Agentic Lead Engineer

Who we are

CopeCart is building the default monetization platform for creators: payments, checkout, payouts, tax, courses, community, tracking, and growth tooling in one product. CopeCart helps entrepreneurs sell digital products professionally. With our headquarters in Berlin and our Product Development & Support Center in Lviv, Ukraine, we provide an all-in-one solution for coaches, course creators, and digital entrepreneurs.

With our diverse, international team, CopeCart is already active in numerous countries and offers vendors a true full-service platform: from product uploads and sales to payment processing, accounting, and comprehensive analytics - whether for e-books, coaching programs, online seminars, or event tickets.

We take care of the paperwork so our vendors can focus on what truly matters: growing their business.

And this is where you come in. 

About the role

We are looking for an Agentic Lead Engineer to help shape the next generation of our platform. This is not a role for someone who wants to maintain a traditional Rails product all day. Rails is part of our system, but the center of gravity for this role is our new architecture: TypeScript services, durable workflows, event-driven payments infrastructure, agent-assisted engineering, and production systems where correctness matters.

You will lead from the front: designing systems, reviewing architecture, raising engineering quality, and using AI agents as a serious force multiplier rather than a novelty.

Your tasks

What You’ll Work On

You will help build and lead work across:

Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript frontend surfaces for creators, buyers, affiliates, and internal operations

Bun/TypeScript services for payout, affiliate, webhook delivery, contact sync, event schemas, and service orchestration

Restate durable workflows for money movement, idempotency, retries, and long-running business processes

Hono, Drizzle, Postgres, Zod, AJV for typed service APIs and strict event contracts

Supabase/PostgREST for community and gamification surfaces

Stripe Connect payment and payout flows

EventBridge/SQS/outbox patterns for reliable domain events

OpenTelemetry and Aient for trace-driven debugging and production insight

Playwright, Vitest, Docker Compose E2E stacks for high-confidence delivery

Terraform/ECS/GitHub Actions for cloud infrastructure and deployment

What Success Looks Like

You make the system easier to reason about.

You take full ownership from code to production. That means you do not stop at merging a PR: you understand how the service is built, deployed, observed, debugged, and rolled back. You are comfortable crossing the boundary between application code, infrastructure, CI/CD, runtime configuration, logs, traces, alerts, and production incidents.

You will also help us become excellent at agentic software engineering: decomposing work for AI agents, reviewing their output rigorously, enforcing standards, and using automation to move faster without lowering the bar.

Responsibilities

Lead technical design for new platform capabilities across frontend, services, events, and infrastructure

Own architecture for critical flows such as checkout, affiliate attribution, payouts, webhook delivery, and creator onboarding

Review code and designs with a strong eye for correctness, observability, testability, and maintainability

Guide engineers and AI agents through implementation plans, code review, test strategy, and production hardening

Improve our engineering system: documentation, CI, E2E reliability, service boundaries, deployment safety, and observability

Help migrate product capability from legacy CopeCart into the new COPE platform without dragging legacy assumptions forward

Build a culture where types, tests, traces, and clear ownership are normal

Your profile

What We’re Looking For

Strong TypeScript experience across frontend and backend systems

Deep practical experience with React/Next.js and modern frontend architecture

Experience designing distributed systems with events, queues, retries, idempotency, and observability

Comfort working on payments, ledger-like systems, payouts, compliance-heavy flows, or similarly high-correctness domains

Strong testing instincts: unit, integration, contract, and E2E

Ability to lead engineers through ambiguity without creating process theater

Real interest in AI-assisted engineering and agentic workflows

Pragmatic taste: you can move fast, but you know where shortcuts become debt

Strong DevOps experience: CI/CD, Docker, cloud infrastructure, runtime configuration, deployment safety, observability, incident debugging, and production ownership

Experience owning systems end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational support

Nice To Have

Restate, Temporal, Durable Objects, or other durable execution systems

Stripe Connect, marketplace payments, payout systems, tax, invoicing, or reconciliation experience

OpenTelemetry, trace-based debugging, or production observability experience

Supabase/PostgREST experience

Terraform, ECS, Docker, and GitHub Actions experience

Experience leading small high-output engineering teams

Why Join

CopeCart is a serious rebuild of a real creator-commerce business with existing market knowledge, real users, and hard technical problems. You will not be polishing a toy SaaS dashboard. You will work on payments, creator monetization, community, commerce infrastructure, and agentic engineering practices that directly affect how fast the company can ship.

If you want to lead modern product engineering where AI agents, durable systems, typed contracts, and production rigor all matter, this is the role.

What you can expect at CopeCart

Remote & flexibility | Work from anywhere. Flexible working hours based on trust — no rigid schedules, but real ownership and autonomy.

Room for impact | In your day-to-day work, you will face a variety of exciting challenges that allow for a high level of ownership. Got a creative idea or a suggestion for improvement? Feel free to share it. We are always open to innovation, new ideas, and thinking beyond the obvious.

Benefits | Access to attractive corporate benefits as well as a company pension plan are naturally included.

Company fitness | The health and well-being of our employees matter to us. Through our partner EGYM Wellpass, you get access to more than 6,300 fitness and yoga studios, swimming pools, as well as CrossFit and bouldering gymsacross Germany and Austria.
Team events | Remote does not mean isolated. Several times a year, we meet in different locations for real exchange, real team building, and real connection

Hints for your application

Show us who you are. What do you want to learn with us? Where can you help us move forward? What drives you, and what keeps you going? Share this with us in a short personal message. We read every application individually and take the time to respond to you personally.

CopeCart is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.