Full-Stack Engineer II

Full-Stack Engineer II

Keep Company Bethesda, Maryland, United States

About Keep Company

Keep Company is on a mission to make human connection an intentional, scalable asset in every workplace. We’re a venture-backed SaaS platform recognized by Techstars, Forbes, and SHRM, and our patented talent platform delivers relationship-based development experiences at leading professional services organizations. Talent leaders use it to launch, scale, and measure mentoring, coaching, and ERG programs with little admin burden and real, measurable impact.

We support 20+ clients in professional services — zero churn, multiple six-figure contracts. At a moment when AI is rapidly reshaping how we work, we’re rebuilding the human layer of it, because people are the asset organizations most need to invest in for culture, retention, and performance.

• $150K base
• Meaningful equity in an early-stage, venture-backed company
• We pay 100% of the premium for employee only coverage under one of our medical plans and 75% of the premium for dental and vision. Dependent coverage available, too.
• 401(k)
• High accountability + high flexibility culture

Two options:

• DC area: Our team and office are in Bethesda, MD. We work in person Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. If you’re local or willing to relocate, that’s great but not required.
• Remote. You'll fly to DC for 3 days every quarter, and you'll keep significant overlap with Eastern hours for standups, pairing, and day-to-day communication.

Either way: this is a high-collaboration role. If you’re looking for async-only, heads-down remote work, this won’t be a good fit .

As a Full-Stack Engineer you’ll report to our newly hired Principal Engineer and ship features and squash bugs with a strong appetite for continuous improvement. You’ll join a small team of 20 with 5 engineers including you. We're at a genuine inflection point: enterprise pilots running with named law firm clients, an AI-native engineering culture we’re actively building, and a platform foundation being rebuilt from the data layer up.

You’ll work day to day with our Principal Engineer and VP of Product, with regular exposure across the company. You’ll write production code every day, own end-to-end delivery on real client features, and pair on the harder problems.

We're looking for someone with genuine curiosity with the foundations to contribute on day one.

Next.js application (React, Type Script) with Aurora PostgreSQL on AWS. If you haven’t worked in this exact combination, that’s okay! Just having exposure to them and/or parallel technologies and ability to recognize similar patterns, identify opinions and differences between them are really what we value.

• Features, end to end. Frontend through backend, ticket to production. Clean code, real tests, peer-reviewed PRs.
• Bug-fix work across the platform. Help us drive defect escape rate down quarter over quarter, and build the muscle memory of catching things before they ship.
• The testing and tooling foundation. Playwright suites, CI checks, our internal while having an awareness of alternative tooling.
• Architecture, in partnership. Pair with the Principal Engineer on the harder decisions and learn the stack at depth.
• The team’s bar. Raise it through your own code and through generous, specific code review

We care much more about how you think and how you operate than whether your résumé matches our stack.

• Solid foundations. You understand what your code does: data modeling, HTTP, state, async behavior, why the query is slow. You can debug something you didn’t write. You’ve built enough to have real opinions and enough humility to know where they came from.
• Genuine curiosity. You read source code when the docs are thin. You know why the tool you use works the way it does. You bring back things nobody asked you to look into.
• Drive. You move things forward without being pushed. You’d rather ship something imperfect and iterate than polish in private.
• You take ownership. You close loops: when you own something, the next step is clear without anyone chasing you. You flag and mitigate…