Lead Product Engineer
- Salary
- $200K - $400K
- Level
- Lead
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Location: United States — Remote
Compensation: $200,000–$400,000 USD
Start Date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English required
Type: Full-time
About the Opportunity
Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing technology company building critical infrastructure that powers high-volume, real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms.
We are seeking a Lead Founding Product Engineer to lead the company's most important new product initiatives and establish the technical foundations for future product lines.
What You'll Do
- Lead product engineering strategy for 0→1 initiatives.
- Work directly with executive, product, engineering, and customer teams.
- Define architectures and product development frameworks.
- Lead cross-functional teams through discovery and delivery.
- Turn customer problems into differentiated products.
- Establish engineering standards for emerging product teams.
- Mentor senior product engineers.
- Influence roadmap, architecture, and product strategy.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of engineering experience.
- Proven track record of leading 0→1 products.
- Exceptional product and technical judgment.
- Strong leadership across engineering and product.
- Excellent customer and executive communication.
- Strong ability to operate with ambiguity.
Nice to Have
- AI/ML products.
- Scale-up experience.
- Previous founding or early engineering experience.
- Experience building new product teams.
Why Join?
Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations, offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems, large-scale integrations, and real-world technical challenges.
You'll join a collaborative, fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged, decisions are made quickly, and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture, product direction, and engineering culture.
This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems, work with modern technologies, and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.
Full benefit package and competitive compensation.
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The team: NAM HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 26 open in NAM. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Kubernetes (15 of 26), Python (12 of 26), TypeScript (12 of 26), Machine Learning (11 of 26), Golang (10 of 26), LLM (7 of 26), Generative AI (6 of 26)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Forward Deployed Engineer (YC experience) posted Sep 25
- Lead Software Engineer (YC Experience) posted Aug 14
- Principal Software Engineer (YC Experience) posted Aug 14
- Backend Software Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Staff Software Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Lead Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Principal Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Staff Product Manager posted Aug 14
- Founding AI Lead Engineer (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Principal Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff AI Engineer posted Aug 14
- Principal Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff Founding Product Engineer posted Aug 14
- Lead Member of Technical Staff posted Aug 14
- Member of Technical Staff (YC experience) posted Aug 14
- Senior Member of Technical Staff posted Aug 14
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer posted Aug 14
- Staff Forward Deployed Engineer posted Aug 14
- Principal Fullstack Engineer (AI) - Boston posted Aug 3
- Senior UI/Frontend Engineer (AI) posted Jul 6
- Principal ML Ops Engineer posted Apr 22
- CUDA Kernel Engineer (Remote US) posted Apr 22
- Senior Engineer (Multicloud) posted Apr 7
- Principal AI/ML Engineer posted Mar 3
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