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