4+ years in product engineering or growth engineering with hands-on coding experience.
Recent production code experience in TypeScript, React, or similar technologies.
Proven track record of measurable success in activation, conversion, and retention.
Familiarity with event-driven systems and product analytics.
Intermediate SQL skills; bonus for consumer fintech experience.
Responsibilities
Own the product roadmap and quarterly plans, focusing on high-impact metrics.
Identify and prioritize opportunities for onboarding and lifecycle improvements.
Prototype and ship production code independently, utilizing sandbox environments.
Run end-to-end experiments, from hypothesis to readout, ensuring data integrity.
Manage lifecycle systems, including workflows and monitoring.
Benefits
Work in an early-stage startup environment with significant ownership.
Opportunity to directly impact underserved communities through credit building.
Flexible remote work arrangement with a high-intensity focus.
Access to sandbox environments for prototyping and experimentation.
Full Job Description
Join an early-stage startup. Accelerate economic opportunity.
Join us to grow Kovo's core product. Credit building is the business that got us here, and it's still growing fast. You'll have end-to-end responsibility: onboarding, lifecycle, conversion and retention. You set the roadmap and you build what you find.
This role is a good fit if:
You've shipped code to production and you've decided what to build.
You go deep on funnels, workflows and lifecycle systems, and find the opportunity others missed.
When you find a fix, you open a PR instead of writing a ticket.
You think in experiments and measured lift, not campaign sends.
You want to inform the direction for a product.
About the role
What you inherit
Two feature-complete credit builder products that report to all four major bureaus.
Onboarding, lifecycle messaging (email, push, in-app, SMS) and growth experiments across web and app.
A lifecycle stack migration to PostHog, alongside product analytics and experiments in PostHog.
Sandbox environments that let you prototype on the real product.
Where your time goes
Most of it: finding and shipping the highest-leverage improvements across the existing product.
Some of it: building a system that runs experiments with fewer humans in the loop every quarter.
A little of it: setting the roadmap and keeping the team informed.
What you'll do
Set the direction
Own the north star, input metrics, roadmap and quarterly plan for the core product, the same way each engineering team owns its own.
Rank bets by measured impact on conversion, retention and lifetime value. Keep the list short.
Write short updates about results, not activity.
Find the opportunity
Go deep on onboarding, payment and lifecycle workflows. Watch sessions, query the data, read support conversations.
Size each opportunity before you build it.
Build it
Prototype in sandbox environments, then ship production PRs yourself. Use agents heavily.
Instrument events cleanly, and fix event and property gaps yourself.
Run experiments end-to-end: hypothesis, sizing, launch and readout.
Own the lifecycle system: workflows, templates, triggers and monitoring.
Build agentic workflows that propose, launch and read out experiments with less of you every quarter.
What you won't do
Write tickets for someone else to build or do what you could build or do yourself.
Groom a backlog.
Write a PRD when a prototype or a PR would answer the question faster.
Hand off a spec and wait.
About you
Mindset
You want to own outcomes, and you measure yourself by what moved.
Energized by helping underserved people build credit and financial identity.
Comfortable in a high-intensity, remote role with full ownership and little scaffolding.
You hate AI slop. You use agents heavily and hold their output to a higher bar than your own.
How you work
PR first. You fix what you find.
Data first. You write your own SQL and read your own experiments.
Clear, short writer. People act on your message after one read.
Experience
4+ years, or equivalent depth, in product engineering, growth engineering, or a product role where you shipped your own code.
You've shipped production code recently, in TypeScript, React or similar. AI-assisted counts.
A track record of measured wins in activation, conversion, retention or reactivation in a consumer product.
Comfortable with event-driven systems, product analytics, experiment design, and lifecycle platforms. Intermediate SQL or better.
Bonus: Consumer fintech experience.
You report to one of the founders, based in Austin, TX.
