Product Engineering at Inngest is both exciting and challenging, ranging from backend APIs to data stores to frontend implementation.
About us: We're the reliability layer for modern applications. Inngest combines durable execution, events, and queues into a zero-infra platform with built-in observability.
You’ll be focused on building the best possible developer experience for our users by collaborating with designers, engineers and founders to launch new features or improve how our product currently works.
What you'll do
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Build features and enhancements both in open-sourced and close-sourced code that power our Cloud, end-to-end
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Collaborate with design, your engineering colleagues, and the founders to plan and implement product improvements
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Driving standard patterns in usage of Typescript/React/CSS/GraphQL and implement pragmatic solutions and code patterns throughout our codebase
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Collaborate with designers to create delightful user experiences, that save time and effort for our users
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Team up with other front-end and full-stack engineers and provide thoughtful code reviews and feedback
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Work with backend engineers to design APIs that can be used across the Inngest cloud dashboard, dev server and CLIs
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Dogfood the Inngest product and develop ideas for improvements, features, or integrations
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Communicate with our users through Github, email and Discord
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Write technical specs for features and documentation for our users
Ideal candidate
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You acted as technical lead, owning the discovery, architecture design, planning, and execution of complex projects
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You are able to identify business priorities and anticipate pitfalls and risks
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You are passionate about product engineering and you choose pragmatism at work
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You have deep understanding of modern applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance and scale
Bonus points
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6-10+ years experience as a software engineer
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Had strong influence on product outcomes
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Experience implementing user interfaces for large datasets and data visualization.
What your first 90 days will look like
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First week: You’ll learn how we work as a team and our approach to growth. You’ll also start to learn our system architecture and hopefully make a couple small contributions to the dev server UI or our cloud dashboard.
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By day 30: You’ll be proficient with our weekly cadence of work and you’ll have contributed a new feature to our dev server or cloud dashboard. You’ll fully understand our company, product, and growth strategy and start to build up context for your product mindset.
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By day 90: You’ll have shipped significant changes to our UIs that you have created the spec for. You’ll have actively participated in the discussions about the future of front-end architecture at Inngest. You’ll have contributed ideas around product and growth. We’re all aligned and mutually excited about how we work together now and in the future!
What we build with
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Backend: Go, Postgres, Redis, PubSub, FoundationDB and… Inngest (of course)
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Frontend: TypeScript, React & Next.js. Tailwind, Tanstack, & Radix primitives
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GraphQL and REST APIs
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Hosted on bare metal, GCP, AWS, and Vercel
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Github, Linear, Slack, Notion, Figma
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