Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack)
San Francisco, CA, US6+ yearsFull-time$200k – $300kPosted Jun 9, 2026
Job description
Pocket is building a category-defining platform for ambient intelligence. We need an engineer who can work across backend + frontend to ship the highest-leverage product and growth improvements - whatever moves the needle.
What you'll own
- End-to-end projects: instrumentation → backend services → web/app UI → rollout & iteration.
- Build and iterate on user-facing product features (activation, retention, paid conversion, core UX).
- Design, implement, and scale backend systems: APIs, data models, pipelines, jobs, reliability.
- Improve frontend surfaces where it matters (web product, internal tools, landing pages, onboarding flows).
- Drive experiments: set hypotheses, ship fast, measure results, and harden what works.
- Work closely with design, product, marketing, and support - and help unblock them with code.
What success looks like
- Shipped features/experiments that measurably improve activation/retention/revenue.
- Reliable systems with clear observability (logs/metrics/traces) and pragmatic correctness.
- Clean, simple architecture that stays fast to iterate on as the product evolves.
- High ownership: you proactively find the most important problems and solve them.
What we're looking for
- Have strong backend fundamentals (APIs, DBs, async jobs, caching, performance, reliability).
- Can comfortably ship frontend changes (React/TypeScript or similar), even if it’s not your “main thing.”
- Care deeply about product outcomes and can translate ambiguity into shipped work.
- Prefer shipping and learning over long debates; you can move quickly without breaking things.
- 6–10+ years of experience shipping production software (startup pace preferred).
What we care about most
- Performance and reliability by default: profiling, latency budgets, graceful degradation, and pragmatic correctness.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience running experiments / analytics instrumentation (events, funnels, cohorts).
- Experience building internal tools that make teams faster.
- Startup / zero-to-one experience.
Our stack (today)
- Mobile: Flutter
- Frontend: React (TypeScript)
- Backend: Go + Node
- Data: Postgres + Redis
What we offer
- Work directly with us and learn fast
- Direct impact on how the company operates day to day
- High-trust, high-responsibility environment
- Competitive compensation
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