Director of Engineering

dynamism; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding team equity

Job summary

dynamism is seeking a Product Engineering Lead in San Francisco to own the customer-facing product from first click to field use. You will lead core workflows, turning imagery, GIS, and engineering records into usable maps and asset views, while shaping direction from customer calls and deployment feedback.

You should have shipped full-stack software with strong product and UI judgment, be able to simplify complex workflows, and work in person in SF 4 days a week.

Qualifications

• Shipped full-stack software that customers rely on.
• Able to simplify complex workflows without losing critical uncertainty.
• Strong product and UI judgment; experience with customer-facing features.

Responsibilities

• Own interaction design, frontend, backend, and production behavior for core workflows.
• Turn imagery, GIS, and engineering records into usable maps and asset views.
• Use customer feedback to decide what to ship next.
• Mentor engineers and raise quality through testing and observability.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Product judgment

UI/UX sensibility

Frontend development

Tools

React

TypeScript

Mapbox

Express

Geospatial data

Job description

Product Engineering Lead

Base salary: $200K to $300K plus equity
Location: San Francisco, 4 days in person | Full time

Imagine turning weeks of driving, handwritten road notes, and spreadsheets into a clear plan a city can act on. Alexandria, Kentucky, says the platform saved its public works team three weeks of that work. As Product Engineering Lead, you would make that kind of practical impact possible for more communities and own the experience from first click to field use.

We are hiring for a company building the operating layer for the infrastructure cities maintain. Roads are the starting point: imagery, vehicle data, GIS records, engineering documents, and local knowledge become a living map of assets and their condition. Public works teams can use that evidence to plan capital, explain priorities, and manage work. The longer ambition reaches sidewalks, drainage, signs, bridges, and other public assets.

The product has customers, revenue, and funding, while the engineering choices that define the next phase are still open. You would join a world-class engineering team that includes a founding software engineer formerly at Brex and a machine learning engineer formerly at X, Google's moonshot factory.

What you'll own

You will lead the customer-facing product. Work with public works teams to understand how they assess roads, defend budgets, and schedule repairs, then make those workflows feel simple even when the underlying data is messy.

• Own interaction design, frontend, backend, and production behavior for core workflows.
• Turn imagery, GIS, and engineering records into usable maps and asset views.
• Use customer calls and deployment feedback to decide what to ship next.
• Raise the quality bar through review, testing, observability, and direct mentorship.

Problems you'll solve

The hard part is not displaying a road condition score. It is letting a public works director inspect its evidence, adjust a plan, and explain the decision to colleagues and residents. Your product judgment will matter as much as your code.

Candidate fit

• You are a Staff-level engineer with strong product and UI judgment.
• You have personally shipped full-stack software that customers rely on.
• You can simplify complex workflows without hiding important uncertainty.
• You want broad ownership and can work in San Francisco in person 4 days per week.
• Base salary: $200K to $300K, plus founding team equity.
• Full time, San Francisco, 4 days in person.
• Work directly with the founder and a small engineering team.
• Core stack: React, TypeScript, Mapbox, Express, geospatial data, and practical infrastructure.
• Visa sponsorship has not been confirmed; please ask if this affects your search.