Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack)

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$200k–$300k

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Pocket Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack) at Pocket works across backend and frontend to ship high-impact product and growth improvements. Responsibilities include building backend systems, frontend features, and driving experiments.

Responsibilities

Pocket is building a category-defining platform for ambient intelligence. We need an engineer who can work across backend + frontend to ship the highest-leverage product and growth improvements - whatever moves the needle.
End-to-end projects: instrumentation → backend services → web/app UI → rollout & iteration.
Build and iterate on user-facing product features (activation, retention, paid conversion, core UX).
Design, implement, and scale backend systems: APIs, data models, pipelines, jobs, reliability.
Improve frontend surfaces where it matters (web product, internal tools, landing pages, onboarding flows).
Drive experiments: set hypotheses, ship fast, measure results, and harden what works.
Work closely with design, product, marketing, and support - and help unblock them with code.
What success looks like
Shipped features/experiments that measurably improve activation/retention/revenue.
Reliable systems with clear observability (logs/metrics/traces) and pragmatic correctness.
Clean, simple architecture that stays fast to iterate on as the product evolves.
High ownership: you proactively find the most important problems and solve them.

Qualification

Have strong backend fundamentals (APIsWhat we care about mostPerformance and reliability by defaultStartup / zero-to-one experienceOur stack (today)FrontendBackendData

Required

Have strong backend fundamentals (APIs, DBs, async jobs, caching, performance, reliability).
Can comfortably ship frontend changes (React/TypeScript or similar), even if it’s not your “main thing.”
Care deeply about product outcomes and can translate ambiguity into shipped work.
Prefer shipping and learning over long debates; you can move quickly without breaking things.
6–10+ years of experience shipping production software (startup pace preferred).
What we care about most
Performance and reliability by default: profiling, latency budgets, graceful degradation, and pragmatic correctness.

Preferred

Experience running experiments / analytics instrumentation (events, funnels, cohorts).
Experience building internal tools that make teams faster.
Startup / zero-to-one experience.
Our stack (today)
Frontend: React (TypeScript)
Backend: Go + Node
Data: Postgres + Redis

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Company

Pocket

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