Product & Platform Generalist Engineer — SF

Orthogonal; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Orthogonal in San Francisco is hiring a generalist engineer to work across the product and platform. You will build user-facing features, backend services, API integrations, and internal tools based on what the team needs most. You’ll work directly with the founders and users.

This is a full-time, in-person role in San Francisco, reporting to the Founders and joining a small, collaborative team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping software across more than one part of the stack.
• Comfortable learning unfamiliar systems and tools.
• Strong foundation in software engineering and computer science.
• Experience with APIs, databases, and modern web applications.
• Able to take an ambiguous problem from investigation through production.
• Comfortable working closely with a small team and changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build features across Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Postgres.
• Add and maintain third-party API integrations.
• Work on product interfaces, backend services, and internal tools.
• Debug problems across the stack and improve reliability.
• Talk with users and turn their feedback into product changes.
• Help decide what to build and how to build it.

Skills

3+ years experience

Full-stack experience

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Postgres

Job description

Orthogonal in San Francisco is hiring a generalist engineer to work across the product and platform. You will build user-facing features, backend services, API integrations, and internal tools based on what the team needs most. You’ll work directly with the founders and users.

This is a full-time, in-person role in San Francisco, reporting to the Founders and joining a small, collaborative team.