Founding Product Engineer (YC experience)

Department: Work with our Clients

Location: San Francisco, Sacramento, New York, Los Angeles, Boston , Seattle

Employment Type: FullTime

Location: United States — Remote
Compensation: $200,000–$350,000 USD
Start Date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English required
Type: Full-time

About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing technology company building critical infrastructure that powers high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms.

We are seeking a Founding Product Engineer with experience in YC-backed or Venture backed start-ups to work closely with Product, Design, customers, and engineering leadership to turn ideas into production products.

What You'll Do

• Build new product capabilities from concept to production.

• Work closely with Product and customers to identify high-value problems.

• Develop full-stack features across frontend, backend, APIs, and infrastructure.

• Rapidly prototype and validate product ideas.

• Own features end-to-end from architecture through deployment.

• Use customer feedback to iterate quickly.

• Build scalable foundations without over-engineering.

• Improve developer experience, testing, and product reliability.

• Contribute to product and technical strategy.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.

• Strong full-stack product engineering background.

• Experience building products from early-stage concepts.

• Strong product sense and customer empathy.

• Ability to move quickly while maintaining engineering quality.

• Strong communication and ownership.

Nice to Have

• AI/ML product experience.

• Startup or scale-up experience.

• Experience with TypeScript, React, Python, or similar.

• Experience building 0→1 products.

Why Join?

Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations, offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems, large-scale integrations, and real-world technical challenges.

You'll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged, decisions are made quickly, and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems, work with modern technologies, and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.

Full benefit package and competitive compensation.

Pragmatike is committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

In accordance with GDPR, your personal data will be processed lawfully, fairly, and securely, and used solely for recruitment purposes, including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration. You may request access, correction, or deletion of your data at any time. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.