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product engineering lead

Turbopuffer

United StatesFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Location
United States
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

Turbopuffer is seeking an engineer to lead the team building user-facing features as the company expands its customer experience. The role focuses on shipping requested improvements across playgrounds, observability, alerting, insights, and billing, while improving developer experience from the dashboard and documentation to SDKs and the core database. The lead will manage a team of three and support its growth.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product EngineeringTeam ManagementHTML5CSS CodesJavaScript (Programming Language)TypeScriptUser ExperienceWeb ApplicationsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Technical DocumentationDesignEngineering Team LeadershipPeople ManagementHTMLCSSDatabasesAPIsProduct ManagementUser Problem SolvingWeb Product MaintenanceMulti-Tenant SaaSBillingAuthenticationAuthorizationWritingExplaining Complex IdeasTrust BuildingReactShadcn/UINext.jsTailwindVercelRailsPhoenixDjangoVector SearchFull-Text SearchRust

Qualifications

Extensive Browser Technology ExperienceWeb-Based Products at ScaleMulti-Tenant SaaS App ExperienceReact Ecosystem ExperienceBackend Framework ExperienceVector and Full-Text Search ExperienceRust Experience

Full job description

turbopuffer is looking for an engineer to lead the team that is building all of our user facing features. we're doubling down on our customer experience and looking to ship a host of highly requested features and improvements (playgrounds, observability, alerting, insights, billing).

what you'll do:

  • design and implement end-to-end improvements to our overall developer experience from the UX (dashboard, docs, site, SDKs) to our core database.

  • help customers understand, monitor, and optimize their tpuf workloads.

  • manage a team of (currently) 3 and support in the hiring and building of this team

  • write crisp docs

must have:

  • product engineering

  • you have lead engineering teams (technically and people management)

  • you've worked extensively with browser technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/TS) and web apps in general (databases, APIs)

  • you are passionate about UX and can think like a product manager

  • you are driven by solving user problems

  • you have an eye for design

  • domain expertise

  • you’ve maintained and iterated on web-based products at scale

  • you have prior experience with multi-tenant SaaS apps (billing, authentication, authorization)

  • typist — you can write well and explain complex ideas simply

  • human — you build trust and admit what you don’t know

nice to have:

  • experience in the React ecosystem (shadcn/ui, Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel) and/or backend frameworks (Rails, Phoenix, Django)

  • an interest in vector and full-text search and experience interacting with tools in the space

  • prior experience with Rust

tpuf is hardcore & whimsical. we value:

  • overstep > understep

  • show > tell

  • complexity is earned

  • showing up as part of our customer’s team

  • making stuff easy to react to

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