Principal Product Engineer

In this role, your responsibilities would include

• Have a proven track record of leading small cross-functional teams of engineers to deliver high-quality releases on time.
• Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development of one or more of Typescript, React, and Elixir.
• Be prepared to own the software architecture top-down across their team’s functional area.
• Champion the adoption of AI technologies in the development lifecycle to accelerate delivery and elevate engineering standards.
• Have a consistent attention to detail in their work that inspires others to ship better code.
• Have advanced knowledge of the security, performance, and operational requirements of running code in a production environment.
• Evaluating possible technical implementations and consulting with leadership on decision making.
• Conducting code reviews and ensure the team is shipping complete features and producing quality code.
• Advocating for best practices and continually iterate on internal processes to empower the engineering team to produce top-notch work.
• Assisting in the hiring process of a growing engineering team.
• Investing in mentoring to help the rest of the team grow their skills.
• Be comfortable working in a small company including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.
• Adapting well to a quickly moving environment.

Required Experience

• Previous experience leading cross-functional engineering teams. Our teams are typically between 4-6 engineers, with a mix of seniority between frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to enhance engineering productivity, code quality, and team velocity.
• Substantial expertise building frontend with React and Typescript or backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix.
• Previous experience working with relational databases.
• Previous experience working with Typescript and GraphQL.
• Previous experience working with DevOps (infrastructure and deployments).

Preferable Experience

• Experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe.
• Experience with Vercel and Next.js.
• Understanding of Postgres databases design and optimization.
• DevOps know-how, specifically deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes with Terraform.