Product Engineer

🎯 Role

As a Product Engineer, you'll own problems end to end, from architecture to production. You'll work alongside a team that moves fast, adapts quickly, and builds solutions that unlock million-dollar product lines. You'll be at the forefront of applied AI in education, designing the systems, data models, and APIs that deliver transformative learning experiences to millions of users worldwide.

🛠️ Sample projects could include…

• Building a new AI-powered assessment mode that generates personalized practice questions, from prototype to production in 2 weeks.

• Simplifying partner app configuration by creating a responsive admin dashboard in Next.js that eliminates the need for engineering support.

• Designing a graph-based content recommendation engine using Neo4j that increases learner engagement by 25%.

• Modeling the relational schema for a new content pipeline, balancing normalization against real read patterns to keep queries fast across millions of rows.

• Architecting an event-driven ingestion service and drawing the right datastore boundaries between relational and graph systems.

• Improving API response times by optimizing database queries and caching strategies with Redis, reducing latency from 800ms to 120ms.

• Driving adoption of reusable patterns by refactoring a legacy feature into a component library that enables 3 other teams to ship faster.

• Partnering with the Platform team to implement a serverless API using AWS Lambda and LangGraph that processes 10M+ assessment submissions monthly.

🤝 You might be a fit if you…

• Can teach a course on system architecture, schema design, relational and graph data modeling, query performance, and event-driven systems.

• Have deep expertise in modern frontend development using React, performance tuning, and UI state management.

• Apply design patterns and software engineering principles to real-world problems.

• Have shipped LLM-powered features in production.

• Design systems that balance velocity with extensibility.

• Are passionate about solving complex technical problems and ship production-ready code quickly.

• Excel at written communication and async collaboration.

• Are a supportive teammate who enjoys mentoring others through code reviews and pairing.

• Are independent and comfortable owning projects end to end.

• Stay actively engaged in open-source, blogs, or research.

💰 Compensation (California)

• Base salary range (CA): $150,000–$250,000 USD

• Compensation is determined based on level, relevant experience, and scope of ownership.

• This role is open to candidates operating at Senior through Staff-level scope.

• Equity and benefits are offered in addition to base compensation.

We’re happy to discuss leveling and compensation expectations early in the interview process.