AI-First Full-Stack Developer — Podcast Platform

What we're building A podcast distribution platform that solves a problem every creator deals with: one video upload, and everything else happens automatically. Audio extraction, RSS generation, YouTube publishing, Spotify and Apple distribution. One upload. Done. The role One technical lead who builds the whole thing using an AI-maximum approach. Not a team. One person who ships fast because they use AI tools properly — Cursor, Claude, whatever works. This is a requirement, not a nice-to-have. Stack Backend: Node.js / TypeScript Frontend: Next.js (React) Database: MongoDB Atlas Media processing: FFmpeg via AWS Lambda Storage: AWS S3 + Cloudflare Payments: Stripe Connect (multi-currency) Auth: OAuth 2.0 What I'm looking for - Strong Node.js / TypeScript — you've built real backends - AWS Lambda and S3 — hands-on, not just familiar - OAuth integrations — you've done them before - You've shipped something real. Link to it. - AI tools are a core part of how you work, not an experiment - You communicate early when blocked and make decisions without hand-holding How this works Paid test project first — same brief goes to 3–4 candidates simultaneously. Best execution gets the full contract. Test pays $500 USD regardless of outcome. There's more work after that for the right person. To apply Skip the cover letter. Tell me what you've built and how you use AI in your workflow. Two sentences is fine. A link to something live carries more weight than anything else.