Software Engineer (Product)

About the role

This role is well-suited to engineers who have built products from zero to one, led significant initiatives at growth-stage companies, or are looking to grow from senior to staff+ level scope at an early-stage company.

Responsibilities

• Own a full product line, including roadmap definition, technical architecture, implementation, and measurement of outcomes.
• Work directly with customers through sales calls, customer Slack channels, and discovery conversations to identify and prioritize what to build.
• Build across the full stack: React and Next.js on the frontend, scalable backend systems, durable third-party integrations, and LLM pipelines tuned to near-perfect accuracy.
• Work directly with Rachit and Will on weekly product and architecture decisions.
• Set the bar for engineering quality and shipping velocity as one of the first ten hires.
• Week 1: First PR shipped to production.
• Day 15: Owning your first feature end to end, including the customer conversations that scoped it.
• Day 60: Leading a product line, with customers using what you built daily.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience building a product from zero to one, or leading a high-impact technical initiative at a growth-stage or larger company.
• Strong product instincts. You can sit in a customer call and know what to build next without being told.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication. You can write a Loom that moves a deal forward and a PR description another engineer can review in two minutes.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently. We give you the goal, not the steps.
• Expertise across complex frontend and backend systems, including React, Next.js, background job infrastructure, and database architecture.

Qualifications

• You want detailed specs handed to you and a clear queue of tickets to work through.
• You prefer to specialize narrowly. Product engineers at Centralize work across the full stack and across product surfaces.
• You want a slower pace. We work hard and move quickly. Please only apply if that excites you.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered products to production with rigorous evaluation practices.
• Direct exposure to enterprise sales cycles, whether participating in or observing customer calls.
• Prior experience as a founder, founding engineer, or early engineer at a top-tier early-stage company.