Lead Product Engineer $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Remote · Contractor · $50/hr
This position is for a highly skilled engineer who excels at taking ownership, driving strategic technical decisions, and solving intricate technical problems. You will be responsible for developing the product's most critical features while shaping its technical roadmap and securing long-term stability and expansion. The technical choices you make will have a direct effect on both the product and its user base, granting you the freedom to innovate alongside the accountability to execute.
The products you'll contribute to are reshaping education:
- TeachTap: Uses AI to animate historical figures within a TikTok-style learning platform.
- TeachTales: Captivates students through personalized, enchanting storytelling that enhances comprehension.
- TimeBack: Functions as a learning copilot, integrating seamlessly with existing applications to coach students proactively.
- Athena: Employs AI-generated videos and assessments to produce measurable academic results.
Your role will be to steer the technical advancement of our products, making certain they remain scalable, maintainable, and resilient over time. Working in close partnership with product teams, you will convert broad requirements into concrete technical design decisions and address sophisticated challenges while upholding rigorous quality benchmarks. The choices you make will define the product's trajectory and affect how thousands of students engage with learning.
We emphasize deliberate planning and early-stage design. Our AI-first methodology automates repetitive tasks, allowing you to concentrate on decisions with significant impact and complex problem-solving. You will operate with substantial autonomy and have the opportunity to influence product strategy while emphasizing long-term stability and scalability.
If you are prepared to guide the technical transformation of our SaaS products and harness generative AI to expand what's possible, we want to connect with you.
What you will be doing
- Feature Development: Architecting and building new features with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and sustained product impact.
- Requirement Engineering: Partnering with the product team to clarify requirements and driving technical conversations to ensure features align with product objectives.
- Operations and Maintenance: Overseeing and sustaining product stability, optimizing performance, and proactively detecting and addressing issues.
- Technical Design: Making high-stakes technical decisions that directly influence user experience and product scalability.
What you will NOT be doing
- Jumping between short-lived projects or pursuing the latest hype-driven technology trends.
- Contributing to internal IT systems or outsourced initiatives lacking tangible user impact.
- Being trapped in endless meetings or managing tedious infrastructure problems.
Candidate requirements
- At least 1 year of full-stack development experience, working on front and backend features.
- At least 2 years as the primary technical contributor for a SaaS product, driving strategic technical decisions.
- At least 4 years of experience working on actual SaaS products, not outsourcing or internal IT projects.
- Experience in using generative AI in your day-to-day development work.
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