Product Engineer (Remote - US CT/ET)

Summary

Zen Educate is a growing company focused on improving education staffing through engineering excellence. They are seeking a Product Engineer to help build their platform, which connects educators and schools efficiently, while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output
• Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
• Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
• Build relationships quickly and take ownership of problems end-to-end to help grow a team around you
• Aligning with Product and Ops to clarify what problem we were solving and delivering iterative improvements
• Major overhaul of our permissions system—moving away from hardcoded roles towards something granular and scoped per school, network, and unit
• Wired up audit logging around sensitive actions for proper traceability in production and built out an admin UI for non-engineers to manage roles and permissions
• Creating a foundational configuration for our monorepo to help use AI more effectively when building product and writing code
• Implementing backend and frontend events to better understand how users interact with our product and what we can improve on
• Upgrading our React Native app to the latest Expo SDK, fixing compatibility issues and resolving build and runtime problems
• Improving the anonymisation logic in our internal tool for cloning production databases safely for development and addressing minor vulnerabilities found from monthly red-teaming

Skills

• Engineers who can make an impact on the real world problem of education staffing
• Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output
• Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
• Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
• Curiosity, adaptability and proactiveness as fundamental traits
• Ability to build relationships quickly
• Take ownership of problems end-to-end
• Help grow a team around you
• Strong communication skills and async habits
• Ability to shape problems, not just deliver tickets
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, React Native
• Ability to work in a distributed engineering team
• Willingness to invest in long-term growth and learning

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Engineers who can make an impact on the real world problem of education staffing
• Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output
• Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
• Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
• Curiosity, adaptability and proactiveness as fundamental traits
• Ability to build relationships quickly
• Take ownership of problems end-to-end
• Help grow a team around you
• Strong communication skills and async habits
• Ability to shape problems, not just deliver tickets
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, React Native
• Ability to work in a distributed engineering team
• Willingness to invest in long-term growth and learning

Benefits

• Remote (CT/ET Timezone)
• Collaborating with teams on the West Coast and in Europe, alongside building out a new hub in Chicago.
• Choose your own career path.
• Your manager is a partner, not a supervisor.
• Few Titles, infinite Levels.
• Investment over reward as a mindset.
• Distributed engineering team.
• We believe in impact and measurable outcomes, alongside shared learning.
• Balanced, sustainable work.
• Diversity is good in some ways and lacking in others.
• Hire fast, fix fast.
• Regular check-ins during onboarding to make sure expectations match reality.
• Feedback is available upon request after the process.