Product Engineer

Summary

Just Appraised is modernizing the infrastructure behind local government with AI-powered tools. They are seeking a Product Engineer to build and shape workflows, automation, and experiences, focusing on product quality and user impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship end-to-end product features across frontend, backend, and internal tooling
• Work closely with Customers and internal stakeholders to define product features, build prototypes and solutions end to end
• Talk directly with users and government stakeholders to understand workflows and pain points
• Own projects from discovery through launch and iteration
• Design scalable systems, APIs, workflows, and data models
• Rapidly prototype AI-enabled features and operational tooling
• Improve developer experience, product reliability, and system performance

Skills

• 4+ years of software engineering experience combined with product ownership
• Experience working with customers and stakeholders to identify product vision
• Strong full-stack development experience with modern web technologies
• Experience working in high-ownership startup or growth-stage environments
• Product mindset: you think about customer outcomes, usability, and business impact
• Ability to move quickly with good judgment and minimal oversight
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating cross-functionally
• Experience balancing speed with maintainable engineering practices
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping create structure where needed
• Experience building workflow or operations software
• Experience with AI-assisted products or LLM integrations
• Background working closely with customers or implementation teams
• Startup experience at companies in the scaling stage (~150–500 employees)
• Experience owning products or major features end-to-end
• Interest in civic tech or government technology

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 4+ years of software engineering experience combined with product ownership
• Experience working with customers and stakeholders to identify product vision
• Strong full-stack development experience with modern web technologies
• Experience working in high-ownership startup or growth-stage environments
• Product mindset: you think about customer outcomes, usability, and business impact
• Ability to move quickly with good judgment and minimal oversight
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating cross-functionally
• Experience balancing speed with maintainable engineering practices
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping create structure where needed

Nice to Haves

• Experience building workflow or operations software
• Experience with AI-assisted products or LLM integrations
• Background working closely with customers or implementation teams
• Startup experience at companies in the scaling stage (~150–500 employees)
• Experience owning products or major features end-to-end
• Interest in civic tech or government technology

Benefits

• Meaningful, mission-driven work with real-world impact
• High ownership and autonomy
• Small, collaborative team with strong product velocity
• Opportunity to shape both product direction and engineering culture
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and equity opportunity