Product Engineer (Mid-Level)

About the Role This is a full-stack product engineering role at an early-stage AI startup in the recruiting and talent space. You'll work closely with a small founding team — spanning product and design — to own features end-to-end, integrate AI/LLM capabilities into core product flows, and help shape the technical foundation as the company scales. What You'll Do Own product features from scoping through deployment, including API design, data modeling, and frontend and backend implementation. Ship user-facing experiences that balance usability and performance, iterating based on feedback and metrics. Integrate LLMs and AI services into production product flows in a reliable, user-focused way. Design and implement scalable backend services, data schemas, and operational tooling including CI/CD, monitoring, and automated testing. Collaborate directly with founders, product, and design to prioritize work and define success metrics. Participate in architecture and roadmap discussions, making pragmatic tradeoffs suited to early-stage growth. What We're Looking For 2–8 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing products. Strong full-stack skills: TypeScript and React/Next.js on the frontend; Python or Node.js on the backend. Experience with PostgreSQL and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP . Hands-on production experience integrating LLMs or AI services (engineering focus, not research). Solid product sense — ability to translate user problems into practical, measurable solutions. Comfortable operating in small teams with limited process, high ambiguity, and shifting priorities across frontend, backend, and DevOps. Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and automated testing as part of CI/CD pipelines (metrics, tracing, logging, health checks). Familiarity with multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems, real-time architectures, and high-throughput application design. Experience in or familiarity with regulated industries (healthcare, fintech, legal) or complex internal tooling is a plus. Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor or similar) is a bonus. Compensation & Benefits Salary range: $150,000 – $300,000 USD annually . Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Location On-site in San Francisco, California, United States .