Product Engineer

AppAxis is a company that believes in integrating product management and engineering roles to enhance their workflow. They are seeking a Product Engineer who will own the entire lifecycle of product development, from client interaction to coding and deployment.

Responsibilities:

• The person who ships the thing and decides what the thing should be
• Our Product Engineers own the entire lifecycle: talking to clients, understanding the domain problem, designing the architecture, writing the code, and shipping it to production
• You're not handing a spec to someone else. You are the spec
• And the implementation
• And the person who answers the phone when something breaks at 2 AM (though our systems rarely break at 2 AM, because you built them well)
• You've shipped production systems in at least one of our industries — not just written code for them, but understood why the code mattered to the business
• You can stand up a Supabase or PostgreSQL schema, a Next.js frontend, and a deployment pipeline, and you don't need someone to tell you which order to do them in
• You've run a product discovery call with a client and come back with a plan that engineering, design, and business all agree on — because you are all three
• Your GitHub profile looks like a person who actually builds things, not a person who stars repos
• You've read an RFP, a regulatory framework, or an industry spec sheet and thought "I could build something better than what they're asking for"

Requirements:

• You've shipped production systems in at least one of our industries — not just written code for them, but understood why the code mattered to the business
• You can stand up a Supabase or PostgreSQL schema, a Next.js frontend, and a deployment pipeline, and you don't need someone to tell you which order to do them in
• You've run a product discovery call with a client and come back with a plan that engineering, design, and business all agree on — because you are all three
• Your GitHub profile looks like a person who actually builds things, not a person who stars repos
• You've read an RFP, a regulatory framework, or an industry spec sheet and thought 'I could build something better than what they're asking for'
• You've held an operational or leadership role in healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, construction, field services, law, IoT, or government
• You can explain a complex industry workflow to an engineer and a complex technical tradeoff to a CEO — in the same meeting
• You've been the person who said 'that's not how this industry actually works' and saved a project from expensive failure
• You have opinions about why most industry software is terrible, and those opinions are informed by years of being forced to use it
• You can look at a system architecture diagram, an API spec, or a data model and have an informed opinion — you don't write the code, but you can tell when the code is solving the wrong problem
• You've worked a room before — a trade show, a networking event, a bar — and left with contacts who actually remembered your name
• You can explain something technical in plain language without sounding like you're reading a brochure
• You've cold-emailed, cold-called, or cold-DM'd someone and gotten a response through sheer persistence and personality
• You're more interested in building something from scratch than inheriting a playbook
• People describe you as 'a lot' and you take it as a compliment