Product Engineer (Mid-Level)

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

This is a full-stack product engineering role at an early-stage AI startup in the recruiting and talent space. You'll work closely with a small founding team — spanning product and design — to own features end-to-end, integrate AI/LLM capabilities into core product flows, and help shape the technical foundation as the company scales.

What You'll Do

• Own product features from scoping through deployment, including API design, data modeling, and frontend and backend implementation.

• Ship user-facing experiences that balance usability and performance, iterating based on feedback and metrics.

• Integrate LLMs and AI services into production product flows in a reliable, user-focused way.

• Design and implement scalable backend services, data schemas, and operational tooling including CI/CD, monitoring, and automated testing.

• Collaborate directly with founders, product, and design to prioritize work and define success metrics.

• Participate in architecture and roadmap discussions, making pragmatic tradeoffs suited to early-stage growth.

What We're Looking For

• 2–8 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing products.

• Strong full-stack skills: TypeScript and React/Next.js on the frontend; Python or Node.js on the backend.

• Experience with PostgreSQL and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.

• Hands-on production experience integrating LLMs or AI services (engineering focus, not research).

• Solid product sense — ability to translate user problems into practical, measurable solutions.

• Comfortable operating in small teams with limited process, high ambiguity, and shifting priorities across frontend, backend, and DevOps.

• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and automated testing as part of CI/CD pipelines (metrics, tracing, logging, health checks).

• Familiarity with multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems, real-time architectures, and high-throughput application design.

• Experience in or familiarity with regulated industries (healthcare, fintech, legal) or complex internal tooling is a plus.

• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor or similar) is a bonus.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 – $300,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.