# Software Engineer, Product
**Company:** [Kaizen Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kaizen-labs)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $130K-$200K
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Prisma, AWS, Cursor, Copilot, Claude
**Posted:** 2026-04-20
> Builds full-stack AI-powered features for government services platform, including intelligent intake flows, case routing, and constituent portals. Requires 2-4 years experience with React/Next.js, Node/TypeScript, Postgres, and AI coding tools; hybrid in NYC.
## Job Description
## What You'll Own

- Full-stack features from zero to shipped - scoping, architecture, build, iteration
- AI-powered product surfaces: intelligent intake flows, real-time constituent assistants, automated case routing, agency operator dashboards
- Direct engagement with federal agency stakeholders - translating messy real-world requirements into clean, shippable product
- Platform reliability and performance at government scale - real users, real SLAs, no hiding
- Code quality that the next engineer will respect: clean, tested, maintainable

## What You'll Bring

- 2–4 years of professional engineering experience - or work that makes the years irrelevant
- Deep fluency in **React** / **Next.js** and **Node.js** / **TypeScript** / **Postgres** - not just comfortable, but fast
- AI coding tools (**Cursor**, **Copilot**, **Claude**) are already baked into how you work - you're not planning to explore them someday, you've shipped with them
- Something real you've built - a product, an open source project, a thing you couldn't stop working on
- You operate well with ambiguity. You don't wait to be handed the answer.
- You actually care whether the person on the other end of the screen has a good experience

## Strong Candidates May Also...

- You've touched federal, state, or local government tech - or you understand the constraints of building for regulated, high-stakes environments
- Cloud deployment experience (**AWS**, **Vercel**, **GitHub Actions**, **ECS/Fargate**)
- Exposure to design systems and component libraries - you know the difference between a component that's functional and one that's right
- You've worked in an early-stage environment where figuring it out was the job
**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/software-engineer-product-at-kaizen-labs-3ce14b25-509a-4a98-a8b3-78f7429b744d
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