Product Engineer

Yuzu • New York City, NY

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Yuzu Health is rebuilding health plan administration with a platform designed to replace disconnected vendors, hidden fees, and opaque pricing. The platform helps employers manage health spending, expands healthcare access, provides price transparency to members and providers, and simplifies eligibility for brokers.

Product engineers own features and outcomes end-to-end. They work directly with customers and the operations team to identify product gaps, navigate ambiguous problems, make product decisions, and ship features from 0 to 1 without a product manager in the middle. The role spans frontend, backend, databases, APIs, and deployment.

Yuzu has a small, technical team and an in-person culture. The company values clear communication, independent reasoning, autonomy, craftsmanship, and questioning conventional approaches to healthcare. Engineers may take on work outside their formal job title and are expected to ship, learn, and iterate. The role is required to be in person five days per week at the NYC office near Union Square.

Requirements

• Ability to build and ship features end-to-end across frontend, backend, databases, and deployment.
• Strong problem-solving ability and comfort learning unfamiliar languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Comfort with ambiguity, change, and independently reasoning through tradeoffs.
• Interest in product decisions and understanding how customers use the product.
• Attention to detail in user experience, architecture, error states, and edge cases.
• Use AI tools such as Cursor, Codex, Claude, or a preferred CLI as a core part of software development.
• Ability and willingness to work in person five days per week in the NYC office.

Nice To Haves

• Former founder or interest in becoming a founder.
• Experience with payments, security, or compliance-related problems.
• Experience scaling systems with 100,000 to 1 billion transactions.
• Experience rapidly building 0-to-1 product experiments, from initial concept to shipped MVP.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers and the operations team to identify product gaps.
• Find clear approaches to ambiguous problems and make product decisions.
• Own outcomes and deliver features end-to-end, from frontend through backend, databases, APIs, and deployment.
• Build and ship new features and product experiments from 0 to 1.
• Navigate system complexity while keeping the product simple where it matters.
• Pay close attention to user experience details, error states, and edge cases.
• Ship, learn, and iterate in a fast-changing environment.

Benefits

• Equity
• Unlimited vacation days
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with 1% match
• Unlimited AI tokens and tool budget, including tools such as Cursor, Claude, and Codex
• Apple equipment
• Free daily lunch and food and drinks
• $3,000 reimbursement for classes and conferences

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed