Lead Product Engineer

About the role

You will own the definition and implementation of the features and platform that enable our customers to build powerful, agentic document workflows at scale. You will act as a key interface between our founding team and our largest enterprise customers, ensuring that the product vision is translated into a robust and reliable technical reality. You will take ownership of the entire product lifecycle, from initial discovery and prototyping through to polished production features that delight both developers and end-users. This role requires you to be deeply hands-on, writing critical code while also guiding the technical direction of the product suite. You will foster a culture of extreme ownership, where problems are solved directly and quality is non-negotiable. Ultimately, you will be responsible for making document data universally accessible and actionable through best-in-class interactive tools.

Key facts

What you'll do

Architect and build the core capabilities of Reducto Studio, including document viewers, extraction workflows, and data visualization components that handle complex enterprise documents.

Design and implement delightful, intuitive user interfaces that simplify complex document workflows into clear, actionable steps for users of all technical levels.

Lead the ideation, prototyping, and iterative delivery of new high-impact features such as form filling, document translation, in-place editing, and intelligent document classification.

Champion a quantitative approach to product development, using data and experimentation to validate hypotheses and drive rapid iteration on new interactions and workflows.

Collaborate directly with founders and key enterprise customers to gather feedback and translate business requirements into a precise product and technical roadmap.

Implement responsive and real-time collaboration features that ensure a seamless user experience across desktop and mobile device environments.

Work within our established design system and modern tech stack, including Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Convex, to ship features quickly without compromising on quality or performance.

Explore and prototype novel interaction patterns, particularly around AI-powered document processing, to create a user experience that feels intuitive and magical.

Act as a technical and product leader within the engineering organization, mentoring junior engineers and elevating the overall standard of code and design across the team.

Requirements

You must possess 5 or more years of professional experience building applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React and TypeScript.

You have a proven track record of leading business-critical projects from concept through to production, demonstrating ownership and execution in fast-paced environments.

You are comfortable leading and mentoring small engineering teams, setting expectations, and delivering results against demanding timelines.

Your expertise includes a strong command of TypeScript and React, with a demonstrated ability to write clean, scalable, and maintainable component architectures.

You have a sharp eye for design details and a strong sense of visual aesthetics, ensuring that functionality and beauty are delivered together.

You are a self-driven builder who proactively creates tools and workflows, such as custom prototypes or component libraries, to solve problems efficiently.

You insist on a quantitative mindset, using metrics and experiments to debug issues, test assumptions, and guide product decisions.

You are passionate about creating high-quality software and hold yourself to a standard where "good enough" is never the final standard for features you ship.

Nice to have

Prior experience founding a company or building products at the very earliest stages of product-market fit is highly valued.

Hands-on experience with document viewers, PDF rendering technologies, or complex data visualization libraries is a significant advantage.

A deep curiosity for and engagement with the latest developments in frontend engineering and modern design systems.

Practical notes

This is an in-person role based at our office in San Francisco.

As an early-stage company, the role requires a high level of effort and the ability to move quickly; please apply only if this environment energizes you.