Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack)

Pocket Worlds; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Pocket Worlds is seeking an engineer who can work across backend and frontend to ship high-impact product and growth improvements. You will own end-to-end projects, build features for activation and retention, and design scalable backend systems while improving frontend surfaces.

Collaboration with design, product, marketing and support is essential to unblock initiatives. We value strong backend fundamentals and the ability to ship frontend changes when needed, with 6–10+ years of production

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production software in startup environments.
• Strong API, DB, async jobs, caching and reliability fundamentals.
• Proficiency in React/TypeScript for frontend changes when needed.
• Ability to translate ambiguity into shipped work and drive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end projects from instrumentation to UI rollout.
• Build user-facing features for activation, retention and revenue.
• Design and scale backend systems with reliable APIs and data pipelines.
• Improve frontend surfaces and internal tools to accelerate teams.
• Drive experiments with hypotheses, rapid iteration and measurement.
• Collaborate with design, product, marketing and support to unblock work.

Skills

Backend fundamentals

Frontend development

Product-minded development

Startup pace experience

Tools

Go

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Redis

React/TypeScript

Job description

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

About Pocket

Pocket is a Y Combinator W26 company building a premium hardware plus software product in the AI voice recorder space. We are obsessed with quality and speed. We are scaling very fast in the US and now European markets and building a device experience that can become the category leader.