Product Engineer, Frontend

Role Description

Hence is hiring an early product engineer to own the product surfaces where people experience AI-powered financial planning. This is a frontend-focused role, but not a narrow frontend role.

• Lead the web and mobile experience across React, React Native, and Expo.
• Shape new AI-native interaction patterns for financial planning.
• Flex into backend, infrastructure, agents, data flows, and product strategy whenever that is the shortest path to shipping something excellent.
• Work directly with the Head of Engineering as one of the first engineering hires.
• Be a builder with strong product taste, high agency, and a demonstrable track record of using AI and agentic engineering tools to ship better software faster.

What You’ll Do (The Day-to-Day)

• Own major parts of the Hence product experience across web, iOS, and Android.
• Design and build intuitive conversational, interactive interfaces for financial and life planning that feel like a partner, not a web form.
• Turn ambiguous product ideas into polished, production-ready experiences with strong UX, performance, accessibility, reliability, and observability.
• Build in TypeScript across the stack when needed, including frontend, API contracts, data fetching, auth flows, background jobs, and integrations.
• Help define our frontend architecture, component system, design patterns, mobile/web code-sharing strategy, and product engineering standards.
• Use agentic software engineering tools and workflows as real leverage, not as demos: prototyping, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, code review, documentation, and operational automation.
• Contribute to the product’s AI layer, including multi-model orchestration, LLM UX, evaluation loops, tool use, reliability, latency, cost, and failure-mode handling.
• Work closely with founders, customers, and early users. Ship quickly, watch what happens, and iterate.

Qualifications

• You have built and shipped high-quality product experiences that real users depend on.
• You are excellent with React, TypeScript, modern frontend architecture, state/data management, and production UI performance.
• You have strong product and design judgment.
• You are genuinely AI-native in how you build.
• You are comfortable moving beyond the frontend when needed.
• You can operate in a seed-stage environment where requirements are incomplete, priorities change, and ownership is broad.
• You communicate clearly, write things down, make good tradeoffs, and prefer shipping small, high-quality increments over disappearing into large speculative rewrites.
• You work well in a remote, distributed environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with React Native, Expo, TanStack Query/Router, Tailwind, Uniwind, HeroUI, Cloudflare, PostgreSQL, PlanetScale, Terraform/OpenTofu, or AI observability/evaluation tooling.
• Experience building financial, data-heavy, regulated, privacy-sensitive, or consumer trust-heavy products.
• Experience with LLM-powered UX, streaming interfaces, agent orchestration, tool-calling, evals, retrieval, structured outputs, or multi-model systems.
• Experience as a founder, founding engineer, product engineer, design engineer, or high-agency early startup builder.

Our stack

• TypeScript across frontend and backend.
• React; React Native and Expo.
• TanStack Query, Router, and related tooling.
• Tailwind, Uniwind, and HeroUI.
• PlanetScale Postgres.
• Deep Cloudflare integration across application, hosting, performance, and security.
• Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Multi-model agentic orchestration across Anthropic, OpenAI, and other model providers.

How we work

• We are a fully remote, distributed team.
• Periodic in-person get-togethers will be integral to our operating cadence.
• We prioritize outcomes & output over set schedules.
• We value clear writing, high ownership, fast iteration, direct communication, and thoughtful async collaboration.
• As an early engineer, you should expect broad ownership, frequent context shifts, and a high degree of autonomy.

Compensation

• Base salary: $150,000–$215,000, plus meaningful early-stage option equity.
• Final compensation will depend on level, experience, location, and scope of responsibility.
• This role is open to candidates based in the United States.

How to apply

Please include:

• Resume or LinkedIn profile and a portfolio.
• GitHub, shipped product, demo, technical write-up, or other proof of work.
• We are especially interested in seeing examples of AI-native or agentic engineering work.