Founding Product Engineer

Role Description

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing technology company building critical infrastructure that powers high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms. We are seeking a Founding Product Engineer with experience in YC-backed or Venture backed start-ups to work closely with Product, Design, customers, and engineering leadership to turn ideas into production products.

• Build new product capabilities from concept to production.
• Work closely with Product and customers to identify high-value problems.
• Develop full-stack features across frontend, backend, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Rapidly prototype and validate product ideas.
• Own features end-to-end from architecture through deployment.
• Use customer feedback to iterate quickly.
• Build scalable foundations without over-engineering.
• Improve developer experience, testing, and product reliability.
• Contribute to product and technical strategy.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack product engineering background.
• Experience building products from early-stage concepts.
• Strong product sense and customer empathy.
• Ability to move quickly while maintaining engineering quality.
• Strong communication and ownership.

Requirements

• AI/ML product experience.
• Startup or scale-up experience.
• Experience with TypeScript, React, Python, or similar.
• Experience building 0→1 products.

Benefits

• Full benefit package and competitive compensation.
• Opportunity to work on complex systems and large-scale integrations.
• Collaborative, fast-moving environment with ownership encouraged.
• Meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.
• Opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems and work with modern technologies.