Product Engineer, Core

Key

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience shipping products at scale within a startup environment.
  • Strong systems thinking combined with attention to detail.
  • Proficiency in user interaction and infrastructure debugging.
  • Ability to manage multiple roles effectively and with enthusiasm.
  • Aesthetic sensibility for high-quality software design.
  • Desire to empower and develop team members.

Responsibilities

  • Own product features from conception to post-launch analysis.
  • Engage with users to deeply understand and prioritize their challenges.
  • Troubleshoot critical infrastructure issues as they arise, regardless of time.
  • Collaborate closely with co-founders on pivotal engineering problems.
  • Mentor team members and elevate overall team performance.

Benefits

  • Equity stake in a rapidly growing startup.
  • Opportunity to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Full Job Description
About the job Product Engineer, Core

What you'll actually do
  • Own features end-to-end - from product intuition through design, implementation, and the metrics that prove it worked
  • Sit with users, understand their problems, and translate that directly into what you build
  • Debug infra at 2AM when it matters, then walk a user through a new feature the next morning
  • Work directly with Kush and Chris (the co-founders) on the hardest, most important problems
  • Raise the bar for the team - mentor, review, and help the people around you win

Who we're looking for
  • You've shipped products at scale inside a startup, not just inside a big company
  • You think in systems but obsess over the details that make a product feel great
  • You're as comfortable talking to users as you are debugging infrastructure
  • You wear multiple hats not because you have to, but because you want to
  • You have an eye for what great software feels like, not just what it does
  • You want to unlock the potential of the people around you


We're full-stack, AI-native, and moving fast. You should be fluent across the stack and have opinions about how to build things well - we care more about taste and track record than any specific language or framework.

This is not a ticket-taker role. No PM is handing you specs. You'll figure out what to build, build it well, and own the outcome after it ships.

Early team, meaningful equity

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