Senior Product Engineer
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Role Details
Company: US-based enterprise AI startup
Location: New York, New York
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: In-office
Salary: $200,000–$400,000
Experience: 3–8 years
Visa Sponsorship: Available
Company Size: Approximately 30 employees
About the Company
An early-stage, venture-backed AI company building an intelligent platform for enterprise software teams. Its technology helps businesses modernise legacy systems, automate complex workflows, resolve production issues, and significantly improve engineering productivity.
About the Role
The company is hiring a Senior Product Engineer with strong engineering skills and exceptional product judgment. The role involves building products on top of an AI platform, with end-to-end ownership across backend systems, integrations, and user-facing applications.
The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building and launching successful products from scratch, ideally as a founder or early-stage startup engineer. They should be comfortable identifying opportunities, making independent product decisions, and delivering solutions in a fast-moving, AI-native environment.
Responsibilities
Build and own products end to end, from initial concept to production.
Develop backend services, enterprise integrations, and customer-facing applications.
Improve AI agent reliability through evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and feedback loops.
Identify customer problems and translate them into product opportunities.
Design and implement solutions independently, without relying on detailed specifications.
Use modern AI coding tools and agent technologies to accelerate development.
Contribute to product direction and technical strategy as the company grows.
Requirements
Proven success building and launching products from zero to one; founder experience is a strong advantage.
Strong end-to-end engineering capabilities across backend and frontend development.
Experience with Python, JavaScript/React, Go, or similar technologies.
Solid cloud infrastructure experience, particularly AWS, and familiarity with infrastructure as code.
Strong product sense and the ability to make effective UX decisions.
Practical understanding of AI coding assistants, frontier models, and agent architectures.
Ability to solve ambiguous problems, work autonomously, and take ownership of outcomes.
Benefits
Full Health insurance
Dental
Vision
Interview Process
Introductory conversation with a co-founder.
Technical interview with a founding engineer.
Second technical interview with another founding engineer.
Paid, on-site work trial lasting 1–3 days.
Offer and hiring.
Required Screening Question
Can you work on-site in New York City five days a week?
🌍 Remote from anywhere in the globe
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.
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