Product Engineer (Software Engineer)

Job description

### About the Role A well-funded fintech startup is looking for a **Product Engineer** to help build financial products that optimize taxes, bridge paychecks, and build credit for consumers. You'll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business leaders to ship high-impact features for a growing base of paying users — directly contributing to their financial wellbeing. ### What You'll Do - Build product features end-to-end, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations. - Practice a data-driven, incremental approach to product development, shipping toward bold milestones. - Leverage robust data pipelines and analytics infrastructure — using SQL and other analysis tools — to evaluate product and system performance. - Test and debug complex state machines in an event-driven, pub/sub backend to ensure a seamless user experience. - Ship to production daily via a rapid CI/CD process, owning implementations end-to-end and responding to production incidents as needed. ### What We're Looking For **Must-haves:** - Experience with **Go (Golang)** deployed on **GCP**. - Direct **consumer product experience** — you've built for end consumers, not exclusively B2B. - Proficiency in designing and consuming **RESTful APIs**, including authentication/authorization patterns and rate limiting. - Experience with **relational databases** (PostgreSQL/MySQL), including data modeling and query optimization. - Hands-on experience with **CI/CD pipelines**, version control, automated testing, and code review processes. - Experience with **event-driven architectures and message queues** (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) for scalable data pipelines. - Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. - Strong CS fundamentals. **Nice to have:** - Background at a startup (preferred over Big Tech, though Big Tech experience is welcome). - Experience in fintech or financial services. ### Compensation & Benefits - **Salary:** $120,000 – $200,000 USD annually, depending on experience. - Visa sponsorship is available. ### Location This is an **on-site role based in San Francisco, CA**. Candidates should be prepared to work from the office.