Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer — React Native, Node.js, Next.js

Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer — React Native, Node.js, Next.js

• $120k – $180k • 0.2% – 1.0%
• Remote (Everywhere) • Palo Alto
• 5 years of exp
• Full Time

Job Location Palo Alto

Remote Work Policy Onsite or remote

Hires remotely in Everywhere

Visa Sponsorship Available

RelocationAllowed

Skills

• React Native
• NodeJS
• ComfyUI

About the job

Senior Full-Stack Product Engineer — React Native, Node.js, Next.js

We’re building a fast-growing consumer AI product that helps people create funny, highly shareable content for their friends.

We’re looking for a strong mid-level engineer who wants more than a queue of tickets. You’ll work directly with the founder, own meaningful parts of the product, and help decide what we build—not just how we build it.

This is a high-autonomy role on a small team. You’ll move quickly, talk to users, ship across mobile, web, and backend systems, and see the direct impact of your work.

What you’ll do

• Own features from initial idea through launch and iteration

• Build polished consumer experiences in React Native and Next.js

• Develop APIs, background jobs, and product logic with Node.js

• Integrate AI models for image, video, audio, and conversational experiences

• Improve product quality, performance, reliability, and development speed

• Work directly with the founder on product decisions and technical tradeoffs

• Use customer feedback and product data to improve what you ship

• Help shape our engineering standards as the team grows

• Our stack

• React Native and Expo

• Next.js and React

• Node.js

• Firebase and Firestore

• OpenAI and other generative AI APIs

• Stripe

• Mixpanel

• Vercel, heroku, and cloud infrastructure

• You do not need experience with every technology on this list. You should be comfortable learning quickly and taking ownership across the stack.

• You may be a great fit if you

• Have strong experience building and shipping real products with JavaScript or TypeScript

• Have worked with React Native, React, Node.js, or similar technologies

• Can take an ambiguous product problem and turn it into a thoughtful, reliable solution

• Care about the quality and usability of what customers experience

• Move quickly without creating unnecessary complexity

• Communicate clearly and proactively

• Can debug problems across mobile, frontend, backend, and third-party services

• Want meaningful responsibility rather than a narrowly defined engineering role

• What we care about

• We care less about credentials and more about judgment, ownership, and the quality of your work.

• The best engineers here are people who can balance speed with craftsmanship. They know when to keep a solution simple, when to dig deeper, and when to challenge an assumption. They do not wait for every requirement to be perfectly defined before making progress.

• Experience with consumer products, mobile apps, generative AI, media processing, or early-stage startups is valuable, but not required.

• Why this role is different

• Real ownership

• You won’t be handed tiny pieces of someone else’s roadmap. You’ll own important product areas and have a real voice in how they work.

• Direct access to the founder

• You’ll work closely with the founder instead of navigating layers of management, meetings, and approvals.

• A product people actually use for fun

• We’re building consumer software designed to entertain people and help them connect with friends—not another internal dashboard or generic AI wrapper.

• A small, ambitious team

• Your ideas and output will matter immediately. You’ll help establish how the product and engineering organization operate as we grow.

• Strong compensation and meaningful equity

• We want great people to participate in the value they help create. This role includes competitive compensation and a meaningful equity package.

• What success looks like

Within your first few months, you will have:

• Shipped meaningful features used by real customers

• Taken ownership of at least one major product area

• Improved parts of the product or codebase that were slowing the team down

• Developed a strong understanding of our customers and product

• Become someone the team trusts to turn ideas into high-quality releases

• What we care about

• We care less about credentials and more about judgment, ownership, and the quality of your work.

• The best engineers here are people who can balance speed with craftsmanship. They know when to keep a solution simple, when to dig deeper, and when to challenge an assumption. They do not wait for every requirement to be perfectly defined before making progress.

• Experience with consumer products, mobile apps, generative AI, media processing, or early-stage startups is valuable, but not required.

• Why this role is different

• Real ownership

• You won’t be handed tiny pieces of someone else’s roadmap. You’ll own important product areas and have a real voice in how they work.

• Direct access to the founder

• You’ll work closely with the founder instead of navigating layers of management, meetings, and approvals.

• A product people actually use for fun

• We’re building consumer software designed to entertain people and help them connect with friends—not another internal dashboard or generic AI wrapper.

• A small, ambitious team

• Your ideas and output will matter immediately. You’ll help establish how the product and engineering organization operate as we grow.

• Strong compensation and meaningful equity

• We want great people to participate in the value they help create. This role includes competitive compensation and a meaningful equity package.

• What success looks like

Within your first few months, you will have:

• Shipped meaningful features used by real customers
• Taken ownership of at least one major product area
• Improved parts of the product or codebase that were slowing the team down
• Developed a strong understanding of our customers and product
• Become someone the team trusts to turn ideas into high-quality releases

About the company

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