Senior Product Engineer – React, Node.js, UX

Senior Product Engineer – React, Node.js, UX

About the Project & Team

We started Lingo.dev at a hackathon and, after winning the best dev tool award, we just kept building. It evolved into a developer-loved toolkit with hundreds of active users, 7,000 weekly CLI runs, 5,000 GitHub stars, and over 100 million translated words. We've graduated from the world's best tech accelerator (Y Combinator) and raised venture funding to continue building developer tools that must exist but don't yet.

We're a small, fully remote team of senior engineers who like to work hard on interesting problems. We value computer science craft over corporate politics and love building tools for developers - including ourselves. Recently we started getting more feature requests than we can ship, so we're excited to expand the team.

Please don't use AI to apply. We're an AI-native company, so we'll notice if you do. We want to know how you think and write.

Job Functions

• Design, develop, and grow the Lingo.dev web application - routing, navigation, onboarding flows, user experience, performance

• Design, develop, and scale the backend API - encapsulation, API design, security

• Design and maintain the database layer (PostgreSQL)

• Contribute across the full stack when needed to ship features end-to-end

• Build and maintain third-party integrations

• Contribute to our open-source devtools (CLI, AST-based compiler) when needed

• Take full ownership of features from design to deployment: draft technical designs, review with founders, implement end-to-end with tests and documentation

• 3 sprints of product roadmap work, 1 cooldown sprint (customer feature requests, improvements, bug fixes)

• Weekly Demo Days with the senior engineering team

Requirements

• Built a product, app, or side project that others have used - could be a tool for a friend, a small SaaS, anything real people relied on

• 5+ years of production experience with TypeScript and Node.js

• Expert React knowledge - Suspense-first patterns, skeleton loaders, loading states

• Experience with SSR, CSR, and SSG

• Deep expertise with React routing libraries

• Built or contributed to design systems / component libraries used by others

• Experience designing navigation, onboarding flows, and user journeys

• Backend experience with Node.js (Express.js or similar) and PostgreSQL

• Experience designing production-ready APIs

• Experience with authentication and authorization systems

• CS degree or equivalent - algorithms, data structures, system design

• Prior remote work experience in distributed teams

• Since it's much more fun to brainstorm ideas and solve tricky CS challenges live, we expect you to be available 7-10am San Francisco time daily

• Fluent English

• Deep knowledge of AI coding tools and workflows - you use them daily and know how to get the most out of them

Optional Skills

• Experience with Cloudflare platform (Workers, etc.)

• Experience with Row-Level Security (RLS) in Supabase/PostgreSQL

• Experience with background job workflows

• Built an AI agent before

• Contributed to a design system or React component library used by other teams

• Experience with observability and monitoring

• Open source contributions

• Speaking multiple languages is a plus

• You love Remix, React Router, TanStack Router, or TanStack Start

Benefits

• Health insurance

• Flexible working hours

• Small team working directly with founders

• Work directly with customers using your tools

• Occasional travel to meet the team in person

• Conference and learning budget

Interview Process

1. Screening Call (Technical/Cultural Fit)

2. Live Coding / Technical Project: Evaluating CS fundamentals and architectural depth (algorithms, system design)

3. Final Deep Dive (System Design & Partnership)

After passing the interviews, there's a one-month paid trial period. It's intense - we'll work closely together on real features to make sure we work well together.

Do Not Apply If

• You are looking for passive, hands-off remote work with minimal team interaction

• Uncertainty makes you uncomfortable - you prefer detailed specs over figuring things out as you go

• You are unwilling to prioritize customer needs over your preferred patterns or tools