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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Senior Product Builder (Engineering Focus)
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-200k
- Posted
- 4MO AGO
About the role
Senior Product Builder (Engineering Focus)
LocationSan Francisco TypeFull-time Team4-person teamJob description
Brief is the product strategy agent for product teams. We aggregate business context (decisions, customer research, work pipeline, team knowledge) and make it legible to both people and AI agents through chat, Slack, CLI, and voice.
We believe the boundaries between product, design, and engineering are dissolving. The scarce resource is no longer engineering hours; it's taste, judgment, and the conviction to ship. So we hire Product Builders who wear all three hats and own whole things. From "what should this even do?" to "it's shipped, it feels right, and customers love it."
This is the engineering-focused shape of that role. Our bet: the disciplines blend, but the best builders still have a center of gravity. Yours is engineering, a long tenure writing real software, paired with genuine taste and discernment for UX, UI, and user empathy. You're as picky about how the thing feels to a user as you are about how the code reads. You don't need a spec to know when something's wrong, and you can't leave it alone until it's right.
If you've spent the last year thinking hard about how AI changes the product-building loop, using Claude/Cursor/Copilot not as autocomplete but as a genuine collaborator, you might be exactly right for this.
About the role
- Define, design, and build features yourself, start to finish. No spec, no handoff.
- Build customer-facing UI that's fast, opinionated, and polished. This is a product for builders; it has to feel right.
- Work directly with the founders on product direction. No PM layer, no design queue.
- Use AI agents in your daily workflow, and build products that AI agents use themselves.
- Find what's broken, confusing, or missing and fix it before being asked.
- Drive architecture decisions, not just implementation.
About you
Must have- A long tenure as a software engineer. Roughly 6+ years, with the depth that only comes from years in the craft.
- Strong TypeScript and React fundamentals, comfortable across the full stack.
- Product taste is non-negotiable. You have beliefs about UX, push back when something doesn't feel right, and can articulate why. You measure the work by the user's experience, not just the diff.
- Naturally curious and detail-oriented. You sweat the small things because care is what separates a beloved product from generic output.
- High ownership. Self-directed, full-lifecycle, ships things that close issues for good.
- Has worked at a startup or somewhere with a genuinely high engineering bar.
- Built conversational UIs or chat interfaces with complex state
- Experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic/OpenAI) and prompt engineering
- Understanding of product management workflows
- Contributed to open source developer tools
- Built MCP servers or Claude Desktop extensions
- Experience with Inngest or similar orchestration tools
- Shipped features that required product judgment, not just technical execution
Education: No degree required. We value product sense and technical execution over credentials.
Our stack
FrontendNext.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind, Radix UI BackendNext.js API routes, Inngest (event/queue), PostgreSQL/Supabase AIVercel AI SDK, MCP protocol IntegrationsGitHub, Linear, SlackWhy you should apply
You're building the future of product development - AI agents that have product judgment, not just coding ability
- Technical depth + product impact Complex agent orchestration that directly affects how teams build products
- Extreme ownership You'll design, build, and ship entire agent systems. Your code goes to production daily.
- Direct user feedback Talk to users weekly. See your agents make real product decisions in their workflows.
- Shape the category We're defining what "product intelligence for AI coding" means. You'll help figure it out.
- Need lots of structure and defined requirements
- Want to "build it right" before shipping
- Uncomfortable with AI coding tools
- Pure frontend or pure backend focus
Compensation
Salary$150k-200k Equity0.5-1.5% (early team member grant) BenefitsUnlimited PTO Visa sponsorshipAt this time, we cannot sponsor work visas. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US.Work environment
In-person, in our San Francisco office. We're a high trust get-shit-done team, so locking in at home is fine, but the industry and product move too fast for fully remote.
How to apply
Email hello@briefhq.ai with:
- Your GitHub profile or a portfolio of shipped work
- Resume
- 1-2 sentences on: "Product Builders sit at the intersection of design, product, and engineering. Where are you strongest, where are you weakest, and how do you compensate?"
We are not accepting unsolicited resumes or submissions from external recruiters or agencies for this role.
Brief is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, and veterans. We believe diverse perspectives make us better at serving our customers.
