Your mission
Role Overview
This is a senior individual contributor role designed for someone who wants to grow into broader technical leadership. You will have meaningful ownership from day one.
The team is deeply AI-forward. You will be provided with a Claude Code Pro account ($200/mo) and are expected to actively leverage AI-assisted workflows to maximize development velocity and decision-making.
What You Will Work On (First 3 Months)
- Zero-to-One Initiatives
- Studio Partnership Program: Architect and ship the core MVP for this greenfield product.
- Lead the end-to-end implementation including backend, analytics, and reliable instrumentation.
- Sequence milestones to ensure the system is maintainable and ready for rapid post-launch iteration.
- In-house Architecture Roadmap
- uScreen Headless Migration: Lead the transition from legacy template-based hosting to a decoupled, in-house frontend.
- Build the API integration layer between uScreen’s backend and our custom stack to unlock UI flexibility and performance.
- Standardize event tracking and attribution across the ecosystem to ensure data-grounded product decisions.
- Technical Operating Cadence
- Establish a high-velocity release workflow using GitHub and environment-specific deployments.
- Implement a triage rhythm and a “single source of truth” for technical priorities.
- Build out observability and reliability standards to eliminate "flying blind" during shipments.
Stack Context
You will manage and evolve a modern, decoupled architecture:
- uScreen (Headless): Video/tutorial hosting via API.
- Shopify: Commerce and storefront management.
- AWS: Primary cloud infrastructure.
- GitHub: Version control, CI/CD, and environment management.
- Analytics: GA4, custom event tracking, and attribution dashboards.
What you will own
- Own technical planning and delivery across product initiatives (scope, sequence, tradeoffs, timelines)
- Triage, prioritize, and resolve incoming technical issues with a calm, structured approach
- Partner with product/design to shape solutions that are maintainable and measurable
- Lead the buildout of new product initiatives (including standalone feature areas with backend + analytics)
- Reduce legacy dependency and establish a clear path to a transition to custom solution
- Maintain and extend cloud infrastructure (AWS), including reliability, cost awareness, and performance
- Manage and improve deployment pipelines and workflows using GitHub (PR hygiene, environments, releases)
- Set sensible engineering standards (logging, monitoring, testing expectations, documentation)
- Improve analytics instrumentation
- Support and unblock other teams with clear technical communication (without becoming a helpdesk)
Your profile
We’re looking for someone who can operate as the senior technical owner of a small but ambitious company. The most important competencies are:
Strong judgment on what to build vs. what to avoid
- Ability to turn ambiguous goals into clear technical plans
- Architectural ownership and leadership
- Comfort making decisions, documenting them, and aligning stakeholders
- Ability to lead execution while keeping the system stable and understandable
Execution capability (hands-on)
- You can implement key pieces yourself when needed
- You keep momentum without sacrificing quality
- You ship in iterations and don’t get stuck in theoretical perfection
Key Qualifications
- Proven experience owning and driving technical delivery in a startup or small team environment
- Strong full-stack fundamentals and the ability to work across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript foundation and modern web development experience
- Experience integrating third-party services and APIs
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and production operations
- Strong GitHub workflow competence (branches, PRs, code reviews, CI/CD)
- Strong communication skills in English (German is a plus)
Nice-to-have Skills
- Experience with templated / theme-based web platforms and migrations away from legacy customizations
- Experience with Shopify ecosystems and commerce integrations
- Familiarity with analytics tooling (e.g., GA, event tracking, product analytics, dashboards)
- Experience introducing lightweight incident response routines (on-call not required, but discipline is)
Working style & collaboration
You’ll work closely with the CEO and the Content leadership. The expectation is that you become the person who brings clarity and forward motion:
- “Here’s what we’ll do, what we won’t do, and why.”
- “Here are the risks and how we de-risk them.”
- “Here’s the plan and what we need from each function.”
Why us?
- High ownership and real leverage on product direction
- A mission-driven, international team
- A product with real users and strong brand pull
- Flexible working hours and pragmatic startup culture
- Room to shape the technical org and future hiring plan
Application
Send CV + links (GitHub/portfolio/case studies) + a short note answering:
- A system you inherited that was messy — what did you change in the first 60 days?
- An example of a tough tradeoff you made between speed and quality.
- What you’d look at first in our setup (multi-platform + growth + retention).
Please apply through our application platform with your resume, a short note on why this role fits you, and links to relevant work (GitHub, portfolio, shipped products).
About Us
Shibari Study is a young and dynamic company dedicated to making shibari education accessible to people worldwide. We pride ourselves on providing high-quality educational content in a unique and engaging way. Our team combines creativity and technical excellence to provide an engaging, intuitive, and beautifully designed user experience.
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