Founding Product Engineer Engineering NYC

Studio; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Studio is a small, exceptional team building AI-powered tools to help creators thrive and people self-actualize. We are seeking a founding full-stack engineer who owns features end-to-end, shipping beautiful, high-impact product experiences for millions of users.

You'll work directly with the founders across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, iterating quickly based on user feedback and data, and shaping the technical architecture as we scale.

Qualifications

• Proven full-stack development experience.
• Excellent product, design, and business sense.
• Ability to move fast and ship iteratively.
• Based in NYC or willing to relocate for in-person work.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship full-stack features from concept to production
• Build beautiful, intuitive user experiences across web and mobile
• Work across the entire stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure
• Talk to users, iterate rapidly based on feedback and data
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions as we scale

Skills

Full-stack

React/TypeScript

Python

AWS

UX-focused

Fast shipping

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

AWS

iOS/Android (nice-to-have)

Job description

Studio is building the self-actualization company: software tools and AI-powered experiences that help people change their lives, powered by the expertise of world-class creators.We're a small, exceptional team at the bleeding edge of AI — shipping wildly fast, learning constantly, and having fun. Reach out if you want to shape the future of how creators thrive and people self-actualize.

About the role

We're looking for a founding full-stack engineer with exceptional product, design, and business sense who can own features end-to-end across the entire stack. You'll work directly with the founders to ship beautiful, high-impact product experiences that help creators monetize effectively and help millions of users achieve their goals.This is a rare opportunity to join a team that moves energizingly fast, thinks deeply, and is building something that genuinely matters. We're not just making another app. We're building all the infrastructure and tools that allow anyone to create effective, innovative software to help people learn, grow, and self-actualize.

What you'll do

• Own and quickly ship full-stack features from concept to production
• Build beautiful, intuitive user experiences across web and mobile
• Work across the entire stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure
• Talk to users, iterate rapidly based on feedback and data
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions as we scale

Requirements

• Deep love for learning and creating — you're constantly learning and have a deep appreciation for craft
• Strong product, design, and business sense — you care deeply about UX details, polish, and think holistically about how product, marketing, and business all connect
• Ability to move fast and ship iteratively without sacrificing quality — prototyping ideas in hours, not days
• Full-stack experience with modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Python, AWS)
• High ownership mentality — you see things through to completion, and know what it takes to take something from 90% to 100% and beyond
• Excited about building consumer products that genuinely help people
• Based in NYC or willing to relocate (in-person role)

Nice to have

• You've built your own products, side projects, or startups
• You've been actively building with AI tools in the past 6 months and are excited to be at the bleeding edge
• Experience with iOS or Android development
• Background in creator economy or marketplace products

We particularly like people who are

• Driven to seek good explanations — you often find yourself creating new theories of how things work or should work
• Able to see the full picture — you think holistically about how every detail interconnects with seemingly unrelated things
• Multidisciplinary and creative — you think across domains, connect unexpected ideas, and turn them into new possibilities
• Low-ego in the pursuit of truth — you care more about what's right than who's right
• Builders who ship fast — you know velocity is a competitive advantage and that momentum compounds. You've founded something before or dream of starting your own company someday.

The team

Our team is insanely talent-dense — and we believe in keeping it that way. In this AI-powered world, we believe in small teams with exceptional, multidisciplinary people with high leverage.The majority of our team are previous VC-backed startup founders. Some of us are also Guinness World Record holders, Grandmasters of Memory, artists with millions of Spotify streams, an award-winning drag queen, an engineer who scored a perfect law school LSAT score, a competitive blindfolded Rubik's Cube solver, an expert knitter, and writers whose blogs reach millions.We care less about resumes and more about people who've built, created, or mastered something remarkable.