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Founding Engineer - Memora ApS

Headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark
URL: https://memora.dk/

About Us

At Memora, we're digitizing one of the oldest and most overlooked categories on earth: the cemetery. Most still run on paper maps, spreadsheets, and institutional memory. We are replacing this with an ecosystem for everyone who touches a cemetery: the leadership running it, the field teams maintaining it, the families visiting it, and the local partners serving them.

We’re backed by leading investors and guided by a team of experienced founders and engineers from well-known tech names reimagining a category long overdue for change. We’re deliberately lean, and will keep it that way.

The Role

This is a remote position. We are hiring a Founding Engineer to step into one of the broadest roles on the team: a hands-on IC role with real product and cultural ownership.

The Why

Memora is growing rapidly. We need an awesome engineer who can lead from all angles of the technical stack:

  • IaC end-to-end: Terraform, AWS, deploys, and observability.
  • Data ingestion pipelines: Large exports, QGIS, PostGIS, and multi-tenant setups.
  • Core product features: Shipping across NestJS, React, and React Native (Expo) mobile apps.
  • Technical leadership: Being a thoughtful, methodical technical voice in a small team where every engineer has outsized influence.

The What (Recent Examples)

  • Filter systems: Attribute-based filter systems across PostGIS, NestJS APIs, React, and PMTiles-backed map tiles.
  • Data pipelines: Converting raw PDF cemetery maps into geo-referenced GeoPackages in QGIS, then ingesting into PostGIS.
  • Infrastructure: Terraform, multi-AZ RDS, ECS Fargate autoscaling, CI workflows, AI guardrails, WAF, and SNS.
  • AI: Designing, evaluating, and building harnesses for summaries and activity tracking.
  • Foundations: Production work such as RLS (multi-tenancy), idempotency keys, and optimistic locking.

The Stack

  • Backend: NestJS, TypeScript, MikroORM, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, Inngest
  • Web: React, TanStack Query, MapLibre + PMTiles
  • Mobile: React Native + Expo, Expo Router, native iOS/Android push
  • Infra: AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, CloudFront, SNS, Bedrock, WAF), Terraform, GH Actions (OIDC), Logto
  • Observability: Grafana Cloud, Sentry, CloudWatch
  • Geospatial: QGIS, GeoPackage, PMTiles
  • AI: AWS Bedrock + guardrails, Promptfoo for evals

Who You Are

Must have:

  • 8+ years building production software, including at least one role at a growth startup or as a founding/early engineer.
  • Full-stack proficiency: Comfortable shipping in TypeScript across backend (Node/NestJS) and React-based frontends.
  • Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience: You have owned a Terraform stack on AWS.
  • Strong relational database fundamentals: Experience designing schemas, optimizing queries, and running migrations against large live datasets.
  • Ability to operate in a small team without a playbook: You can scope your own work, write docs, and triage bugs.

Strongly preferred:

  • React Native / Expo experience shipping to App Store + Play Store.
  • PostGIS or production geospatial work.
  • Experience with row-level security, multi-tenancy, or compliance-sensitive data (GDPR/public-sector).
  • Production AI/LLM work (prompt design, evals, guardrails).
  • B2B/B2G SaaS experience.

A Note on AI

We lean hard on AI coding tools (Claude, Perplexity, Cursor, etc.) and expect you to as well. We ship to municipalities managing data for real families, so the bar is robust, well-tested, human-reviewed code. We treat these tools like a sharp junior pair-programmer: fast, occasionally brilliant, frequently wrong, and never the final authority.

How We Work

  • Remote by design: We expect ownership, communication, and roughly 4 hours of overlap with Copenhagen (CET).
  • Work-life balance: We welcome the whole human. We optimize for people doing the best work of their careers while still having a life.
  • Small team: Currently 5 people. You will have real autonomy and influence.
  • Culture: Low ego, high standards, and psychological safety.
  • Async-first: We write things down, keep meetings purposeful, and avoid process for process’ sake.
  • Offsites: We get together for an offsite every quarter somewhere in the world.

Compensation & Equity

  • Senior IC salary (currency calibrated to location).
  • Meaningful founding-engineer equity grant.
  • Annual leave + Danish-equivalent benefits.
  • Quarterly offsites around the world.

How to Apply

Please send us:

  1. A relevant CV
  2. A short introduction
  3. Pick 2 questions in the questionnaire

Apply here: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/memora-aps-founding-engineer

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