Product Engineer, SchooLinks

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React
• Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs
• AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions
• Strong written communication skills for writing specs, release notes, and product documentation
• 3+ years of experience working with AWS
• 3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production
• Experience building, supporting, and planning production systems
• Experience with asynchronous task management

Desirable

• We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer who ships complete features autonomously. This role is for engineers who work AI-native: using tools like Claude to write specs, build, QA, document, and communicate their work across the organization
• Engineers in this role collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to validate direction, then own execution end-to-end. Strong candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and take responsibility for how their work lands with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams
• This role is for engineers based in Austin, Texas, with the ability to work in the office 1-2 days a week. We do not have the ability to sponsor H-1B Visas
• Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set
• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend
• Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering
• Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas
• Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality
• Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users
• Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback
• Participate in on-call rotations