Staff Product Engineer

Parafin is a company focused on empowering small businesses by providing them with essential financial tools through seamless integrations. They are seeking a Staff Product Engineer to lead the technical direction of their user-facing products, collaborating with various teams to enhance product quality and user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Ship polished user experiences and own the APIs, data models, and backend services behind them
• Care about the less visible details that matter, like page speed, API reliability, and responsiveness
• Develop deep product expertise and use it to shape what we build
• Partner closely with Product and Design to own roadmap decisions and influence product direction
• Drive architecture decisions, write design docs, and lead technical reviews
• Align stakeholders across Engineering and Data Science on priorities and tradeoffs
• Define and implement observability across user interactions, Core Web Vitals, API performance, and perceived performance
• Contribute to build systems, developer tooling, and deployment pipelines to improve how the team ships
• Mentor engineers, improve team processes and code quality, and help foster a culture of craft, ownership, and high standards

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping user-facing products as a full stack engineer, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous problem spaces and driving them from concept to production
• Able to go deep across the stack to solve complex problems and unblock the team
• You've built production-quality UIs in React and TypeScript and have experience designing APIs, working with data models, and debugging complex backend systems
• You have strong product and user experience instincts and use them to influence what gets built, not just how it's built
• You consistently push for simple, high-quality user experiences
• You think in systems and set technical direction that improves how the team builds
• You are opinionated about how software should be built and establish abstractions, architecture, and patterns that make the broader product surface easier to develop and maintain
• You lead through influence
• You've driven cross-functional initiatives, aligned Engineering, Product, and Design around tradeoffs, and raised the bar for engineering quality through technical leadership, mentorship, and example
• Experience in fintech, financial products, or embedded finance
• Familiarity with Python or Scala