Product Engineer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Overlap is seeking a Product Engineer in San Francisco to help build the next generation of AI-powered video tooling. You’ll work across the product and engineering stack with founders, taking features from idea to production and collaborating with customers.

You’ll ship core features in Next.js frontend and Python backend, deploy on Google Cloud, and own projects end-to-end with autonomy from day one. Strong coding skills and startup grit preferred; visa sponsorship not offered.

Qualifications

• Built and deployed real web products.
• Excellent programmer and problem solver.
• Proficient with frontier coding agents.
• Experience with AI coding tools and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship core product features across our Next.js frontend and Python backend.
• Turn customer problems into products.
• Build AI-native product experiences and agentic workflows.
• Own projects end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Improve the performance and reliability of our infrastructure.
• Work across our Google Cloud stack.
• Contribute to product and interface design.
• Move quickly, talk to users, and ship constantly.

Skills

Built real web products

Excellent programmer

AI coding tools

Frontier coding agents

Own ambiguity

Tools

Next.js

React

Python

FastAPI

GCP

Firebase

Kubernetes

Job description

Product Engineer

San Francisco · In-Person · Full-Time

Overlap builds AI agents that turn long-form video into high-performing short-form content for many of the world’s largest media companies.

Our software identifies the best moments in video, edits and styles them, and distributes them across social platforms — automating work that traditionally requires teams of editors and social media managers.

We work with some of the largest media companies in the world and thousands of creators. We’re a small, fast-moving team, and we’re looking for an exceptional Product Engineer to help build the next generation of Overlap.

The Role

You’ll work directly with the founders and have significant ownership over what we build and how we build it.

This is not a narrowly scoped frontend or backend role. You’ll work across the product and engineering stack, taking features from idea → production and working closely with the customers using them.

You’ll:

• Build and ship core product features across our **Next.js frontend and Python backend**
• Turn customer problems into products
• Build AI-native product experiences and agentic workflows
• Own projects end-to-end: architecture, implementation, deployment, and iteration
• Improve the performance and reliability of our infrastructure
• Work across our Google Cloud stack
• Contribute to product and interface design
• Move quickly, talk to users, and ship constantly

You’ll have an unusual amount of autonomy and responsibility from day one.

Who We're Looking For

We care much more about how good you are at building than how many years you’ve been doing it.

You’re likely a strong fit if you:

• Have built and deployed real web products
• Are an excellent programmer and problem solver
• Proficient in using frontier coding agents
• Move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Are comfortable owning ambiguous problems with little hand-holding
• Have strong product instincts and care about the details users notice
• Thrive in a high-intensity startup environment

Especially Valuable

• Experience building products **0→1**
• Exceptional proficiency with AI coding tools and agentic development workflows
• Experience with Next.js, React, Python, or FastAPI
• Experience with GCP, Firebase, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure
• Experience building with LLMs, multimodal AI, video, or machine learning systems
• Strong design instincts or experience with Figma
• Previous startup or high-ownership engineering experience

You do not need to check every box. If you’re an unusually strong builder, we want to hear from you.

Why Overlap

Work on hard, interesting problems

You’ll work across AI agents, multimodal models, video processing, distributed systems, infrastructure, and product design.

Ship to real customers

We have real customers operating at meaningful scale. Engineers here aren't building speculative demos — what you build can go into production quickly and be used immediately. Customers include iHeart Media, Barstool Sports, Yahoo, Stripe, Forbes, Pubity, Almost Friday, and many more.

Have outsized ownership

We’re still small enough that one great engineer can materially change the trajectory of the product and company. There are very few layers between having an idea and shipping it.

Work directly with the founders

You’ll be close to product decisions, customer conversations, and company strategy rather than receiving tickets several layers removed from the problem.

Grow with the company

Overlap is YC-backed and growing quickly. Early team members can earn meaningful equity, take on rapidly expanding responsibility, and help define the engineering culture as we scale.

Logistics

• Full-time
• In-person in San Francisco
• Must already be authorized to work in the United States
• We are currently unable to sponsor visas

If you’re an exceptional engineer who wants to build ambitious AI products, move quickly, and have outsized ownership, **we’d love to hear from you.**