Product Engineer

Denari•Chicago, IL

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Denari is building the modern software stack for accounting firms: an AI-powered platform that unifies client collaboration, document management, workflow automation, and financial insights in one place. We’re a small, well-funded team with a built-in proving ground. Our sister company, Lucida Tax + Accounting, uses what we build every day, so we hear how a feature landed within hours of shipping it. Your Impact Here Is Only Limited by Your Initiative We are genuinely open to change. If you have an idea and you’re willing to put in the effort, we will back you; whether that’s a new product direction, a better internal process, or rethinking how a whole workflow should work. AI has also changed what counts as "hard." Things that used to be too expensive or time-consuming to attempt are now on the table, and we use that to stay flexible in a way that empowers people. If something was off-limits before because it was "too difficult," that’s an invitation to question it. The Tools You’ll Actually Get to Use We invest heavily in AI tooling and efficiency engineering, and our agents are harnessed directly into the software we work in, which compounds how fast we can move: AI development: Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, and Conductor for running parallel agent workflows Modern stack: Next, oRPC, TanStack-everything, and other current-generation tooling Connected workflow: Linear for project management and Grain for meeting intelligence, both wired into our internal agents Developer experience: 1Password integrated directly into development secrets injection, with seeding, tests, and more wired into Conductor (we care about our dx a lot). A lot of companies don’t get this luxury. We do, and we constantly try new things. If a better tool ships next month, we’ll probably be experimenting with it the week after. How We Work Together This is a hybrid role based in Madison. You’ll spend three days a week in the office with the team, and the rest of the week you’ll work from wherever you do your best thinking. Day to day, the whole team (in-office and remote) shares a digital engineering office in Gather. Drop by someone’s desk to talk through a problem, or set focus time when you need to go heads down and everyone will see it at a glance.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals (how you think matters more to us than your years of experience)
Genuine curiosity about AI tooling, with experience using LLMs or agents in your workflow a plus
Comfort with ambiguity and small-team dynamics
Clear, honest, upfront communication

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship features across multiple products and codebases
Use LLMs and AI agents throughout your workflow wherever they accelerate output
Participate in architectural decisions and help define best practices for scalability, maintainability, and security
Work directly with founders and with real accounting firms using the product
Wear multiple hats; we’re a small startup and the most interesting work often sits between job descriptions
Talk directly with customers: you’ll join calls with the accounting firms using our products, hear problems firsthand, and ship features they care about