Engineering Generalist - Product Impact (Full Stack)

About Pocket

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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