Product Engineer - NYC
Builds revenue-critical backend systems including AI-powered approval workflows, intelligent collections agents, and scalable billing infrastructure. Ships reliable production code end-to-end, focusing on distributed systems, customer needs, and high-velocity event processing.
About the job
What you'll be doing
- AI-powered approval workflows: Build flexible routing configured in natural language that turns into deterministic, auditable business logic.
- Intelligent collections agent: Instruct in natural language to run autonomous workflows for chasing late payments.
- Scaling billing infrastructure 10x: Rethink storage, horizontal scalability, and handle 10x load without 10x cost.
Design systems that process high-velocity event streams, balance cost and performance at scale, and ensure reliability for revenue-critical infrastructure.
You should apply if
- Shipped production backend systems and care about reliability.
- Care about customers and understand why you're building.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, thrive in ideation, adapt based on feedback.
- Communicate clearly.
- Interested in distributed systems and resilient software.
Nice to have: Deep relational database expertise.
Tech stack
Backend: Kotlin (Http4k, Spring Boot, Exposed, Result4k)
Storage: Postgres, BigQuery
Async messaging: Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Terraform
Frontend: TypeScript, React
Monitoring: Google Cloud Monitoring, Sentry
Tools: GitHub, Slack, Notion, Linear
What we offer (New York)
Salary: $180,000 to $190,000
Equity: Meaningful share options
Vacation: 20 days plus national holidays
Benefits: Competitive healthcare and 401K
Visa sponsorship: Available
Skills
Kotlin, Postgres, BigQuery, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, GCP, Terraform, TypeScript, React, Spring Boot, Http4K
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