product engineering lead

The role

You will lead a team building user facing features. You will design and implement end-to-end improvements to the developer experience from UX to the core database.

What you will do

• Design and implement end-to-end improvements to the developer experience from UX to core database
• Help customers understand, monitor, and optimize tpuf workloads
• Manage a team of 3 and support hiring and building the team
• Write crisp docs

Required qualifications

• Product engineering
• Lead engineering teams technically and in people management
• Worked extensively with browser technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/TS) and web apps (databases, APIs)
• Passionate about UX and can think like a product manager
• Driven by solving user problems
• An eye for design
• Domain expertise
• Maintained and iterated on web-based products at scale
• Prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization)
• Typist — can write well and explain complex ideas simply
• Human — builds trust and admits what you don't know

Nice to have

• Experience in the React ecosystem (shadcn/ui, Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel)
• Experience in backend frameworks (Rails, Phoenix, Django)
• An interest in vector and full-text search and experience interacting with tools in the space
• Prior experience with Rust

About the company

turbopuffer is looking for an engineer to lead the team that is building all of our user facing features.