Full Stack Engineer

🏡 Hybrid within Southeast Asia 🌎 Open to: Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh, Taipei, and similar About Taama At Taama, we're building the operating system for global product compliance. Today, getting a food, beverage, or supplement product compliant across markets means manual review, sprawling spreadsheets, and regulatory knowledge that lives in people's heads & mountains of paperwork, instead of in a system. As companies expand into more markets and regulations continue to evolve, that approach is becoming increasingly slow, expensive, and difficult to scale. We're turning compliance into reliable infrastructure that can be built upon - turning complex, regulation-heavy processes into fast, intelligent experiences. Not by replacing the judgment of regulatory professionals, but by helping them apply the expertise they've built over years of experience faster, more consistently, and with greater transparency across every market a product touches. We're a fast-moving, Singapore-based startup backed by Iterative VC, already building across regulatory frameworks in North America, Europe, APAC, and more — with beauty, personal care, and pet food next on our roadmap as we push into adjacent regulated categories. This is early-stage, high-ownership work: the systems we build now will define how compliance works for years to come. The Role This is not a typical engineering job. You will be one of the first technical hires, which means you will write production code every day and also shape how we build: the architecture, the tooling, the culture of craft. You will work directly with the founders on product decisions, and your fingerprints will be on everything Taama ships. We are looking for someone who thrives in the unknown: who can pick up a fuzzy problem, make it concrete, and ship something real before the week is out. Someone who treats ambiguity as a design surface, not a blocker. What You'll Do Own the full stack: frontend, backend, infrastructure, and the glue in betweenWork closely with founders to translate complex workflows (compliance, legal, CPG) into clean, intuitive product experiencesIntegrate and orchestrate AI models, agents, and pipelines into production systemsLay the engineering foundations: patterns, documentation, CI/CD, code standards — built to scale, not just to surviveMove fast and make considered trade-offs — know when to cut corners and when to build it rightBe an active voice on product direction, not just a feature executorContribute beyond code when needed — demos, customer calls, whatever it takes at this stage Who You Are 4+ years building software, at least one system you kept alive in production for over a yearYou have built things at early-stage startups — ideally before product-market fit, where speed and judgment mattered equallyYou are comfortable not knowing the answer and figuring it out anywayYou write clean, pragmatic code — and you know the difference between over-engineering and under-engineeringYou are AI-native: You have shipped an LLM feature or product to production and can show how you measured accuracy and what you did when it driftedYou can hold complexity in your head and present simplicity to usersYou are based in Asia (±2h of GMT+8 timezone) and available to work with a distributed team across time zones Stack & Skills We care more about your judgment than your stack, but here is the terrain: Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSSBackend: Python, REST API, containerised workloadsAI/ML: LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI etc.), advanced RAG (hybrid retrieval, query expansion, reranking), agent frameworks & multi-agent orchestration with tool calling, knowledge graph constructionInfra: GCP, Postgres/pgvector, Queues, Redis, CI/CD pipelines, observability basicsMindset: documentation-first, test where it matters, ship and iterateYou treat evaluation as part of the feature. You are uncomfortable shipping a verdict you can't trace. Nice to Have Experience in compliance, legal tech, or CPG — or genuine curiosity about regulated industriesPrior experience as a founding engineer or very early hire in a startupYou have built internal tools or workflows that replaced manual, high-stakes processesFamiliarity with document understanding, structured extraction, or workflow automation What We Offer A seat at the table; you will shape the product, the culture, and the companyCompetitive compensation + equity at an early stageFull autonomy and accountability - no hand-holding, no micromanagementA team that respects craft and moves fast without dramaThe chance to build something genuinely new in a space ripe for disruption Sound like you? We do not need a perfect CV. We need someone who has shipped, who has broken things and fixed them, and who is excited about what AI can do in industries that have barely changed in decades. Send in your application here: https://tally.so/r/A7ekoe