Consumer Electronics

Senior/Staff Product Engineer

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimeStaffPosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

0-to-1 product capabilities
production software
early-stage company
limited process
shifting requirements
direct customer input
TypeScript
React
Node.js
SQL

Nice to have

AI agents
tool calling
RAG
vector search
evaluation
sandboxed execution

Role summary

Echelon is seeking a Senior/Staff Product Engineer to build the AI platform for Business Operations. This role involves taking ambiguous customer problems from concept to production, covering frontend, APIs, data models, workflows, and AI interactions. You will ship 0-to-1 product capabilities using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, design secure APIs and data models, and build agent workflows. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of experience in production software development, particularly in early-stage or ambiguous environments, with strong skills in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and SQL. Experience with distributed systems, security, and product judgment is crucial. Useful experience includes AI agents, cloud platforms like AWS, and workflow orchestration tools.

About Echelon

Echelon is building the AI platform for Business Operations. Our goal is to automate the knowledge work of BizOps so one exceptional operator can deliver the leverage of an entire team, as Ramp and Rippling have done for Finance and HR.

Our platform combines passive process mining with a living ontology that maps how work happens across people, systems, documents, decisions, and outcomes. It connects structured and unstructured data trapped in fragmented, duplicative, and legacy enterprise systems, then turns that context into automated workflows and AI agents.

We are an early-stage company tackling a difficult technical problem at high speed. Engineers work directly with founders and customers, make decisions with incomplete information, ship production systems, and own the results. The pace, rate of change, and standards are high.

The mandate

Take ambiguous customer problems from conversation to production software across the frontend, APIs, data model, workflows, and AI interactions. We need an early-stage builder who ships quickly, makes sound tradeoffs, and operates what they build.

What you'll own

Ship 0-to-1 product capabilities across React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and asynchronous workflows.
Build clear experiences for exploring processes, relationships, evidence, recommendations, and automated work.
Design secure multi-tenant APIs, data models, and migrations.
Build agent workflows with tool execution, retrieval, document processing, streaming, and human review.
Strengthen shared primitives for authorization, background jobs, storage, observability, and integrations.
Work directly with customers to understand operational problems, test assumptions, and iterate in production.
Own production performance, failures, and recovery for the systems you ship.
Set a high engineering bar through focused tests, direct review, and simple durable architecture.

What you bring

4+ years building production software, including proven 0-to-1 delivery at an early-stage company or similarly ambiguous environment.
Experience shipping with limited process, shifting requirements, and direct customer input.
Strong TypeScript, React, and backend service development in Node.js or a similar environment.
Strong SQL and relational data modeling, including safe schema changes and performance debugging.
Experience with distributed jobs, retries, idempotency, and external APIs.
Strong instincts for security, tenant isolation, and least privilege.
Product judgment: you can simplify a workflow, challenge a requirement, and decide what should not be built.
Comfort with a high rate of change, direct feedback, and full accountability for outcomes.

Useful experience

AI agents, tool calling, RAG, vector search, evaluation, or sandboxed execution.
AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, S3, RDS, or customer-managed deployments.
Inngest, Temporal, WorkOS, OpenAPI, or typed ORMs such as Drizzle.
Enterprise operational data across finance, people, contracts, projects, or collaboration systems.
Complex data visualization, graph interfaces, collaborative editors, or workflow builders.

Benefits

Team lunches and dinners in the office.
On-site Gym access for all employees.
Fully covered health, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) plan.
Access to AI Tooling of your choice.
Unlimited PTO.

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