Product Engineer, tldraw
£90-175k
+ Equity options
React SDK for building infinite canvas applications
Open for applications
React SDK for building infinite canvas applications
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£90-175k
+ Equity options
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build the canvas infrastructure for the future of software.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a product engineer who leans front-end but is comfortable diving across the stack
- You thrive in startup environments, have strong technical chops (React / Next / Node / TypeScript required), and you want to build tools and experiences that empower others
- You’re excited by experimentation, high-leverage product problems, and a company culture that celebrates creativity and developer-first thinking
- We celebrate craft and nerd out about bringing obsessive attention to detail in our products
- Strong hands-on experience building modern web applications using React, Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript
- Experience on high-agency teams where you’ve shipped meaningful features and helped shape the product
- Excellent problem-solving mindset. You can navigate ambiguous, high-leverage problems and drive them to completion
- Clear communication skills, and the ability to engage with product/design/engineering as well as external developer users
- Demonstrated strong product + frontend competence as well as proficient knowledge in backend systems
- Based in or willing to relocate to London / able to work at the Finsbury Park office
Desirable
- A passion for building developer tools, SDKs or platforms is a strong plus
- Side projects or contributions to open-source communities
What the job involves
- We celebrate craft and nerd out about bringing obsessive attention to detail in our products
- You will join our product engineering team working across our SDK and the web application, collaborating closely with product and design
- Your work will impact both end-users of tldraw.com and enterprise customers building on our SDK
- Build, maintain and scale core features of the tldraw web app and SDK (React, Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript)
- Collaborate with design, product and engineering to shape new experiences: ideate, prototype, ship and iterate
- Contribute to and maintain developer-facing documentation, code samples and SDK usage patterns (ensuring our SDK remains world-class)
- Monitor performance, reliability, and developer-gravity of our platform; proactively identify friction points and improve them
- Participate in an experimental culture: build viral demos, iterate fast, embrace creative tooling ideas
- Work across the stack when needed: focus on UI and interaction design but able to also help maintain backend services and APIs
Application process
- Deadline to Apply December 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The collaborative whiteboard space is a crowded one with major players acquiring some serious money. With tools like Figma's FigJam, Miro, and even Apple's new Freeform app proving there's enormous demand for digital canvases where teams can work together. However, most of these platforms lock you into their ecosystems, require logins, and come with rigid approaches to collaboration.
tldraw is taking a refreshingly open approach to this with a simple, free to use collaborative whiteboard that requires no account, just open it, start drawing, and share the link. But the real magic is the TypeScript SDK that lets developers build their own canvas applications. Think "Whiteboard-as-a-Service" with all the complex features like selection, rotation, undo/redo, and multiplayer sync that could take years to build yourself.
Founded in 2022, tldraw has grown incredibly fast, with 40,000 GitHub stars, 70,000 weekly npm installs, and 8,000 Discord members. And already, tldraw is powering hundreds of projects from drawing apps to AI video platforms to virtual classrooms. Now, tldraw plans to open-source its website and expand its collaborative features. With some serious momentum, it's shaping up to be a major player in how people build and use visual tools on the web.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2025
$10m
SERIES A
Mar 2024
$9.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $24.1m
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Steve Ruiz
(Founder & CEO)Prior to Founding tldraw in 2022, Steve was a Product Designer at Play and ClearScore, a Design Educator at Framer, and a User Experience Architect at Inviqa.
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