Product Builder

PAR Technology; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

PAR Technology Corporation is seeking a Lead/Senior/Principal Builder to turn customer problems into shippable software. You’ll work on AI-driven discovery, design, and delivery, across payments, consumer apps, platforms, and enterprise experiences, on a small team responsible for business outcomes.

You will write production code, use AI agents throughout the lifecycle, run experiments, and build reusable capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering software with real users; engineering, product, design, or founder backgrounds welcome.
• Fluent in implementing, debugging, and operating production software; depth in at least one discipline.
• Daily use of AI and coding agents; ability to show impact of AI tools on outcomes.
• Regular experimentation with new AI capabilities, with a clear view of limits.
• Strong product sense, design judgment, and data fluency; understand customer needs.
• Excellent verification habits and clear communication; identify plausible but incorrect output.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer problems, shape solutions, and build the smallest useful version to test hypotheses.
• Write and ship production code across interfaces, APIs, data, and agent workflows.
• Use AI agents throughout research, design, implementation, testing, and debugging.
• Experiment with new models and capabilities; convert successful ones into product features.
• Choose models, code, or tools to fit problems and determine lasting value.
• Own tests, observability, failure handling, and compliance in production work.
• Work directly in customer environments, delivering integrations and reusable capabilities.
• Instrument ships, evaluate adoption and outcomes, and adjust directions as needed.

Skills

Delivery experience

Technical fluency

AI tooling

Experimentation with AI

Product sense

Communication

Customer environments

Security/privacy/compliance

Job description

For over four decades, PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) has been a leader in restaurant technology, empowering brands worldwide to create lasting connections with their guests. Our innovative solutions and commitment to excellence provide comprehensive software and hardware that enable seamless experiences and drive growth for over 100,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries. Embracing our "Better Together" ethos, we offer Unified Customer Experience solutions, combining point-of-sale, digital ordering, loyalty and back-office software solutions as well as industry-leading hardware and drive-thru offerings. To learn more, visit partech.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram.

Position Description

Product Builders turn customer problems into working software. You combine engineering ability, product thinking, and design judgment, using AI throughout discovery, implementation, and delivery. You can take an ambiguous opportunity, build something useful, and stay with it through production and real-world usage. You work with AI daily and continually push its capabilities. You improve your own harnesses, build experiments, and recognize when a new capability makes a better product possible. The work can span payments, consumer applications, enterprise products, platforms, and experiences for both people and software agents. You work on a small team accountable for a business outcome. A Lead Builder, or a Senior or Principal Builder assigned to the team, sets the direction on what to build and why. You own how your part gets built.

Position Location

Remote, United States

Reports To

VP, Product Delivery

What We're Looking For:

• A record of building and shipping software that real users depend on. Engineering, product, design, and founder backgrounds are welcome; evidence of delivery matters most.
• Technical fluency sufficient to implement, debug, and operate production software, with depth in at least one discipline such as engineering, product, design, or data.
• AI as a daily working method. You have used coding agents and other AI tools on shipped work, improved your own setup, and can demonstrate how they change what you accomplish.
• Regular experimentation with new AI capabilities, backed by working projects and a clear view of what those capabilities can and cannot do.
• Product sense, design judgment, and data fluency. You understand customer needs, scope useful solutions, and assess whether they worked.
• Strong verification habits and clear communication. You can identify plausible but incorrect output, explain trade-offs, and involve specialists when needed.

Additional skills:

• Comfort working directly in customer and partner environments, including forward-deployment settings.
• Ability to balance speed, maintainability, security, privacy, and applicable compliance requirements in production work.

Unleash your potential: What you will be doing and owning:

• Understand problems directly from customers and users. Shape a solution, define the intended outcome, and build the smallest useful version that tests your thinking.
• Write and ship production code across interfaces, APIs, integrations, data, and agent workflows. Make practical product and experience decisions as you build.
• Use AI agents throughout research, design, implementation, testing, and debugging. Develop reusable skills, tools, and context that improve how you deliver.
• Experiment regularly with new models and capabilities. Turn the ones that work into product features and share what you learn.
• Judge where a product creates lasting value, whether through domain context, integrations, execution, experience, or feedback. Choose models, code, or existing tools to fit the problem.
• Own tests, observability, failure handling, and maintainability. Verify AI-generated output and build security, privacy, and applicable compliance into production work.
• Work directly in customer and partner environments, including forward deployment. Learn how customers work, deliver integrations, and carry what you learn into reusable capabilities.
• Instrument what you ship, evaluate adoption and outcomes, and change direction when the evidence calls for it.

AI Integration:

Leverage AI agents and emerging model capabilities to accelerate product discovery, software development, testing, debugging, and delivery while applying strong verification, security, privacy, and compliance practices.

Interview Process:

• Interview #1: Video Screen with Talent Acquisition Team
• Interview #2: Technical Exercise with the Team (via MS Teams)
• Interview #3: Video interview with the Hiring Manager (via MS Teams)

PAR is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. We also provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, or for your role at PAR, please contact . If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, please visit the US Department of Labor's website.