Senior Product Engineer / Technical Operations Lead

Tactic Systems; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tactic Systems is seeking a senior, hands-on product engineer to take software problems from requirements through design, implementation, release, and operation. You will own features across client systems, web apps, internal tools, and backend services.

You’ll ship production-ready code, design scalable data models, and maintain systems while reducing technical debt. Strong Postgres/Supabase skills and GitHub CI experience are essential, with excellent written English.

Qualifications

• Proven full‑stack production software shipping with TypeScript/React/Next.js, APIs and databases.
• Experience building features or systems from scratch and maintaining existing software.
• Hands-on Postgres or Supabase skills: schema design, migrations, access control, storage, performance, data inspection.
• Ability to own full cycle from design and development to testing, deployment and debugging.
• Willingness to work with platform APIs, automation tools, and client-specific workflows.
• Strong Git and GitHub practices: branches, PRs, reviews, CI; ability to use logs and runtime data to reproduce issues.
• Excellent written English; Spanish a plus.
• Good judgment around production risk and secure handling of credentials.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver features, services, and client systems across TypeScript, React, Next.js, APIs, and databases.
• Translate unclear client needs into practical technical designs, data models, APIs, and workflows.
• Write production code and manage changes through branches, PRs, reviews, and deployment checks.
• Refactor and reduce technical debt to improve existing systems.
• Investigate live issues across application code, data, APIs, hosting, and provider systems; provide updates to users.
• Verify changes with tests, database and log checks, and API or browser smoke tests; document outcomes and runbooks.
• Handle production changes and credentials securely.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

APIs

Databases

CI/CD

Tools

Postgres

Supabase

Git/GitHub

Vercel

Cloudflare

Job description

Role overview

Take software problems from early requirements through design, implementation, release, and ongoing operation. This is a senior, hands-on product engineering role spanning client systems, web applications, internal tools, and backend services, with responsibility for both building new capabilities and diagnosing production issues.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver features, services, and client systems across TypeScript, React, Next.js, backend logic, databases, and external integrations.
• Turn unclear product or client needs into practical technical designs, data models, APIs, and workflows.
• Write production code and deliver changes through branches, pull requests, reviews, and deployment checks.
• Improve existing systems through refactoring and targeted technical debt reduction.
• Investigate live issues across application code, data, APIs, hosting, and provider systems; provide clear updates to affected users.
• Verify changes with focused tests, database and log checks, and API or browser smoke tests; document outcomes and operational runbooks.
• Handle production changes and credentials with care.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack experience shipping production software with TypeScript, React, Next.js, APIs, and databases.
• Evidence of building features or systems from scratch, as well as maintaining existing software.
• Practical Postgres or Supabase skills, including schema design, migrations, access control, storage, performance, and data inspection.
• Ability to own the full cycle from design and development to testing, deployment, and debugging.
• Willingness to work with Xano, platform APIs, automation tools, and client-specific workflows.
• Strong Git and GitHub practices, including branches, pull requests, reviews, and CI; able to use logs and runtime data to reproduce issues.
• Excellent written English; Spanish is a plus.
• Good judgment around production risk and secure handling of credentials.

Nice to have

• Experience designing multi-tenant or client-specific systems from the ground up.
• Familiarity with Vercel, Cloudflare, provider APIs, CRM systems, or administrative tools.
• Background in product engineering, consulting, agency, or SaaS work, including supporting multiple products or client systems.