Product Engineer

About RetailPath

The Role

• Get energized turning messy customer problems into elegant product solutions
• Want a real hand in shaping what RetailPath becomes, and not just executing someone else's roadmap
• Take ownership instinctively, without waiting to be asked
• Do your best work in person and are excited to be in the office

• Thrive in established processes and clear org structures
• Need well-defined requirements before you can move
• Prefer execution over decision-making

Practically we look for:

• Experience solving ambiguous problems and scoping projects independently
• Early stage compatibility of moving fast and experimenting
• Incredible communicator and able to move from technical to high level depending on context
• Ability to design and complete projects end to end with minimal oversight
• Strong frontend (ts/next/react) and backend (python/fastapi/postgres) experience
• Cloud experience with GCP or an equivalent provider
• Know how to wrangle LLMs to do your bidding
• Proficiency with tools like Figma, v0, Claude Design, etc -- or your tool of choice! We are always looking to push our workflows.

It would be great if you had:

• Knowledge of wholesale retail or CPG brands and how they operate in tandem with related systems like EDI, ERPs, and 3PLs
• Have built agents using tools like CrewAI/Pydantic AI/etc
• Comfortable being customer facing

How we work

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• We have a strong in office presence and expect you in office
• Ownership and autonomy: drive projects from start to finish without micromanagement
• Unblock quickly: collaborate directly with customers to keep momentum
• Clarity and organization: communicate status and next steps clearly

What success looks like

• First Week
  • Dev environment setup
  • Running local builds and tests
  • Architecture and business walk through
  • First PR merged
• 15 Days
  • Clear understanding of the codebase and core architecture
  • Taking on small and medium tickets
• 60 Days
  • Independently scoping, developing, testing, and shipping features
  • Identifying tech debt and proposing remediations
  • Building depth in our domain and user pain points
• Beyond
  • Leading cross-functional initiatives with customers and internal stakeholders
  • Architecting and implementing major features or system improvements
  • Mentoring future product engineer hires and contributing to hiring decisions
  • Driving technical strategy and influencing product roadmap

Compensation