Sr Product Engineer

The role

You will own features end-to-end, from database schema to React components, by working with the founding team and early customers. You will build an AI-powered product and use AI tooling to scale the platform.

What you will do

• Work closely with the founding team and early customers to build a world-class AI-powered product.
• Own features end-to-end including backend architecture and frontend implementation.
• Partner with the designer and product team to translate user needs into shipped experiences.
• Engage in the entire application lifecycle including coding, debugging, testing, and deploying.
• Operate as a force multiplier with AI tooling using coding agents.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Willingness or eagerness to own frontend work
• Experience developing products built on top of LLMs / ML
• Proficient in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, containerization and scaling microservices
• Comfortable in (or excited to ramp on) TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling
• Experience building products from zero to one
• Ability to seek and find the right resources for solving open-ended problems
• Daily, hands-on use of modern coding harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalent)
• Comfortable building and consuming MCP servers
• Strong point of view on AI-assisted code review, automated testing, and quality
• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area or willing to relocate
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Nice to have

• Experience working in a small startup environment (Seed or Series A)
• Genuine full-stack experience
• Understand data lake / data warehouse
• Understand Transformer / Attention / GPU inference
• Experience with AWS, Supabase, LaunchDarkly & Betterstack
• Built your own MCP servers, custom agents, or internal AI dev tooling
• Published, blogged, or shared opinions about modern AI-assisted development workflows

Benefits

• Hyper-competitive base salary range based on experience
• 100% Health coverage + Vision + Dental
• 20 days PTO + 10 Federal Holidays
• $250 per month in wellness allowance

About the company

Alma is an AI-native law firm that combines AI with a legal team to deliver legal services. They focus on simplifying complex immigration processes for companies and individuals.