About the role
Product Engineer Role
You'll build the products developers reach for when they need to turn the messy, hostile web into clean data and actions an AI can use. This is hands-on product engineering at the core of what Firecrawl does: shipping features that thousands of developers hit every day, owning them from idea to production, and obsessing over the details that make an API a joy to build on. You'll ship real product from day one, not tickets in a backlog.
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.
We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 150k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.
We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.
This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.
What You'll Do
- Build and ship developer-facing product features from idea to production
- Own the reliability and quality of what you ship against a web that constantly changes and fights back
- Turn hard, ambiguous problems into clean APIs developers love to use
- Work directly with the engineering team on the roadmap and the tradeoffs behind it
- Dogfood the product, read the GitHub issues, and let real developer pain drive what you build
What We're Looking For
- You've built and shipped developer-facing product that people actually used
- You care about developer experience like a designer cares about pixels: latency, response format, docs, the whole feel of it
- You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped features
- You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper
What We're NOT Looking For
- Someone who needs a fully-specced ticket to start
- A strong backend engineer who's indifferent to how the product feels to use
- Someone who optimizes for process over shipping
A Note On Pace
We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.
About Firecrawl
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In our first year, we hit 8 figures in ARR and 125k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data.
We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure that superintelligence will use to gather data from the web. We ship fast and deep.
Why Firecrawl
- Technical ownership. Own critical infrastructure end-to-end. No layers, no committees, no waiting for permission.
- Real impact. Your work shapes the product directly. Ship something Monday, see it in customer hands by Friday.
- High velocity. Rapid iteration, fast deployment, short feedback loops. We move at the pace of the problem.
- Small team, big ambition. Work shoulder to shoulder with founders. Influence the decisions that define what Firecrawl becomes.
What it Means to Join Firecrawl
- High leverage. Your work directly amplifies company growth. Every system you build, every process you ship, every customer you close compounds.
- Autonomy. Own your domain. We care about outcomes, not hours.
- Remote-first with an SF hub. Most of the team is remote, working across 10+ time zones. Our SF office is open for anyone who wants to work in person, and we bring the whole team together regularly for offsites.
- Growth opportunity. Early equity and a role that scales with the company. Senior people get senior surface area.
- Creative freedom. Experiment with new channels, formats, and automations. If it works, we run with it.
Required skills
Other roles at Firecrawl
Job details
Salary
$235,000 - $260,000
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$16.2M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
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.