Posted on 2025/12/13
Product Engineer ($210K - $250K) at a YC-backed AI platform
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San Francisco, CA, United States
Qualifications
- Early, high growth stage startup where your work shapes product direction and user experience from the ground up
- Build a product designed to open software creation to non coders, expanding access and impact
- Full stack scope across frontend, backend, AI integrations, deployment, and UX
- Work closely with a small founding team of about five people, giving you high ownership, fast iteration, and steep learning
- 5-10+ years of engineering experience, ideally full stack with a frontend lean
- Comfortable working in a small, fast moving team with high ownership and autonomy
- Strong communication skills and ability to simplify complex technical concepts for users
- Able to use AI tools productively while exercising strong engineering judgment
- Committed to improving code quality and maintainability with each change
Benefits
- USD $210,000–$250,000 base + ~1%–1.50% equity
Responsibilities
- A high-impact full-stack Product Engineer role creating the no-code/AI-powered web-app builder that lets non-technical users build software — simplifying how people build for the web
- You’ll join as a core engineer building intuitive UX around complex web-app infrastructure
- Your mission: turn intimidating technical abstractions (APIs, databases, deployments) into simple, empowering flows for non-technical users — effectively democratizing app building
- Define, design, and build new full stack features such as analytics, AI integrations, and payments to help non technical users launch apps
- Simplify technical parts of the platform, such as environments, database migrations, and debugging flows, through clearer UX and feedback
- Improve telemetry and instrumentation to surface user friction and AI performance issues, then propose and implement improvements
- Reduce time to value for new users by creating UX flows that help them go from idea to working app quickly
- Refine the core AI agent experience, handle failure cases gracefully, and build editor tools for modifying UI without code
- Partner with growth and product teams to support onboarding, adoption, and feature rollouts
Full Description
Who We’re Hiring For
A YC-backed startup building an AI platform that empowers anyone to build full-stack web apps without coding.
Role Snapshot
A high-impact full-stack Product Engineer role creating the no-code/AI-powered web-app builder that lets non-technical users build software — simplifying how people build for the web.
Compensation
USD $210,000–$250,000 base + ~1%–1.50% equity.
WhatThis Role Is About
You’ll join as a core engineer building intuitive UX around complex web-app infrastructure.
Your mission: turn intimidating technical abstractions (APIs, databases, deployments) into simple, empowering flows for non-technical users — effectively democratizing app building.
Location
San Francisco, CA, US (hybrid: ~3 days onsite in SF)
What Makes This Opportunity Exceptional
• Early, high growth stage startup where your work shapes product direction and user experience from the ground up.
• Build a product designed to open software creation to non coders, expanding access and impact.
• Full stack scope across frontend, backend, AI integrations, deployment, and UX.
• Work closely with a small founding team of about five people, giving you high ownership, fast iteration, and steep learning.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
• Define, design, and build new full stack features such as analytics, AI integrations, and payments to help non technical users launch apps.
• Simplify technical parts of the platform, such as environments, database migrations, and debugging flows, through clearer UX and feedback.
• Improve telemetry and instrumentation to surface user friction and AI performance issues, then propose and implement improvements.
• Reduce time to value for new users by creating UX flows that help them go from idea to working app quickly.
• Refine the core AI agent experience, handle failure cases gracefully, and build editor tools for modifying UI without code.
• Partner with growth and product teams to support onboarding, adoption, and feature rollouts.
Who Will Thrive in This Role
• 5-10+ years of engineering experience, ideally full stack with a frontend lean.
• Comfortable working in a small, fast moving team with high ownership and autonomy.
• Strong communication skills and ability to simplify complex technical concepts for users.
• Able to use AI tools productively while exercising strong engineering judgment.
• Committed to improving code quality and maintainability with each change.
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