# Senior Software Engineer, Product
**Company:** [Kaizen Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kaizen-labs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $180K-$250K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, Cursor, Copilot
**Posted:** 2026-05-04
> Senior full-stack engineer architects and ships AI-powered features for government services platform, sets technical direction, mentors juniors, and engages with agency stakeholders. Requires 5+ years experience with React/Next.js, Node.js/TypeScript/Postgres, and AI coding tools.
## Job Description
## What You'll Do
- Architect and ship full-stack features end-to-end — from scoping and technical design through build, iteration, and production
- Lead the development of AI-powered product surfaces: intelligent intake flows, real-time constituent assistants, automated case routing, agency operator dashboards
- Set technical direction and raise the bar on code quality — your decisions become the patterns the rest of the team builds on
- Engage directly with federal agency stakeholders to translate messy real-world requirements into clean, shippable product
- Own platform reliability and performance at government scale — real SLAs, real users, no abstraction layer between you and accountability
- Mentor earlier-career engineers through code review, pairing, and direct technical feedback

## What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience, with a track record of owning complex features and systems — not just executing on them
- Deep fluency in **React / Next.js** and **Node.js / TypeScript / Postgres** — fast, not just functional
- AI coding tools (**Cursor**, **Copilot**, **Claude**) are already baked into how you work — you've shipped with them, and you move measurably faster because of it
- Something real you've built — a product, an open source project, a system you designed and stood behind
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity: you define the problem as often as you solve it, and you don't stall waiting for the answer to come to you
- A genuine orientation toward the end user — the person on the other side of the screen isn't an abstraction to you

## Strong Candidates May Also...
- Have touched federal, state, or local government tech — or have built in other regulated, high-stakes environments where the constraints were real
- Have cloud deployment depth: **AWS**, **Vercel**, **GitHub Actions**, **ECS/Fargate**
- Have experience with design systems and component libraries — and a clear opinion on when a component is right vs. just functional
- Have led technical work in an early-stage environment where the job was figuring it out, not following a playbook
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