Lead Product Engineer $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
- Remote · Contractor · $50/hr
This position is designed for an elite engineer who excels at ownership, strategic impact, and solving intricate technical problems. You will develop the product's most critical features while influencing its technical trajectory and securing its long-term resilience and expansion. The technical choices you make will have direct consequences for the product and its user base, granting you both the freedom to innovate and the accountability to execute.
Your work will focus on products that are reshaping education:
- TeachTap: Uses AI to animate historical figures within a TikTok-style learning format.
- TeachTales: Captivates students through personalized, enchanting narratives that enhance understanding.
- TimeBack: Functions as a learning assistant that connects with existing applications, actively guiding students.
- Athena: Employs AI-created videos and assessments to produce measurable educational results.
You will lead 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 strategic requirements into technical architecture and address sophisticated challenges while upholding rigorous quality benchmarks. Your choices will determine the product's trajectory and affect how thousands of learners engage and develop.
We emphasize deliberate planning and early-stage design. Our AI-first methodology automates routine work, allowing you to concentrate on high-value decisions and complex problem-solving. You will enjoy substantial autonomy and the opportunity to shape product strategy while prioritizing enduring stability and scalability.
If you are prepared to steer the technical transformation of our SaaS products and harness generative AI to expand possibilities, we want to connect with you.
What you will be doing
- Feature Development: Architecting and building new capabilities with an emphasis on scalability, maintainability, and sustained product value.
- Requirement Engineering: Partnering with the product team to clarify requirements and guiding technical conversations to ensure features support product objectives.
- Operations and Maintenance: Overseeing and sustaining product reliability, optimizing performance, and proactively detecting and addressing issues.
- Technical Design: Executing high-stakes technical decisions that directly influence user experiences and product scalability.
What you will NOT be doing
- Jumping between short-lived projects or pursuing the latest hype-driven technology fad.
- Focusing on internal IT infrastructure or outsourced assignments lacking tangible user impact.
- Being trapped in continuous meetings or managing tedious infrastructure complications.
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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