Product Engineer

About the job

Appwrite is looking for someone who will play a critical role in shaping, refining, and enhancing our product from its initial concept to its launch. Collaborating closely with diverse teams, including Platform Engineers, Designers and Growth teams, you'll transform innovative ideas into highly crafted products that align with our company objectives and meet developer expectations. Your expertise will be key in devising solutions to potential challenges encountered during the early stages and throughout the process. 

Responsibilities

• Develop product ideas and solutions based on user interest and experience collaborating closely with Product Designers and Platform Engineers.

• Collaborate with designers to implement animations and micro-interactions to elevate the user experience and increase engagement.

• Utilize your expertise in Frontend technologies to architect scalable and efficient solutions, focusing on performance, reliability and quality. 

• Take charge of product quality testing throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring robust performance and reliability.

• Support developers during feature launches, by collaborating with designers to resolve issues that may arise.

• Uphold the product's integrity as its guardian, striving for utmost relevance, seamlessness, and excellence to deliver an exceptional developer experience.

• Offer not just problem identification but proactive solutions that enrich the developer experience.

• Perform market analysis on competing products and brands to provide key insights in aiding strategy.  

• Proficient in browser rendering techniques to optimize user interface experiences and ensure seamless functionality across various web platforms.

• Optimize the frontend codebase for performance, focusing on Core Web Vitals (Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, Cumulative Layout Shift) and other key metrics to ensure a fast, responsive, and visually stable user experience.

• Integrate accessible design principles into frontend development, including semantic HTML markup, ARIA attributes, and first-class keyboard support.

Requirements

• Competent in core front-end programming languages like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. 

• Passion for crafting beautiful transitions, animations and micro-interactions in our product and website. 

• 3+ years of professional experience in product engineering or a similar role

• Knowledge of product management methodologies like Agile product development, ability to scope and plan projects

• Experience in contributing towards a design system

• A portfolio that demonstrates experience in working on top-notch products with an eye for detail

• Experience partnering cross-functionally to release features, products, and/or services within a tight timeframe

• Takes pride in creating an exceptional developer experience

• Strong eye for visual details and verbal communication skills

• Strong feeling of ownership and bias for action to help raise the bar of quality across the team

Benefits

🏠 100% Remote

Our entire company is distributed, so we take remote work seriously. If you’d rather not work from home, we will cover the cost of a coworking or office space.

📈 Stock Options

Get generous stock options for a company that is growing blazing fast and is backed by top VCs 

🕰 Flexible Hours & Days

We're a remote team working in different time zones, from UTC+06:00 to UTC-06:00. Choose the hours and days that work best for you!

🏥 Healthcare

Employees receive generous medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Full-time contractors will have the cost of healthcare factored into their salary. Our recruiting team can help confirm which applies to you.

❤️ Github Sponsorship of Your Choice

We would love to give an annual sponsorship to any GitHub project of your choice!

🎓 Learning

Appwrite provides $3,000 USD for employees to attend conferences, take classes, or otherwise further their education.

✈️ Gatherings

We typically meet up couple times a year in person for work and fun! What will be our next location? NYC, London, LA, or Barcelona? Help us decide!

🖥 Top Notch Equipment

Appwrite will let you choose a new laptop of your choice (up to $3,000 USD) and will reimburse up to $500 USD for office expenses.

🧦 Unlimited SWAGS

At Appwrite, we really love Swags. Each new team member gets unlimited credits to grab any official Appwrite Swag that they wish.