Brilliant.org

Senior/Staff Product Engineer

Brilliant.org$200K — $240K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years of experience building interactive, user-facing applications with modern web technology
  • Direct ownership of user-facing product surfaces from UX decisions to defining success metrics
  • Strong experience in consumer product with a focus on conversion and user funnels
  • Proven proficiency in at least one additional programming language beyond JavaScript and TypeScript
  • Strong communication skills for effectively engaging with clients and stakeholders
  • In-depth understanding of metrics and user behavior alongside UI

Responsibilities

  • Define and guide the UX for existing and new features, influencing the product roadmap
  • Collaborate with customer success, engineers, and stakeholders to validate ideas and track growth initiatives
  • Shape the frontend architecture, UI standards, and technical decision-making
  • Regularly communicate with stakeholders to gather requirements and feedback
  • Drive experimentation through A/B testing and optimization of key metrics
  • Leverage technologies like TypeScript, React, and GraphQL to create engaging user interfaces

Benefits

  • Equity grants in addition to competitive salary
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Home office setup support
  • Unlimited paid leave policy
  • 401k plan launching this year
  • Flexibility with remote work or office-based in New York, NY
Full Job Description
About the role

We are seeking a gifted, product engineer to help support and grow our financial platform offerings. This is a significant opportunity to be a founding member of a growing team and help shape the way we develop, deploy, and operate production quality systems. In this role, your work will make a significant impact on our customers, stakeholders, and ability to continue to scale.

We need someone with significant experience building for the web, strong consumer product instincts, and the ability to work independently across teams.

What you'll do

  • Help define, shape, and implement the best UX for both existing features and new ones - with a strong influence over our product roadmap
  • Collaborate closely with our customer success team, other engineers, and various stakeholders to explore opportunities, validate ideas, ship high-impact growth initiatives, and track/measure results.
  • Shape frontend architecture and UI standards, guide technical decisions from state management and component structure to evolving our internal design system, refining shared patterns, and ensuring our interfaces remain consistent, accessible, and scalable across the platform.
  • Communicate regularly with other stakeholders, partners, and customers to solicit requirements, seek feedback, and provide updates.
  • Drive experimentation - implement A/B tests, track key metrics, optimize conversion and engagement, and drive stronger acquisition and retention.
  • Leverage TypeScript+React, Relay, INTERCAL, and GraphQL to build beautiful user interfaces and experiences.


Qualifications

Candidates do not need prior experience with any specific technology - we are looking for candidates who are excited to learn new frameworks. That said, a strong understanding of Javascript, TypeScript, and modern browser technology is a hard requirement.

  • Solid experience building interactive, user-facing applications with modern web tech. You should come with a set of opinions and calibrated taste based on years of experience and scars and triumphs and failures.
  • You've owned a user-facing product surface end to end - from the UX decisions through the definitions of success metrics. For most people that's 8+ years, but we care about the evidence, not the number.
  • Strong consumer-facing product experience and deeply developed instincts (ideally including work on funnels and conversion flows)
  • Demonstrable proficiency and a track record of professional success coding in at least one programming language (in addition to Javascript and TypeScript)
  • Enjoy working in a collaborative environment where engineers are expected not only to build great technology, but also to define project vision, specify technical strategy, and always be learning
  • Experience presenting to audiences and communicating effectively and empathetically with clients and other stakeholders
  • You care about metrics and user behavior as much as polished UI

Strong preference will be given to candidates who have experience:

  • Building software that small business owners or financial professionals actually use day to day
  • As a technical leader (team lead or management experience)
  • Developing AI agents and utilizing LLMs in user interactions


Compensation / Benefits

In addition to a salary range of $200k - $240k for this position, we provide equity grants as well as a competitive benefits package (health insurance, dental insurance, vision coverage, home office setup, unlimited paid leave, 401k starting this year, and more).

This is a role that can be filled for either remote candidates or those based in New York, NY. We are not able to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

About Brilliant.org

Brilliant.org is an American for-profit company and associated community that features problems and courses in mathematics, physics, quantitative finance, and computer science. It operates via a freemium business model.
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