Senior Product Engineer
About The Position
GrowthFactor is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join their Product Engineering team. This is a high-ownership role focused on shaping both the technical foundation and product direction of an early-stage company. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving architecture and technical direction across the full stack, building and shipping product features, raising the technical bar for the team through reviews and mentorship, identifying and eliminating technical debt, and prototyping new technologies. The company aims to solve the fragmentation and inefficiency in commercial real estate workflows by providing a platform for data collaboration and analysis.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
