Product Engineer

The role

We don't hire engineers to take tickets. We hire them to build products. You’ll own the lifecycle of delivering products end to end. Shape ideas with Product Managers, build it alongside your engineering peers, ship it, measure it and help decide what happens next.

You'll build for one of the largest industries in the US and one of the least digitized. Plenty of contractors still run payroll off paper timesheets, spreadsheets and a foreman's memory. The rules are hard. Multi-rate overtime, prevailing wage, certified payroll, union agreements and crews moving between job sites every day. Getting that right in software is the work.

What we build is changing shape too. More and more, Workyard does the checking so the office doesn't have to. It flags the missed punch, the wrong cost code and the overtime nobody approved before payroll runs. Designing how contractors come to trust that, one workflow at a time, while each piece still delivers value today, is a big part of this role.

What you need

Your Skills (Non negotiable)

You've owned a product end to end. You've taken something meaningful from idea to production, written the code and stayed accountable for whether it worked. Roughly 3+ years building and shipping production software.
You're a strong full-stack engineer. You write clean production code with sound fundamentals. This role needs range with a front-end lean, not deep systems specialization.
You design data models that hold up. You've designed the data model and architecture for a real product, not just built on top of one. You think about how records relate, how they change over time and what happens when an integration sends something messy.
You spend time with the people you build for. You have a habit of wanting to understand the people who use what you build, and you can point to things you built differently because of it.
You have high standards for simple experiences. Something that technically works isn't good enough. The higher bar is judging if something is simple to use and easy to understand.
You find the simpler path. You weigh customer impact against engineering effort together, and often find a cheaper way to get the same result.
You have a viewpoint on agentic experiences. You've thought about how a product can take work off someone's plate, starting with suggestions they approve and moving through to earning trust to take tasks they can hand off completely.
You communicate clearly and work well with others. You can explain a technical decision to a customer, a sales rep or an engineer and have each of them understand it. You ask for input early and bring people along instead of working around them.
You prototype early. When you have an idea, your first move is to build a rough version with AI tools and test it.
You're comfortable without a map. You work well with loose direction and lots of autonomy. When a problem is fuzzy, you help shape it instead of waiting for a spec.

Who you are

You're an engineer who also is a product thinker. You'd rather understand the research yourself than be handed a spec, and you'd rather ship something rough on Tuesday than something perfect next month. You care about the code, but you care more about whether it changed someone's day in the field.

You solve problems with other people, not around them. You challenge assumptions, make your case and change minds
You want to understand the customer’s problem, own the experience and build it yourself
You're excited that AI lets you code faster and better, because it frees up more of your time for product thinking

Product Engineer

The role

Product Engineer

The role

What you will do

What you need

Your Skills (Non negotiable)

Who you are

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