[Remote] Founding Software Engineer — Product
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Roark is a company building a platform where calls are scored, issues are filed, and fixes are proven. The Founding Software Engineer — Product will own customer-facing product surfaces end-to-end, spanning frontend, APIs, data modeling, and UI quality, while working directly with customers and design to rapidly ship improvements.
Responsibilities
- Design and build product surfaces end-to-end: Next.js/React frontend, GraphQL API, Postgres data model — schema to pixel
- Turn messy real-world workflows (test suites, issue triage, run reviews) into interfaces that feel obvious in hindsight
- Work directly with design on a system that takes craft seriously — and push back when something reads wrong
- Sit in on customer calls, watch people use your features, and ship the fix the same week
- Raise the bar on quality: tests where they earn their keep, instrumentation everywhere, no silent failures
Skills
- • 4+ years building production web applications, with deep TypeScript and React experience
- • Comfort owning a feature across the whole stack — API design, data modelling, and UI polish
- • A portfolio (or war stories) showing product taste: you notice spacing, latency and empty states
- • Bias to ship: you would rather put a small version in front of a user this week than a big one next month
- • Clear written communication — we are remote and we write things down
- • Experience with GraphQL (Pothos/Yoga), Drizzle, or event-driven backends
- • You have built developer-facing tools, dashboards or observability products before
Benefits
- Remote work
- US or Europe location flexibility
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