Member of Technical Staff (All Levels) - Product Engineering

Basis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech firm based in New York City is seeking a Member of Technical Staff – Product Engineering. This role involves designing user-facing products integrating AI capabilities and owning projects from start to finish. Candidates will work closely with accountants to improve workflows and deliver reliable systems. This entry-level position offers a unique opportunity to shape how AI and humans work together in technology.

Qualifications

• Ability to design and ship user-facing products with AI capabilities.
• Experience in writing clear project scopes and architecture documents.
• Understanding of user needs and documenting learnings for better UX.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship intelligent product experiences that integrate AI.
• Own projects from planning through delivery, ensuring accountability.
• Work with accountants to improve systems and user experience.

Job description

Member of Technical Staff – Product Engineering

Join Basis as a Member of Technical Staff – Product Engineering.

Basis equips accountants with a team of AI agents to take on real workflows. We have hit product‑market fit, have more demand than we can meet, and just raised $34m to scale at a speed that meets this moment. Built in New York City. Read more about Basis here.

About the Team

We’re building product experiences where AI accountants work as capable partners with humans, making complex accounting workflows simple, safe, and trustworthy. LLMs put general intelligence inside software, which changes everything about how products work. We’re designing completely new ways for humans and AI to work together. Just as mobile changed how we think about UI, AI requires new architectures, abstractions, and ways of thinking. We work from first principles in small teams with quick feedback loops. We partner closely with Accounting SMEs, Design, PM, Research, and Platform. We think in systems, value clean abstractions and interfaces, and write code that’s observable, maintainable, and easy for both humans and AI agents to work with.

About the Role

As a Product Engineer at Basis, you’ll own your projects completely from start to finish. You’ll be the Responsible Party (RP) for your work—defining the problem, figuring out the solution, building it, and measuring whether it worked. We trust you to manage yourself. You’ll set your own goals, plan your own time, and make calls on both technical and product decisions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build intelligent product experiences: Design and ship user‑facing products that combine AI capabilities with reliable workflows; build APIs, data models, and front‑end flows that are clear and dependable; integrate LLM capabilities like retrieval, reconciliation, and guardrails into the product; write code structured for AI agents.
• Own projects from planning through delivery: Write clear project scopes and architecture documents; build, test, and monitor systems from start to finish; track progress, identify blockers early, and measure results with data; ship confidently with proper logging, feature flags, CI/CD, and rollback plans.
• Learn fast and share knowledge: Work directly with accountants and users to understand needs; turn learnings into better UX and systems; document and share learnings to help the whole team move faster.

Location

NYC, Flatiron office. In‑person team.

Success Looks Like

• Plan, build, and deliver projects independently while being accountable for results.
• Build reliable, easy‑to‑understand systems built for continuous improvement.
• Simplify complex problems and ship products quickly.
• Deliver architecture usable by both users and AI agents.
• Help raise the standard for software builds at Basis.

Seniority Level

Entry level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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