Senior Product Engineer — AI Platform, Equity & Stipend

Way; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in a growing startup

Full health, dental, and vision

Annual hotel and travel stipend

Office access: Austin, SF, Paris

Job summary

Way is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to build the next generation of its platform, spanning AI-powered features and end-to-end product capabilities. You will work across React, TypeScript, NestJS, and PostgreSQL, shaping problems with Product and Design, and delivering production-ready experiences for brands, operators, and guests.

The role demands a senior-level engineer with ownership mindset, comfortable shipping across frontend and backend, and a passion for UX, performance, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products in a high-quality software environment.
• Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals with production experience across browser technologies, Node.js, APIs, PostgreSQL, and cloud services, especially on GCP.
• A track record of driving complex, end-to-end features with visible customer or business impact.
• Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you speak up when something does not feel right.
• High-ownership mindset: you are a self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes responsibility for testing, reliability, security, observability, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing product capabilities across Way—from discovery and merchandising to booking, payments, the guest journey after a room is booked, reporting, and third-party integrations.
• Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Way.
• Work closely with Product and Design to shape ambiguous problems, prototype quickly, and iterate toward experiences that feel intuitive, responsive, and distinctly Way.
• Drive complex, end-to-end features across React and Next.js frontends, TypeScript and NestJS services, PostgreSQL, and event-driven workflows.
• Own a product domain or platform capability through design, implementation, testing, production release, runbook, and operational follow-through.
• Develop a deep understanding of the critical workflows and operational risks, improving the existing platform while helping establish clearer boundaries, contracts, and independently deployable capabilities.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Node.js

APIs

PostgreSQL

Next.js

NestJS

GCP

Tools

NestJS

Next.js

Job description

Way is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to build the next generation of its platform, spanning AI-powered features and end-to-end product capabilities. You will work across React, TypeScript, NestJS, and PostgreSQL, shaping problems with Product and Design, and delivering production-ready experiences for brands, operators, and guests.

The role demands a senior-level engineer with ownership mindset, comfortable shipping across frontend and backend, and a passion for UX, performance, and