The Founding Product Engineer will lead the product lifecycle from concept to shipping, focusing on full-stack engineering and user feedback.
Position: Founding Product Engineer
Location: In-Office (San Francisco, CA) | Open to Remote (United States) Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000 Base + 0.5% - 1.25% Equity Benefits: Best-in-class medical, dental, vision; Unlimited vacation; Personal Executive Assistant support.
Background
This high-growth technology company is building essential financial infrastructure to support and grow America's industrial GDP. We are hiring a founding product engineer to lead core 0-to-1 builds. The successful candidate will own the full-stack product lifecycle: scoping, designing, shipping, and iterating in the field. This role requires travel with the founding team to factory floors in the Midwest and Southeast to meet customers face-to-face and design/build exactly what they require.
Key Responsibilities
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
About
Stone Hendricks Group is a direct-hire search firm that brings together years of experience and a diverse range of talent to connect businesses with exceptional job candidates. With a focus on timely and effective recruitment, we understand the power of a well-formed employee base in helping businesses achieve their goals. We offer our services to businesses of all sizes, providing qualified candidates for blue- and grey-collar roles, as well as white-collar and executive positions. The success of our direct-hire search process is driven by our advanced training, proprietary technology, and extensive network across industries. At Stone Hendricks Group, we value integrity and prioritize connectedness, commitment, and candor in our interactions with both employers and job seekers. Our clients consider us trusted advisors, relying on the highly personalized service we provide and our ability to find candidates that are an ideal fit for their unique needs. Choose Stone Hendricks Group for unsurpassed direct-hire search services that match successful organizations with talented job candidates.
Location: In-Office (San Francisco, CA) | Open to Remote (United States) Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000 Base + 0.5% - 1.25% Equity Benefits: Best-in-class medical, dental, vision; Unlimited vacation; Personal Executive Assistant support.
This high-growth technology company is building essential financial infrastructure to support and grow America's industrial GDP. We are hiring a founding product engineer to lead core 0-to-1 builds. The successful candidate will own the full-stack product lifecycle: scoping, designing, shipping, and iterating in the field. This role requires travel with the founding team to factory floors in the Midwest and Southeast to meet customers face-to-face and design/build exactly what they require.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the complete product lifecycle—from identifying customer pain points to UI/UX design, through 0-to-1 full-stack engineering, and final product shipment.
- Travel to manufacturing customers across the country and work directly with real-world users to validate and iterate on product concepts.
- Contribute significantly to building a product culture that successfully balances speed, taste, and customer obsession.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experienced Builder: Experienced in full-stack product engineering (including Postgres, Next.js, TypeScript, AWS, etc.).
- Product Acumen: Comfortable scoping from ambiguity and designing UI mockups in tools like Figma.
- Execution Mindset: Maniacal about shipping fast, scrapping what doesn't work, and iterating without ego.
- Design Focused: Opinionated about UI/UX details and committed to aesthetic quality.
About
Stone Hendricks Group is a direct-hire search firm that brings together years of experience and a diverse range of talent to connect businesses with exceptional job candidates. With a focus on timely and effective recruitment, we understand the power of a well-formed employee base in helping businesses achieve their goals. We offer our services to businesses of all sizes, providing qualified candidates for blue- and grey-collar roles, as well as white-collar and executive positions. The success of our direct-hire search process is driven by our advanced training, proprietary technology, and extensive network across industries. At Stone Hendricks Group, we value integrity and prioritize connectedness, commitment, and candor in our interactions with both employers and job seekers. Our clients consider us trusted advisors, relying on the highly personalized service we provide and our ability to find candidates that are an ideal fit for their unique needs. Choose Stone Hendricks Group for unsurpassed direct-hire search services that match successful organizations with talented job candidates.
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