Senior Product Engineer

What you'll do

• Ship user-facing features end-to-end: ideation, technical design, implementation, testing, release, and iteration
• Collaborate with Product and Design to turn complex requirements into elegant, scalable solutions
• Improve the reliability, performance, and security of our payroll, accounting, and tax platforms
• Raise the bar on engineering quality via thoughtful reviews, pairing, testing, and documentation
• Instrument features with analytics and logging; measure impact and iterate quickly
• Own critical product areas with a bias for high-impact improvements
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural investments
• Drive simplicity: reduce cognitive load for users and developers alike

What makes it special

• High ownership: you'll shape what we build and how we build it
• Your engineering decisions directly influence user experience and business outcomes
• Tight feedback loops with customers and internal stakeholders
• Pragmatic pace: ship, learn, iterate, without sacrificing quality

Experience & Mindset

• 5+ years in software engineering with significant product-building experience at a startup or high-growth company
• Proven track record of owning features and services end-to-end and driving measurable customer impact
• Comfortable with ambiguity and discovery; experienced collaborating closely with Product and Design
• You turn constraints into focus, manage your own time, and leave codebases and teams better than you found them
• You simplify complex systems, make good decisions reversible, and build comprehensible plans
• Comfortable using AI coding tools like Cursor, Copilot, or Claude, and able to audit and test AI-generated code

Technical Skills

• Strong in at least two of: TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Python
• Domain Driven Design: solid grasp of domain design and relationships
• Testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end; CI/CD, feature flags, and rollout strategies
• Observability: logs, metrics, traces; familiarity with SLOs and incident response
• Security basics: authN/authZ, secrets management, threat modeling, secure coding practices