AI Product Engineer

The role

Product Engineers own meaningful product areas end-to-end from discovery through production and iteration. You will partner with product, design, data, and clinical teams to build secure software across backend, frontend, and data surfaces.

What you will do

• Own meaningful product areas end-to-end from problem framing to production rollout and iteration
• Partner with product, design, data, and clinical teams to shape solutions
• Build and evolve secure, well-tested, observable software across backend, frontend, and data surfaces
• Use data, experimentation, and user feedback to validate solutions
• Operate autonomously in ambiguous environments
• Make trade-offs across speed, safety, technical quality, and maintainability
• Improve engineering systems including AI-native development practices, testing, and documentation

Required qualifications

• Strong production experience building product software in a startup or scale-up environment
• Excellent TypeScript/Node capability
• Comfortable working across APIs, services, data and cloud infrastructure
• Strong product sense
• Comfortable operating autonomously in ambiguous environments
• Solid testing, observability, and reliability instincts
• Fluent with AI-augmented engineering workflows

Nice to have

• Experience in healthcare, digital health, or safety-sensitive regulated software
• Experience with event-driven systems, serverless AWS, relational database design, and infrastructure as code
• Experience with experimentation, analytics, and growth/product instrumentation
• Experience contributing to both backend and user-facing product surfaces
• Experience building products from 0 to 1 in an early-stage environment

Before you apply

• Unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position

About the company

Pelago is a specialty substance use care provider that uses technology to expand access to mental health and substance use treatment. The company has helped more than 750,000 members manage substance use.