Product Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Develop educational products and features from initial concept to final production.

• Collaborate directly with educators, technical teams, and educational partners to gain insights into workflows, challenges, and priorities.

• Transform complex or incomplete requirements into clear, actionable, and usable product solutions.

• Design and create product experiences that seamlessly integrate with learning platforms and educational systems.

• Engage with frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, and data models as necessary.

• Rapidly build prototypes, test them with users, and convert successful concepts into reliable and maintainable products.

• Partner closely with Backend and AI Engineers to ensure technical and AI capabilities are genuinely beneficial for real educational workflows.

• Enhance usability, reliability, performance, and product quality through continuous iteration.

• Independently investigate issues, identify root causes, and drive practical improvements.

• Utilize AI-assisted development tools as appropriate to expedite delivery while ensuring strong engineering judgment and product quality.

• Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of professional software engineering experience in developing production web products or applications.

• Proven experience in building and launching user-facing web products.

• Strong background in modern frontend technologies such as React, Next.js, Vue, or similar frameworks.

• Ability to work across both frontend and backend, with a deeper expertise in at least one area.

• Proficient in TypeScript/Node.js, Python, APIs, databases, and contemporary web application architecture.

• Solid grasp of authentication, permissions, validation, workflows, and data-driven products.

• Experience in transforming incomplete requirements into practical software solutions.

• Strong product judgment and the ability to distill complex user needs into simpler solutions.

• Self-motivated work style, with the confidence to explore, propose, and test solutions rather than awaiting detailed instructions.

• Comfortable communicating with non-technical users and educational partners to gain a better understanding of the product.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, modern cloud platforms, and application deployment processes.

• Strong ownership, debugging, and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficient in written and spoken English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours

• Opportunities for professional development