Product Engineer (Backend or Fullstack)

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Full Time
No Travel Required

Skills

Python
Big Tech - come from this environment
Start-Up environments
Backend or Fullstack
Deep Ownership
Strong sense of urgency
provide product direction
infrastructure
experience building and scaling distributed systems
proven track record of shipping user-facing products
Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Experience with regulated industries

Job Details

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end development of new products from concept to launch, with a focus on rapid iteration in production environments

  • Design, build, and scale backend infrastructure that supports voice AI applications

  • Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and deploy new tools, features, and workflows

  • Address compliance and regulatory requirements within fintech infrastructure and systems

  • Collaborate directly with the founding team and early employees to shape both the technical architecture and overall product vision

Must-Have Qualifications

  • Expert-level proficiency in Python (rated 10/10)

  • Minimum of 4 years of experience as a software engineer, ideally with exposure to LLM-focused companies

  • Professional background that includes both large-scale tech firms (e.g., Google, Meta, Dropbox) and fast-paced, high-growth startups

  • Strong academic credentials, preferably from top-tier institutions such as Stanford, MIT, or Carnegie Mellon

  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems

  • Demonstrated success in delivering user-facing products to production

  • Comfortable operating in dynamic, fast-moving startup environments

  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills; thrives in collaborative settings


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in regulated industries such as finance or healthcare

  • Familiarity with large language models (LLMs) or natural language processing (NLP) systems

  • Prior teaching assistant (TA) experience in rigorous computer science courses

  • Understanding of auto loan servicing or broader consumer finance operations

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