Senior Product Engineer

The role

You will be a hands-on senior engineer who designs and ships production code on a Python (FastAPI), React and Postgres stack. You will also help set technical direction, work with Product and Design, and raise code quality for the team.

What you will do

• Own the technical delivery of key product initiatives across Python (FastAPI), React and Postgres.
• Partner with the Head of Engineering and Chief Product & Technology Officer to turn product vision into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews and design sessions.
• Make tradeoffs between speed, scalability, maintainability and customer value.
• Build production software as a core individual contributor.
• Improve practices around testing, observability, deployment, code quality and operations.
• Work with Product, Design, Data Science and the Forward-Deployed Team on complex customer problems.
• Simplify systems, improve developer experience and reduce technical debt.
• Help assess and welcome engineering candidates.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with end-to-end ownership of complex projects.
• Strong full-stack development experience.
• Working knowledge of SQL, including schema design and data pipelines (experience with schema design and data pipelines is listed as a plus, so only query and relational data knowledge is required).
• Experience building scalable, secure, production-grade SaaS applications.
• Deep understanding of modern software architecture, APIs, distributed systems and cloud-native development.
• A track record of raising code quality through your own work and reviews.
• Strong product judgment.
• Strong collaboration and excellent written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS and modern deployment practices, including CI/CD, observability, monitoring and infrastructure management.
• Experience building data-intensive products or analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with experimentation, statistics or machine learning concepts.
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows.
• Experience in an early-stage, high-growth SaaS startup.
• Experience building products for enterprise customers with complex technical environments.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits.
• Equity.
• Health Benefits.
• Opportunity to learn and collaborate with Andrew Ng, Erik Brynjolfsson, Andy McAfee and Daniel Rock.
• Opportunity to help build a company, culture and products from the ground up.
• High-trust, high-autonomy work environment.

Before you apply

• Selection is based on qualifications, merit and business needs.
• Candidates from other object-oriented programming backgrounds are considered if they can ramp quickly.
• A test or check in the hiring process is not stated in the posting.

About the company

Workhelix is an enterprise SaaS company that helps organizations get value from their AI investments. It combines expertise in economics, AI and data science, and its work is backed by Andrew Ng and cofounders Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson.