[Remote] Product Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zen Educate is a company focused on solving education staffing challenges through engineering excellence. The Product Engineer role involves building and iterating on a platform that connects educators with schools, ensuring efficient staffing solutions and improving education outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output
- Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
- Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
- Building relationships quickly
- Taking ownership of problems end-to-end
- Helping grow a team around you
- Aligning with Product and Ops to clarify problems and deliver iterative improvements
- Overhauling permissions systems and ensuring proper traceability in production
- Creating foundational configurations for improved product and code development
- Implementing analytics for user interaction insights
- Upgrading the React Native app to latest SDK versions
- Improving anonymisation logic for internal tools and compiling DevEx metrics
- Addressing minor vulnerabilities identified during security assessments
Skills
- Experience in software engineering with a focus on product thinking and problem-solving
- Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment
- Strong communication skills to build relationships quickly
- Curiosity, adaptability, and proactiveness
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native
- Ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end
- Experience in delivering iterative improvements and testing value quickly
- Ability to shape problems rather than just deliver tickets
- Experience in a daily shipping culture and willingness to iterate quickly
- Experience with AI technologies and their application in product development
- Familiarity with Heroku and Cloudflare
- Experience in building and managing permissions systems
- Experience with analytics tools like MixPanel
- Experience in upgrading and maintaining mobile applications
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