Product Engineer

What We Do

We make tools for storytellers — worldbuilders, writers, creators. Our goal is simple: empower people to create worlds, stories, and experiences that others can get lost in.

Who We Are

We are vvd. We are still at the beginning of our own story, and we are looking for a few people to help write the next chapters. We believe in using technology to empower human creativity and craft, not replace it.

What a Product Engineer Means at Vvd

A Product Engineer here is a more technical Design Engineer. You still care deeply about taste, feel, motion, and craft. But you also go further down the stack: data models, APIs, performance, reliability, and the messy systems work needed to ship great product. You are also extremely comfortable with AI tooling. You use it daily (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to explore solutions, generate and refine code, debug faster, and ship at a pace that would be hard to match otherwise.

What You'll Do

• Build features end-to-end: product thinking → implementation → launch → iteration
• Partner tightly with design and engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into shipped product in days, not weeks
• Own UI craft and the underlying technical decisions that make experiences fast, reliable, and scalable
• Shape how we build: patterns, primitives, component quality, testing, and internal tooling
• Use AI tools as a multiplier. You prompt well, iterate quickly, and maintain a high quality bar
• Communicate directly and clearly. No corporate padding

Requirements

• Strong product engineering fundamentals (TypeScript, React, Next.js or similar)
• Enough backend understanding to build features without getting blocked (APIs, auth, data flow, persistence, basic infra concepts)
• Taste. You can feel what's working and what isn't — and you can fix it
• You can go from a rough idea to a polished implementation without waiting for a perfect spec
• You think in systems: performance, edge cases, instrumentation, maintainability
• You use AI tools daily to accelerate your work — not as a crutch, but as leverage

Extra Pluses

• Experience with Figma or similar design tools for rapid prototyping
• Care about accessibility and inclusive UX
• Built interactions and motion that feel good, not just functional
• Read fiction, build worlds, or create things for fun