Full Stack Engineer (backend focus) – Team Lead

About Lumo

Lumo is building the first AI native affiliate operating system for TikTok Shop. Think of it as the “Salesforce of social commerce.” We’re automating the messy, manual world of creator discovery, outreach, campaign management, and performance optimisation and turning it into a single intelligent system that learns and scales with every campaign.
Our mission: empower brands and agencies to run affiliate campaigns on autopilot, with AI handling the heavy lifting so they can focus on growth.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the engineering backbone of a category defining SaaS product in one of the fastest-growing markets globally.
• Early hire means high ownership + leadership. You’ll have direct input into architecture, stack choices, and engineering culture.
• Work directly with founders who manage millions in GMV through TikTok Shop campaigns, building with real-world data, not hypotheticals.
• Collaborate at the intersection of AI, social commerce, and SaaS infrastructure an ecosystem on the rise.

The Role

We’re hiring a Full Stack Engineer (with leadership responsibility) to bridge backend and frontend, and to guide the engineering team. You’ll build the user-facing experience, dashboards, workflows, and conversational UIs while ensuring robust connections to the backend systems.
As one of our first hires, you’ll also act as a team lead: running sprints, setting engineering standards, and helping the team ship efficiently.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the engineering team in agile squads: refine, estimate, and prioritise work with product owners.

• Mentor backend and frontend teammates, acting as a scrum master style lead to maintain velocity and culture.

• Build data visualization dashboards with interactive charts, metrics tracking, and performance analytics using modern frontend frameworks.

• Develop search and discovery interfaces with advanced filtering capabilities and dynamic result presentations for large datasets.

• Design workflow management systems with responsive interfaces for process automation, task tracking, and configuration managemen.

• Create conversational AI interfaces that enable natural language interactions and transform user queries into visual data insights.

• Build AI creator discovery platforms with computer vision, NLP, and ML to analyze video content and enable semantic searches with natural language queries and recommendation algorithms.

• Develop intelligent automation systems for multi-channel outreach with AI-generated messaging, automated workflows, and scalable infrastructure supporting thousands of creators.

• Create comprehensive CRM tracking the complete creator lifecycle from discovery to performance analysis, with automated workflows for onboarding, campaigns, and ROI optimization.

• Design scalable data infrastructure integrating social media APIs, processing real-time creator metrics, with robust security, role-based access controls, and enterprise compliance.

• Build conversational analytics interface using LLMs (e.g OpenAI/Claude) that translates natural language questions into SQL queries and generates visualizations with anomaly detection.

• Implement campaign orchestration with A/B testing, performance tracking, and predictive analytics connecting creator activities to business outcomes (GMV, ROAS, conversions).

Our Stack (current & planned)

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Next.js (planned)
• Backend: Node.js (primary), Python (AI/ML integration), Go (select services)
• Databases: Postgres + Redis cache; exploring NoSQL (Mongo/Firebase)
• Infra: AWS (Lambda, ECS, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes
• Messaging/Queues: Kafka / RabbitMQ (planned)
• Integrations: TikTok APIs, Kalodata, Gmail/Outlook, Slack, Stripe, Discord

What We’re Looking For

• Senior full stack engineer (5+ years), comfortable leading small teams and owning full features end-to-end.
• Strong proficiency in React/TypeScript and modern FE frameworks.
• Backend experience with Node.js (preferred), plus exposure to APIs, OAuth flows, and third-party integrations.
• Experience designing scalable systems and data-driven dashboards.
• Proficiency with SQL (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL (Mongo/Firebase) databases.
• Cloud infra knowledge (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of system design and scaling SaaS platforms.
• Bonus: experience with TikTok/social APIs, e-commerce, or affiliate marketing SaaS.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with ML/AI workflows (recommendations, NLP, analytics).
• Prior startup / early-stage experience.
• Passion for social commerce, creator economy, or growth tech.
• Open-source contributions or personal projects to showcase.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity (early hires share in Lumo’s upside).
• Fully remote.
• High autonomy, zero bureaucracy, and a culture of fast execution + ownership.
• Opportunity to grow into Founding Engineer / Engineering Lead roles as we scale.
• The chance to build both the product and culture that could define the future of TikTok Shop growth.

Our Culture

• Bias for action: We move fast, test, and iterate.
• Ownership: Everyone is a builder, not just a cog.
• Pragmatic excellence: We balance speed with quality - ship fast, but don’t cut corners on security or compliance.
• Collaboration: We believe the best work happens when engineers, product, and design push forward together.