Senior Product Engineer

City of New York•New York, NY

9d•$100,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation builds technology, products, and services intended to make New York City more affordable. The team designs, builds, and launches public-facing products for New Yorkers. Senior Product Engineers work across the stack to design, build, and ship resident-facing products. This is a hands-on role involving close collaboration with product managers, designers, user researchers, policy teams, and other city employees to turn problem statements into working products and services. The engineer writes code across systems, integrates city agency data sources and legacy systems, and works with policy and legal stakeholders. The role also helps establish modern engineering practices, including the use of generative coding tools, productionization, documentation, product handoffs for ongoing support, and balancing delivery speed with the reliability standards of city government services.

Requirements

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture, and/or IT infrastructure systems; or
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and ten years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture, and/or IT infrastructure systems; or
Education and/or experience equivalent to either of the stated qualification pathways.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship applications from concept to launch, owning end-to-end product components or focusing on frontend, backend, mobile, or data pipeline components as needed.
Work through rapid prototyping, MVP iteration, pilots, and public launches, making pragmatic tradeoffs among scope, quality, and timing.
Build integrations with government data sources, including APIs, flat-file feeds, open data portals, and legacy systems.
Partner with product managers, designers, engineers, and other OTI employees on product decisions; participate in user research and design reviews; and contribute to scoping and prioritization.
Coordinate with the wider OTI team on hosting, performance testing, accessibility audits, and security reviews to meet city quality and production standards.
Work with agency staff, policy advisors, and legal counsel to translate eligibility rules and regulations into clear, accurate product logic.
Write technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture notes to support product maintenance and extension after launch.
Contribute reusable patterns, components, and infrastructure to improve the speed of future projects.
Help shape the engineering culture of the team through code review, mentorship, and onboarding future hires.
Perform special projects and initiatives as assigned.