Full-Stack Engineer, Product Impact & Growth

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 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.