Technical Lead (Full-Stack)

AutoPylot is one of the largest, most trusted FAA-approved mission-planning platforms for drone pilots. Pilots rely on us every day to plan and execute safe, efficient missions, and our user base is growing fast. Now we’re looking for a Technical Co-Founder to help us scale our SaaS platform, expand our technical capabilities, and build the next generation of tools for drone operators and developers.

We’re a small, venture-backed company building in one of the fastest-growing categories in aviation. We’re past the idea stage, past the MVP stage, and firmly in the real users, real traction, real revenue stage. Now we’re looking for a Technical Co-Founder to help shape the next chapter of AutoPylot, scaling our SaaS platform, strengthening our infrastructure, and finding new ways to power the future of drone operations.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Take ownership of AutoPylot’s technical direction and platform architecture
• Build and improve our backend, frontend, infrastructure, and API layers as we scale
• Make the system faster, more reliable, and ready for significantly higher usage
• Work directly with the founding team to shape features, workflows, and new product ideas
• Ship quickly, iterate based on user feedback, and continuously improve the experience
• Establish engineering best practices as we scale the team
• Help hire and mentor future engineers (as the team grows)
• Stay hands-on: this is still a builder role, not just leadership

What We’re Looking For

• Extremely strong engineering skills (full-stack or backend-leaning preferred)
• Experience building and launching real, user-facing products
• Strong UI/UX sensibility, with hands-on experience designing and implementing polished, intuitive user interfaces end-to-end
• Experience growing and leading small engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and setting technical standards
• Someone who thrives in “figure it out and ship it” environments
• Comfortable working with cloud infra, APIs, scaling systems, and high-availability products
• Collaborative, reliable, and low-ego, as we move fast as a team
• Bonus: experience with drones, airspace, aviaiton, FAA

Why You Might Love This

• FAA-approved product with real traction and a fast-growing user base
• Immediate impact: your work will be in our users’ hands quickly
• High ownership and real influence on the product, technical, and overall company direction
• A friendly, scrappy team that moves quickly and supports each other
• Meaningful co-founder equity and upside
• Join at the perfect moment: beyond MVP, before the major scale-up
• You get to build in one of the most exciting industries on the planet as drones and aviation are growing fast, evolving fast, and full of unsolved problems
• If you’ve ever wanted to shape the future of how drones operate, this is your chance; you’ll be building the tools pilots, team and enterprises rely on every day

What It’s Really Like to Work Here

We’re building something big, and big things don’t get built at half-speed. So if you’re looking for comfort, this is the wrong place. But if you want to help develop an industry-defining platform with people who are fully committed to the same mission, you’ll feel right at home.