Founding AI Product Engineer

About Standout

Agentic hiring marketplace

Tech description:

AI-heavy setup. We are building Standout as an agent itself. We fed the company with all the possible context so the agent can build 90% of it.

Goose mic, interest in productivity hacks, extreme curiosity for what's new is what matters.

Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript (strict)
Anthropic Claude (Opus / Sonnet / Haiku) via the AI SDK + LangGraph
Postgres on Supabase, Prisma ORM
OpenSearch (text + k-NN)
BullMQ, pg-boss, Vercel Workflow DevKit
Clerk auth, Vercel (Fluid Compute, sfo1)

Job description:

To apply:

1. run:

```
npx standout standout-founding-eng
```

2. upload results
3. post your results on X and tag `@standoutwork` () in your post

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You’d own a full slice of Standout end-to-end — either the **company experience** (how hiring managers brief us, see talent, decide) or the **talent experience** (how the people we represent get found, profiled, and intro’d). UX, UI, and the conversational agent inside it. All of it. From Figma-equivalent to prod.

The job is to make the agent unreasonably helpful. Most “AI products” feel like a chat box stapled to a CRUD app. Ours shouldn’t. The bar is: a hiring manager opens it, types one line, and gets something a senior recruiter would’ve taken a week to put together — and it looks beautiful.

**You’re a fit if:**

* You ship fast and you ship taste. The product feels right when you build it.
* You’ve spent the last year deep in vibe-coding / Cursor / Claude Code / v0 — not as a curiosity, as your actual workflow.
* You come from one of: a real product or design background, a great builder who fell into code through AI, or an engineering background where the design instinct is just there.
* You care about the small things: empty states, copy, the shape of a button, what the agent says when it has nothing to say.
* You can hold an entire product surface in your head and own it without a PM.

**You’re not a fit if:**

* You need a spec.
* You want to specialize in “the backend” or “the frontend.”
* You think AI is hype.
* You haven’t shipped something end-to-end in the last six months.

**The stack** is Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind, Postgres + Prisma, Anthropic + LangGraph agents, OpenSearch. You’ll touch all of it. We don’t have a frontend team and a backend team — we have product engineers.