Product Engineer

## About you You’re a product engineer who leans front-end but is comfortable diving across the stack. You thrive in startup environments, have strong technical chops (React / Next / Node / TypeScript required), and you want to build tools and experiences that empower others. You’re excited by experimentation, high-leverage product problems, and a company culture that celebrates creativity and developer-first thinking. We celebrate craft and nerd out about bringing obsessive attention to detail in our products. ## The role You will join our product engineering team working across our SDK and the web application, collaborating closely with product and design. Your work will impact both end-users of [](http://tldraw.com) and enterprise customers building on our SDK. Key responsibilities include: - Build, maintain and scale core features of the tldraw web app and SDK (React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript) - Collaborate with design, product and engineering to shape new experiences: ideate, prototype, ship and iterate - Contribute to and maintain developer-facing documentation, code samples and SDK usage patterns (ensuring our SDK remains world-class) - Monitor performance, reliability, and developer-gravity of our platform; proactively identify friction points and improve them - Participate in an experimental culture: build viral demos, iterate fast, embrace creative tooling ideas - Work across the stack when needed: focus on UI and interaction design but able to also help maintain backend services and APIs ## You should have - Strong hands-on experience building modern web applications using React, Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript - Experience on high-agency teams where you’ve shipped meaningful features and helped shape the product - Excellent problem-solving mindset. You can navigate ambiguous, high-leverage problems and drive them to completion - Clear communication skills, and the ability to engage with product/design/engineering as well as external developer users - Demonstrated strong product + frontend competence as well as proficient knowledge in backend systems - Based in or willing to relocate to London / able to work at the Finsbury Park office ## We’d love (but don’t require) - A passion for building developer tools, SDKs or platforms is a strong plus - Side projects or contributions to open-source communities ## What you’ll get - Competitive salary + equity options - Hybrid working model (office in Finsbury Park; mix of remote + in-office) - 25 paid days holiday + UK public holidays - Private health insurance - Pension contribution - Income replacement & employee assistance programmes - Equipment allowance + great tech stack - Opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help shape the future of creative collaboration ## About tldraw tldraw is a London-based Series A startup building *the* go-to infinite canvas primitive for collaborative products needing a web-native surface. With 70k+ X (Twitter) followers, 43k+ GitHub stars, and a vibrant community of makers and builders, the brilliant folks working at tldraw strive to be a modern-day equivalent of Xerox PARC for creative tooling. We’re innovative, experimental, and boundary-pushing. Come bring your expertise to the table!