Product Engineer

Location: San Francisco-HQ, New York

Department: Engineering

Location Type: HYBRID

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

The Role

What Youll Do

• Own product features and experiences end-to-end, from understanding the customer problem through design, development, launch, and iteration.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape product requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and determine the best solution for customers.
• Talk with and learn from customers and customer-facing teams to understand pain points, workflows, and opportunities to improve our products.
• Build across the stack, including customer-facing interfaces, backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure.
• Turn ambiguous problems into simple, intuitive, and scalable product experiences.
• Prototype and iterate quickly to validate ideas and get useful products into customers hands.
• Use customer feedback, product data, and business context to continuously improve what youve built.
• Make thoughtful technical and product tradeoffs between speed, quality, scalability, and customer impact.
• Take responsibility for the quality and reliability of the products you ship, including testing, deployment, monitoring, and debugging.
• Contribute to product and technical strategy as Forage expands its platform and builds new products.
• Improve the tools, systems, and engineering practices that help the broader team build and ship better products.

What Were Looking For

• Strong product instincts and an ability to understand the why behind what youre building—not just the technical requirements.
• Experience working across the stack and a willingness to move between frontend, backend, APIs, and infrastructure depending on what the product needs.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, break down complex problems, and independently drive projects forward.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, debugging, performance, and maintainability.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product, Design, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to balance speed and pragmatism with long-term technical quality.
• Strong communication skills and a willingness to share perspectives, challenge assumptions, and incorporate feedback.
• A strong sense of ownership—you care about whether the product actually solves the customers problem, not simply whether the code works.

Preferred Technical Experience

• Backend: Python, Django, REST APIs
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS
• Mobile: React Native
• Infrastructure: AWS, cloud-native architectures
• Systems: Distributed systems, asynchronous processing, scalable APIs
• Data: Relational databases, data modeling, query optimization
• Engineering Practices: Automated testing, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and modern development workflows

Our Offer

• Expected salary range: $145k-$195k USD base salary, plus equity and benefits. Depending on Experience
• Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
• 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents. 
• Enjoy regular team lunches at our New York or San Francisco offices, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
• A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
• A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.