Product Engineer
$180,000–$250,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Take ownership of high-impact product areas and ship customer-facing improvements daily, from whiteboard to production. Rapidly iterate on UI, UX, and core application logic based on real user feedback and production data. Decompose ambiguous product goals into clear engineering plans, execute them, and measure outcomes. Use AI pair-programming tools to 5–10x your productivity and push the team to do the same. Monitor production metrics, troubleshoot issues in real time, own the reliability of what you ship, and contribute to platform architecture decisions. Work closely with design, the founding team, customers, and CS to understand pain points and close the loop. Full-time hybrid role (3+ days/week in Brooklyn Navy Yard) with base salary $180,000–$250,000 plus equity.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering with a proven record of shipping customer-facing features end-to-end
- Strong frontend TypeScript skills
- Hands-on Postgres and backend TypeScript experience
- Daily, fluent use of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf)
- Ability to decompose ambiguous problems into shippable increments and communicate tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, early-stage environment where priorities shift and you own the outcome
- Experience with automated testing
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with production monitoring
- U.S. citizenship or other U.S. Person status
Desired Qualifications
- Svelte/SvelteKit
- React/Next.js
- experience with the AI SDK (Vercel AI SDK or similar)
- AI-first UX patterns
- RAG pipelines
- AI agent architectures
- a background in government contracting, the military, or the intelligence community
- experience in FedRAMP, IL, HIPAA, or other regulated environments
- open-source work
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