Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack)
About the role
Pocket is building a category-defining platform for ambient intelligence. We need an engineer who can work across backend + frontend to ship the highest-leverage product and growth improvements - whatever moves the needle.
What you'll own
- End-to-end projects: instrumentation → backend services → web/app UI → rollout & iteration.
- Build and iterate on user-facing product features (activation, retention, paid conversion, core UX).
- Design, implement, and scale backend systems: APIs, data models, pipelines, jobs, reliability.
- Improve frontend surfaces where it matters (web product, internal tools, landing pages, onboarding flows).
- Drive experiments: set hypotheses, ship fast, measure results, and harden what works.
- Work closely with design, product, marketing, and support - and help unblock them with code.
What success looks like
- Shipped features/experiments that measurably improve activation/retention/revenue.
- Reliable systems with clear observability (logs/metrics/traces) and pragmatic correctness.
- Clean, simple architecture that stays fast to iterate on as the product evolves.
- High ownership: you proactively find the most important problems and solve them.
What we're looking for
- Have strong backend fundamentals (APIs, DBs, async jobs, caching, performance, reliability).
- Can comfortably ship frontend changes (React/TypeScript or similar), even if it’s not your “main thing.”
- Care deeply about product outcomes and can translate ambiguity into shipped work.
- Prefer shipping and learning over long debates; you can move quickly without breaking things.
- 6–10+ years of experience shipping production software (startup pace preferred).
What we care about most
- Performance and reliability by default: profiling, latency budgets, graceful degradation, and pragmatic correctness.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience running experiments / analytics instrumentation (events, funnels, cohorts).
- Experience building internal tools that make teams faster.
- Startup / zero-to-one experience.
Our stack (today)
- Mobile: Flutter
- Frontend: React (TypeScript)
- Backend: Go + Node
- Data: Postgres + Redis
What we offer
- Work directly with us and learn fast
- Direct impact on how the company operates day to day
- High-trust, high-responsibility environment
- Competitive compensation
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Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
6+ years
Funding
Total raised
$11M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
