Hybrid Staff Product Engineer

at Nectar Group

• Job title: Staff Product Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $180,000 - $300,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Build AI-powered product experiences in a fast-growing startup focused on authentic social interactions and community trust. Mentor engineers and shape app quality with high user engagement.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered product experiences: You'll build products like conversation inboxes, AI-suggested replies, and summarization of social conversations into actionable insights.
• Raise the bar on application quality: The app serves thousands of users daily across a wide surface area. You'll improve shared components, establish consistent patterns, and optimize performance so the team can ship more products at a higher quality bar.
• Shape technical direction: Write architecture docs, mentor other engineers, and drive decisions on design systems, performance, and build tools.

Requirements

• Strong product engineering background with experience building complex, data-rich web applications in React
• Customer empathy — you understand the users of your software deeply to build products that make their work easier
• Desire to mentor engineers and shape engineering culture and process as the company scales
• Belief that AI is changing how software gets built and a desire to establish AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup where you'll wear multiple hats and own problems end-to-end

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity
• Health, dental, and vision insurance with 401(k) matching
• Hybrid work model (Palo Alto office, 3 days/week in-office collaboration)
• No silos - engineers have the freedom to work across our entire product and infrastructure stack, and participate directly in product decisions