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Software Engineer, Product & Growth

Recruiting From Scratch
5 days ago
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$160,000 - $280,000 USD yearly
Software / Technology / IT
 
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Software Engineer, Product & Growth

Location - San Francisco, CA (Onsite – 4 Days per Week)

Compensation - $160,000 – $280,000 Base + 0.1%–0.5% Equity

Visa - Visa Sponsorship Available on a Case-by-Case Basis

Company Stage - Early-Stage AI Startup (Series A)

Industry - AI, Productivity Software, AI Agents, Workflow Automation

About the Company

The company is building AI-powered productivity software that helps users automate workflows, coordinate schedules, and interact with intelligent agents across the tools they use every day.

Its platform combines LLM-powered agents with modern productivity workflows to help users manage tasks, scheduling, communication, and collaboration across email, calendars, Slack, and other business applications.

Backed by experienced founders and rapidly growing customer adoption, the company is focused on building practical AI products that solve real user problems rather than AI demos. The engineering team owns products end-to-end, shipping quickly while continuously iterating based on customer feedback.

As a Product & Growth Engineer, you'll own features across the entire product stack—from backend systems and frontend experiences to AI agent capabilities and integrations—while helping shape both product direction and user growth.

This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage AI company where every engineer directly influences product strategy, customer experience, and company growth.

What You'll Do

  • Build product features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and AI agent systems
  • Design and develop new capabilities for AI agents and workflow automation
  • Build integrations with Slack, email, calendar providers, and external platforms
  • Prototype new product ideas rapidly and iterate based on customer feedback
  • Collaborate closely with design, product, and GTM teams to identify customer pain points
  • Design reliable backend services and APIs powering production AI workflows
  • Build scalable systems supporting AI-powered productivity experiences
  • Improve user onboarding, engagement, and product adoption
  • Work directly with users to understand workflows and identify product opportunities
  • Balance rapid experimentation with production-quality engineering
  • Help shape long-term product architecture and engineering best practices
  • Contribute across the full technology stack whenever needed

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience building and shipping production software
  • Experience working at a high-growth startup or well-regarded technology company
  • Experience building customer-facing product features
  • Experience shipping products that incorporate LLMs or AI functionality
  • Experience owning projects from concept through production deployment
  • Experience working closely with product and design teams
  • Experience building production software used by real customers
  • Demonstrated product ownership and execution
  • Startup experience strongly preferred

Technical Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering fundamentals
  • Experience designing scalable production systems
  • Comfortable working full stack when needed
  • Experience with AI/LLM-powered applications
  • Experience integrating external APIs and third-party services
  • Strong understanding of product architecture
  • Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, or similar modern frameworks preferred
  • Experience working with PostgreSQL or relational databases
  • Experience building agentic workflows or human-in-the-loop systems preferred
  • Experience working with graph data, contact graphs, or social network models preferred
  • Strong debugging and performance optimization skills

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field preferred
  • Strong academic background from a top engineering program preferred

Soft Skills

  • Strong product mindset
  • High ownership mentality
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Strong customer empathy
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity
  • Self-directed and proactive
  • Bias toward execution
  • Passion for building intuitive user experiences
  • Startup mentality

Preferred Backgrounds

  • Product engineering teams
  • AI application startups
  • Productivity software companies
  • Workflow automation platforms
  • AI agent startups
  • Early-stage venture-backed startups
  • Collaboration software companies
  • Developer productivity tools
  • Consumer or B2B SaaS startups
  • Engineers building AI-powered customer products

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base Salary: $160,000 – $280,000
  • Equity: 0.1%–0.5%
  • Opportunity to shape core product strategy
  • Significant ownership over product development
  • Direct collaboration with founders
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI agent technologies
  • Rapid career growth opportunities
  • High-impact engineering role
  • Onsite collaboration in San Francisco

Why Join

This is an opportunity to help build the next generation of AI-powered productivity software used by real customers every day.

You'll own features from idea through production while working across backend systems, frontend experiences, AI agents, and external integrations.

As an early product engineer, you'll have outsized influence on product direction, customer experience, engineering culture, and company growth while building practical AI applications that improve how people work.