Senior Product Engineer

GrowthFactor • Cambridge, MA

8d

About The Position

GrowthFactor is the AI analyst for commercial real estate. It makes expansion analysis as easy as asking a question, then grounds every answer in a model tailored to your brand, so you can open the right locations, faster. Ask where to grow in plain English and see the answer on a live map. We're looking for a Senior Product Engineer on our Product Engineering team. You will put companies in physical buildings where they belong. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape both the technical foundation and the product direction of a company at an early and critical stage. We care about what you’ve done, not how long you’ve done it for. You will write your own tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Designed & shipped a full-stack application involving heavy data model manipulation in Python or TypeScript.
• Coordinated queries across disparate data sources with an eye towards speed
• Designed, built, and maintained data pipelines to unify multiple different data sources, at different frequencies, using a common orchestration tool (e.g., Dagster, Airflow)
• Built an application that involved multiplayer and/or client-side sync
• Showed a lot of data on a screen really fast

Nice To Haves

• 4+ years of experience with backend development using Python and/or TypeScript
• 4+ years of experience with relational databases and data modeling, including schema design, normalization, and query optimization in PostgreSQL
• Experience building or integrating with AI agents, LLM-based workflows, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling
• Experience working with geospatial data, including storage, querying, or visualization (e.g., PostGIS, GeoJSON, or similar)
• Familiarity with sync engines or real-time data synchronization patterns (e.g., Zero, ElectricSQL, or similar)
• Experience defining and driving technical strategy across a small engineering team, including establishing standards, reviewing architecture, and mentoring engineers
• Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high degree of ownership

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and technical direction across the full stack, backend, frontend, and data services.
• Build and ship product features
• Raise the technical bar for the team through architecture review, code review, and hands-on mentorship
• Identify and eliminate complexity and technical debt before it becomes a blocker
• Prototype and evaluate new technologies and make principled decisions about what belongs in the stack

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree