What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Engineer - NYC position at Partiful?
Partiful's mission is to cultivate friendships through social events.
We believe parties (and other social events) are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests — download the app to see how it works!
We're building new ways to streamline planning, connect meaningfully in the real world, and make connections between friends-of-friends. Our ultimate vision is to power everything you do in-person with your friends, eliminating the friction of bringing your most memorable experiences to life. You can read more about our mission in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Wirecutter, and USA Today. Partiful was also recently named Google’s Best App of 2024, a Finalist for Apple’s App Store Awards, and Apple’s App of the Day.
Our company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, and advised by the founders of some of the most successful consumer social products ever made.
The Role
We're looking for thoughtful, creative engineers to help bring our vision to life. As a Product Engineer, you'll build core features and own large product areas across our mobile and web apps, while optimizing our systems and infrastructure. We're NY- and LA-based with a hybrid in-person model, in the office 3 days a week. Our stack is React (web app), React Native (mobile app), Node.js, and Typescript.
In This Role, You Will
We're an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We're proud to be a diverse team, and actively work to bring new perspectives to the table.
We believe parties (and other social events) are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests — download the app to see how it works!
We're building new ways to streamline planning, connect meaningfully in the real world, and make connections between friends-of-friends. Our ultimate vision is to power everything you do in-person with your friends, eliminating the friction of bringing your most memorable experiences to life. You can read more about our mission in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Wirecutter, and USA Today. Partiful was also recently named Google’s Best App of 2024, a Finalist for Apple’s App Store Awards, and Apple’s App of the Day.
Our company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, and advised by the founders of some of the most successful consumer social products ever made.
The Role
We're looking for thoughtful, creative engineers to help bring our vision to life. As a Product Engineer, you'll build core features and own large product areas across our mobile and web apps, while optimizing our systems and infrastructure. We're NY- and LA-based with a hybrid in-person model, in the office 3 days a week. Our stack is React (web app), React Native (mobile app), Node.js, and Typescript.
In This Role, You Will
- Build end-to-end features across our web app (React, Node.js, Typescript) and mobile app (React Native)
- Ship technical improvements to scale performance, speed, and stability
- Suggest improvements to our product and processes
- Help to prioritize features and projects based on data, user feedback, and company goals
- Scope features and projects, including writing product requirements documents and technical design documents
- Meet with users to get product signal and feedback
- Work closely with our designers to craft thoughtful UX/UI
- Collaborate with our community team to learn how our product is being used
- Own large product surface areas as you grow
- Help drive improvements in code quality and engineering best practices
- Mentor (and be mentored by) other engineers at the top of their game
- Attend really cool parties
- Have 2-10 years of full-time software engineering experience in a startup or high growth environment, staying long enough to see the impact of your technical decisions
- Have strong product chops
- Love beautiful design
- Are detail-oriented
- Ship high-quality code quickly
- Delight in delighting users
- Can elegantly structure and decomp complex features
- Generate clever solutions when faced with constraints
- Put ego aside when making decisions
- 401(k) with up to 6% matching
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSAs and HSA plans available)
- Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services
- Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships
- Unlimited vacation (minimum 3 weeks required)
- Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product
- Quarterly travel benefit & semiannual team off-sites
- Get invited to exclusive parties
We're an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We're proud to be a diverse team, and actively work to bring new perspectives to the table.
Salary : $140,000 - $190,000
