Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack)

Pocket (YC W26); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Direct impact on day-to-day work

High-trust, high-responsibility

Job summary

Pocket in San Francisco is seeking an engineer who can work across backend and frontend to ship the highest-leverage product and growth improvements—whatever moves the needle.

You’ll own end-to-end projects, build user-facing features, design and scale backend systems, and push frontend improvements. You’ll drive experiments and collaborate with design, product, marketing, and support to unblock teams with code.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of experience shipping production software.
• Strong backend fundamentals (APIs, DBs, async jobs, caching, performance, reliability).
• Ability to ship frontend changes (React/TypeScript).
• Care deeply about product outcomes and can translate ambiguity into shipped work.
• Prefer shipping and learning over long debates; move quickly without breaking things.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end projects from instrumentation to backend services to UI rollout and iteration.
• Build and iterate on user-facing 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 unblock them with code.

Skills

Backend fundamentals

Frontend development

Product mindset

Ownership

Tools

React

TypeScript

Go

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

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