• Do you love solving customer problems and building, but don't want to be limited by your title? Can you not only code a frontend but also have the eye for aesthetic and intuitive design?
• Do you prefer writing your own backend logic, rather than waiting on a backend ticket to be completed before you can be unblocked? If so, we'd love to have you!
• Does the idea of interactive animations and storytelling excite you? Do you love beautiful design? Have you ever worked with animated graphics? Whether that's motion design, gaming, stop motion, or frame by frame animation, we'd love to hear from you!
• Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help when you get stuck
• Put users first: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad
• Scrappy and Experimentation-driven: Beyond UX design research and Figma UIs, you understand that sometimes the best way to figure out a solution is to be scrappy and build functional versions.
• You thrive in testing various hypothesis live with users, learn and iterate quickly towards a high-quality solution
• Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about the business impact of what you're building, and you prioritize projects accordingly. You're not just going after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
• Shipping quality user interfaces: You can work with others to build and maintain quality user interfaces, using Web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern UI framework like React. If you've experienced the technical challenges of rapid growth, that's a plus
• Familiarity with the backend: You understand how parts of a system fit together—from the user interface to the data model. Experienced candidates should be familiar with relational database systems like Postgres or MySQL
• Not ideological about technology: To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go
• Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real-time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed
• Team player: You understand when work is better, together. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same

Desirable

• Our product engineers are unicorn developers who work across frontend, backend, and design
• Our product engineer role leaves you free to be creative and not feel that your role is limited to one language. We build our teams around solving customer problems, not around a tech stack
• You'll work with others to build new product features from start to finish: through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance. For example, you might build a tool for editing bezier curves, starting with how does a user think about drawing lines, and finishing with how can I render curves and handles in realtime over a network
• You'll help improve performance and reliability, or polish existing features. For example, you might make rendering 10x faster, or you might halve the latency between a user in Asia and a user in Europe
• You'll build internal tools to support simplicity and productivity for the whole team. This might include writing a script to automate database seeding for a new feature