Senior Product Engineer - Platform Lead (Remote)

Workshop; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

ESOP

Wellbeing allowance

Learning & development

Home office setup

Birthday leave

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Optimal is a comprehensive user insight platform enabling product teams and UX researchers to derive data-driven decisions. We partner with leaders to reveal why users behave as they do, shaping product outcomes.

We’re seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join the Innovation team, a cross-functional crew delivering next-gen research tools. You’ll design, deploy, and operate the platform that powers fast iteration and scalable growth.

Qualifications

• Senior-level full-stack engineering experience, deployed on AWS.
• Strong focus on platform, infra, and operational best practices.
• Ability to lead projects, mentor others, and own outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ship customer-facing research features with a platform focus.
• Architect and develop scalable, observable, secure infrastructure.
• Lead platform reliability and security by design across deployments.
• Collaborate with designers, product and AI engineers to validate ideas.
• Set technical direction and mentor the team.

Skills

Senior full-stack

Platform & DevOps

AWS

Ruby on Rails

React

CI/CD

Security by design

Tools

AWS

Ruby on Rails

React

CI/CD

Job description

Optimal is a comprehensive user insight platform enabling product teams and UX researchers to derive data-driven decisions. We partner with leaders to reveal why users behave as they do, shaping product outcomes.

We’re seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join the Innovation team, a cross-functional crew delivering next-gen research tools. You’ll design, deploy, and operate the platform that powers fast iteration and scalable growth.