Product Engineer

About the role

We started with a simple idea: the things you use most often should be the best things you own. This led us to invent. Opal has been working on new things that may surprise even you. So much has changed in technology, and so much of technology is stuck in the lab. Opal is building a series of new devices that give consumers exciting new abilities. It's more than cameras.

Focus: Engineer full-stack solutions with intuitive user interfaces for customers and internal teams, enabling secure, low-latency communication between users, devices, and services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with hardware, firmware, and design teams to bridge devices with cloud and mobile experiences.
• Architect and implement real-time APIs that integrate with web and mobile.
• Optimize data pipelines for low-latency multimedia and AI-driven applications.
• Develop manufacturing dashboards, admin portals, and field-service tools that ensure reliability and quality at scale.
• Design secure, seamless server-side OTA update systems and dashboards.
• Create and manage user account flows that connect hardware, mobile, and cloud.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack applications.
• Fluent in JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node.js), comfortable with Python for backend/AI integration, experienced with databases (SQL/NoSQL).
• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined.