Founding Product Engineer - Phaselab

Phase; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Founding Product Engineer to revolutionize the eDiscovery industry. In this high-impact role, you will collaborate closely with the leadership team to develop and scale core product features. Your expertise in full-stack development, particularly with Next.js, React, and Python, will be essential in driving the product's success. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of technology in a fast-paced environment, where your contributions will have a direct impact on the company's growth and success. Join a passionate team dedicated to building exceptional user experiences and fostering a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack development with startups.
• Strong expertise in Next.js, React, and Tailwind for frontend.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale core product features with high ownership.
• Collaborate with CTO and product team to improve performance.

Skills

Full-stack development

Next.js

React

Tailwind

Python

Web performance optimization

User experience (UX)

Action-oriented mindset

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (K8s)

Postgres

Job description

Founding Product Engineer (Full-Stack) – Phaselab

Location: San Francisco

Type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive, with equity options

About Phaselab

Phaselab is rebuilding the legacy eDiscovery industry from the ground up, empowering in-house legal teams with tools for document production that bypass the existing services-heavy approach. We're Seed stage but are already working with Fortune 500 companies and are scaling rapidly.

The Role

We’re looking for a Product Engineer to help us build and scale our core product. You’ll work closely with the CTO, AI Engineer, and Head of Product to ship impactful features and improve performance across the stack. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role where you’ll directly shape the future of Phaselab’s technology.

What You’ll Do

First Week

• Get onboarded, set up your dev environment, and dive into our systems.

• Ship a small update or bug fix to get familiar with the codebase.

• Use the product to understand how it works and identify areas for improvement.

First Month

• Ship two major features

• Create a framework for measuring web vitals and draft a plan to improve frontend performance.

By 90 Days

• Execute plan to improve frontend performance.

• Co-own the frontend architecture roadmap alongside the CTO.

• Ship product updates daily/weekly with a strong focus on quality.

• Ensure dependencies are consistently up to date.

• Devise a strategy for automated frontend testing to ensure reliability.

• Collaborate closely with the Head of Product, CTO, and AI Engineer to shape the future of the product.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in full-stack development, ideally with startups or fast-moving teams.

• Strong expertise in Next.js, React, and Tailwind for frontend development.

• Proficiency in Python for backend/API development.

• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes (K8s), and Postgres for infrastructure and data management.

• Experience optimizing web performance and improving frontend UX.

• A bias for action: You ship fast and iterate based on feedback.

• Strong product sense: You think beyond the code and care about delivering an exceptional user experience.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Your work will directly shape the product and the future of the company.

• Growth: High ownership, deep collaboration with company and technical leadership.

• Speed: We move fast, ship often, and value autonomy.

• Culture: Our team is kind, collaborative, inquisitive, and inclusive – and we want to keep it that way. We have high standards for quality and ethics, and help each other learn in order to reach our objectives. We think technology is best built by teams with a diversity of background, thought, and experience.

Every team member is a human first, and we strive to create a culture and environment that supports your career goals and respects all of the hats you wear in life, not just the ones that earn you a paycheck.

Our Team

We were founded in 2023 by SaaS and data experts: Josh (CEO) lead Chartbeat as CTO to $70M+ ARR and exit; David (COO and Head of Product) lead Cortico (MIT spinoff) from 0->1 as COO; Paul (CTO) ran search infrastructure at Reddit and was engineer #7 at Moat (acquired by Oracle for $850M).

Let’s build something great together!