Staff Software Engineer, Product

Accountabilities • Lead the technical direction of product initiatives, including architecture, data modeling, integrations, observability, deployment strategies, and rollback planning.

• Own the full product development lifecycle, from problem definition and technical planning through implementation, production release, and post-launch performance evaluation.

• Use AI coding agents to accelerate software development, designing effective prompts, guardrails, evaluation workflows, testing strategies, and review processes to ensure production-ready code.

• Maintain high engineering standards across security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and user experience, regardless of whether code is written by AI agents or engineers.

• Make independent technical decisions, document architectural choices, seek peer input when appropriate, and involve architecture reviewers for significant decisions.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to prioritize opportunities, define scope, assess trade-offs, and deliver solutions aligned with customer needs and business objectives.

• Work alongside engineering peers in a shared codebase, contributing technical expertise and ensuring alignment across interconnected initiatives.

• Take accountability for initiative-level outcomes, working with product partners to track key metrics such as conversion, retention, professional service-provider engagement, and unit economics.

• Conduct post-launch reviews two to four weeks after release to evaluate results, identify lessons, and determine whether the initiative achieved its intended impact.

• Establish reusable AI development workflows, evaluation tools, runbooks, documentation, and best practices that improve engineering effectiveness across teams.

• Identify and address potential regressions through comprehensive tests, monitoring, staged rollouts, and appropriate quality-control measures.

• Deliver customer- and service-provider-focused improvements in a live marketplace environment, ensuring that technical decisions translate into tangible business and user benefits.

Requirements:

• Extensive software engineering experience operating at a staff or lead level, with a proven ability to make important technical decisions, deliver complex initiatives, and take responsibility for their outcomes.

• Strong, hands-on experience using AI coding agents in daily production development, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent tools.

• Demonstrated ability to direct AI agents through effective prompting, context management, evaluation, testing, and code-review workflows, while maintaining ownership of the resulting code.

• Deep technical expertise in at least one relevant technology stack, supported by credible experience delivering and maintaining production software.

• Experience with one or more of the following technologies: PHP and Laravel; TypeScript, React, or React Native; data platforms such as Redshift, dbt, Segment, and Airflow; or infrastructure and observability tools such as AWS, Datadog, Sentry, and GitHub Actions.

• Strong understanding of software architecture, data modeling, system integrations, testing, deployment strategies, security, performance optimization, and production observability.

• Proven ability to lead initiatives independently, make timely and well-documented technical decisions, and balance autonomy with collaboration and appropriate review.

• Product-oriented mindset, with the ability to translate business goals and customer needs into technical solutions and prioritize work based on measurable impact.

• Experience partnering effectively with product managers, designers, and engineering colleagues in cross-functional teams.

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to interpret performance metrics, evaluate outcomes, and use data to guide future decisions.

• Ability to develop reusable engineering practices and documentation that improve productivity and technical quality beyond individual projects.

• Customer-focused approach, with an appreciation for the needs of both marketplace customers and service professionals.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving skills.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment that values experimentation, continuous improvement, accountability, and high-quality delivery.

• Interest in an individual-contributor role with technical leadership responsibilities; people management is not required.

Benefits:

• Competitive annual base salary of USD $85,000–$125,000 .

• Fully remote work arrangement, with the flexibility to work from anywhere.

• High ownership and autonomy over technical decisions and product initiatives.

• Opportunity to work with modern AI coding agents and help shape AI-assisted software engineering practices.

• Fast-moving, collaborative environment that encourages building, learning, and professional growth.

• Opportunity to influence products used by customers and service professionals in a substantial, active marketplace.

• Scope to expand technical leadership and contribute reusable tools, workflows, and engineering standards across teams.

• Potential pathway into people management for those interested in exploring management responsibilities in the future.

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