Senior Product Engineer
About the role
We’re looking for a Product Engineer who combines strong engineering fundamentals with product thinking and ownership. You’ll ship features end-to-end, help shape product direction, support users through bug triage and fixes, and contribute to backend architecture and AI-related workflows. This role works closely with the CEO and a small engineering team, so it requires someone proactive, opinionated, thoughtful about tradeoffs, and comfortable operating with high ownership in an early-stage environment.
What you'll do
- Build and ship features across backend, frontend, and data layers with strong end-to-end ownership.
- Contribute to product direction rather than only executing predefined tasks.
- Help design systems for scale, including customer data relationships, architecture decisions, and system design thinking.
- Spend part of the day handling bug triage, understanding user issues, and owning fixes independently.
- Translate technical issues for non-technical users and help troubleshoot user-reported problems.
- Work on AI data pipelines and related infrastructure, with emphasis on practical, current production experience.
- Review work critically, including identifying weak architecture, poor assumptions, or issues in implementation.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience is the baseline, though the team may target more senior candidates where needed for architecture depth.
- Strong full-stack engineering background with a backend lean; ideal split is roughly 75–80% backend.
- Strong experience with Node.js, Express, and TypeScript.
- Strong system design skills and experience architecting software for scale; multi-tenant SaaS experience is valuable, but equivalent scale-oriented architecture experience is acceptable.
- Able to take ownership over architecture decisions, edge cases, user intent, and the full development lifecycle.
- Comfortable explaining complex technical concepts clearly across a mixed-language team.
About Near
At Near, we help top talent in Latin America find remote roles with US companies. Our mission is to create better lives by fostering a remote work culture that transcends borders.
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