’ll own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and integrations, and extend our newly launched, increasingly automated platform with high-leverage services. You’ll push practical AI where it truly helps, harden security and observability, and keep impeccable engineering hygiene (types, tests, reviews, monitoring). This role demands strong product instincts, clear communication, and adaptability in a fast-moving environment where things change quickly.

Why This Is Interesting

• Real problems, real leverage: you’ll touch legal, tax, and financial workflows that usually take months of human effort.

• High context: we’re in-person in Dumbo, shipping fast with tight loops between engineering, product, and ops.

• Small team: early ownership, direct impact, no middle layers.

• Mission: you’re helping founders close one chapter and start another

What You’ll Work On

• Build and own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and integrations.

• Push the limits of how we can leverage AI in clever ways to speed everyone up and delight our customers.

• Model legal and financial workflows into reliable, powerful automations.

• Ship integrations with payroll, accounting, e-sign systems, and many more

• Improve our internal tooling like client comms tool, metrics dashboards, and task management.

• Keep raising the bar on code clarity, observability, and security.

Our Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, React Router, Tailwind + shadcn/ui, Storybook

• API: tRPC, React Query, Zod

• Backend: Node, Prisma + PostgreSQL, Redis

• Infra: Render & AWS

You Might Be a Fit If

• You are a product minded engineer

• AI tools like Cursor are deeply integrated into your dev workflow

• You like moving quickly without waiting on designers from a designer or perfectly scoped PRDs

• You’ve shipped products end to end, from tweaking CSS through to adding necessary DevOps

This role might not be a fit if:

• You want to work remote or hybrid (we’re in-person 5 days/week in Brooklyn).

• You don’t like scoping, designing, implementing your own feature work.

• You prefer long planning cycles or narrow ownership.

• You’re not interested in the mission of helping founders close well and move on.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision

• Unlimited PTO

• $500 in-office setup allowance

How We Hire

1. Intro chat (20 min) – mutual fit and interests

2. Technical session (1hr) – collaborative problem-solving

3. Onsite (2–3 hrs) – product deep dive, system design, meet the team

4. Quick references → offer