Product Engineer, New Products
Frontend Engineer · Senior · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
As a Product Engineer at Replit, you'll drive the development of next-generation AI-native products from concept to launch, building sophisticated user experiences across presentation software, data applications, and visual editing tools. This role combines frontend expertise with full-stack capabilities, requiring deep knowledge of TypeScript, React, and agentic software development workflows to create intuitive interfaces that democratize software creation through natural language. You'll own complete product experiences working in lean, autonomous teams within Replit's innovative platform that enables millions of users worldwide to build applications using AI assistance.
Responsibilities
- Own Complete Product Experiences: Take major product initiatives from initial concept through design, implementation, launch, measurement, and iterative improvement, maintaining meaningful ownership over technical direction and product quality outcomes.
- Build AI-Native User Interfaces: Architect and implement intuitive interfaces for generating, editing, arranging, and collaborating on AI-created presentations, data applications, and visual artifacts that feel as precise and controllable as traditionally authored content.
- Deliver High-Quality Frontend Experiences: Optimize frontend experiences across interaction design, typography, layout, motion, accessibility standards, performance optimization, and error recovery to ensure products meet Replit's quality standards.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with users, Product, Design, and AI engineers to understand real workflows, conduct user testing, gather feedback, and translate insights into product improvements and new features.
- Create Reusable Product Primitives: Build and maintain reusable editing, visualization, collaboration, and artifact-management components that accelerate development of future products across the Replit platform ecosystem.
- Work Across the Full Stack: Contribute to backend systems including Node.js server development, API design, database modeling with Postgres, and production debugging to support comprehensive product functionality.
- Develop Feedback Loops: Create evaluation frameworks and feedback mechanisms that improve the visual quality and functionality of Agent-generated artifacts, enabling better user experiences.
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
TypeScript Expertise
Advanced proficiency with TypeScript for building type-safe, scalable frontend applications with strong architectural patterns and production-grade code quality.
React and Modern Frontend Frameworks
Deep experience with React including component architecture, hooks, state management solutions, rendering optimization, and performance tuning for complex interactive applications.
HTML and CSS Mastery
Expert-level knowledge of semantic HTML, CSS layout systems (Flexbox, Grid), responsive design principles, accessibility standards (WCAG), and CSS performance optimization.
Browser Performance and Optimization
Strong understanding of browser performance characteristics, including rendering pipelines, memory management, network optimization, and tools for performance profiling and debugging.
Full Stack Development
Comfortable working across Node.js backend development, REST API design, database schema design with Postgres, and production troubleshooting to support full-featured products.
Agentic Software Development
Working knowledge of agentic workflows, understanding how AI coding agents build, test, review, and operate software systems within development environments.
Application State Management
Proficiency with state management patterns and libraries, handling complex application state, data flow, and synchronization across distributed systems.
Education
Computer Science or Related Field (Preferred)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience demonstrating deep software engineering fundamentals and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience
4+ Years Professional Software Engineering
Minimum 4 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong track record of shipping high-quality, user-facing products in production environments.
Product-Minded Development
Demonstrated ability to develop strong product judgment, understand user needs, balance technical trade-offs, and maintain focus on business impact alongside technical excellence.
User-Facing Product Delivery
Proven experience building and shipping complete user-facing features, managing quality throughout development lifecycle, and handling post-launch iterations based on real user behavior.
Full Ownership Mentality
Track record of taking complete ownership of features or products, demonstrating founder-like thinking, autonomous decision-making, and accountability for outcomes.
Skills
Required
TypeScript
Advanced TypeScript programming for frontend and full-stack development with emphasis on type safety and scalable architecture.
React
Deep React expertise including component composition, state management, performance optimization, and building complex interactive user interfaces.
HTML/CSS
Expert-level HTML semantic markup and CSS for responsive layouts, accessibility, visual design implementation, and performance optimization.
Browser APIs and DOM Manipulation
Mastery of browser APIs, DOM operations, event handling, and advanced browser capabilities for building sophisticated interactive experiences.
Frontend Performance Optimization
Experience optimizing rendering performance, reducing bundle sizes, improving Time to Interactive (TTI), and profiling frontend applications.
Node.js
Comfortable backend development with Node.js, including server architecture, request handling, and middleware implementation.
Database Design
Understanding of relational database design patterns, normalization, query optimization, and working with SQL databases like Postgres.
Accessibility Standards
Working knowledge of WCAG guidelines, semantic HTML for accessibility, ARIA attributes, keyboard navigation, and inclusive design practices.
Responsive Design
Expertise in building responsive interfaces that work seamlessly across different screen sizes, devices, and input methods with mobile-first approaches.
Agentic AI Workflows
Understanding of AI agent architectures, how coding agents function, tool calling patterns, and designing interfaces that work with AI-generated content.
Preferred
Visual Editor Development
Nice to haveExperience building visual editors, WYSIWYG tools, or content creation software with rich editing capabilities and direct manipulation interfaces.
Presentation Software
Nice to haveBackground working on presentation tools, slide editors, or similar creative software that combines visual design with structured content.
Data Visualization
Nice to haveExperience creating interactive data visualization tools, dashboards, or analytics interfaces that make complex data accessible and actionable.
Canvas and Graphics Systems
Nice to haveWorking knowledge of HTML5 Canvas, SVG, WebGL, or graphics libraries for building sophisticated visual rendering systems and interactive graphics.
Rich Text Editing
Nice to haveExperience implementing rich text editors, markdown processors, or content formatting systems with advanced text manipulation capabilities.
Real-Time Collaboration
Nice to haveExperience building collaborative editing features, handling concurrent user actions, conflict resolution, and real-time synchronization.
Developer Tools Experience
Nice to haveBackground building developer-focused products, IDEs, code editors, or development environment tools that enhance developer productivity.
AI Generation UI Patterns
Nice to haveExperience designing user experiences around AI generation, handling streaming responses, tool calls, token-by-token updates, and long-running agent workflows.
Founding or Early-Stage Experience
Nice to haveExperience founding a technical company, serving as a founding engineer at a startup, or shipping high-visibility independent projects with complete product ownership.
Complex Interactive Systems
Nice to haveBuilding sophisticated interactive interfaces with advanced state management, real-time updates, and complex user workflows.
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 180,000 – 250,000
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Competitive Equity Package
Significant equity grants that align your success with company growth, providing long-term wealth building opportunity as Replit scales its platform and user base.
401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
401(k) program with a 4% company match (US only) to support your retirement planning and long-term financial security.
Comprehensive Health Coverage
Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans providing comprehensive healthcare coverage, with additional life insurance for income protection.
Disability Protection
Short-term and long-term disability coverage providing financial protection in case of unexpected illness or injury.
Family and Caregiver Support
Paid parental leave, medical leave, and caregiver leave supporting work-life balance and family obligations.
Flexible Time Off Policy
Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus company holidays, enabling you to manage your schedule and take time when needed for rest and personal priorities.
Monthly Wellness Stipend
Monthly wellness budget for gym memberships, fitness classes, mental health services, or other wellness activities that support your health.
Commuter Benefits
Commuter benefits program for in-office employees, reducing transportation costs through pre-tax deductions and transit assistance.
Office Setup Reimbursement
In-office employee reimbursement for ergonomic furniture, monitors, and other setup needs to ensure a comfortable workspace.
In-Office Amenities
Amenities at the Foster City headquarters including coffee, collaboration spaces, and equipment for in-office employees on hybrid schedule.
Quarterly Team Gatherings
Regular company and team offsites fostering cross-functional collaboration, team bonding, and alignment on strategic initiatives.
Autonomous Work Environment
Trust-based autonomous work culture emphasizing ownership, decision-making authority, and minimal micromanagement with focus on outcomes.
Full posting
Original listing.
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
About the Role
As a Product Engineer, you’ll take emerging ideas from concept to polished experiences. You’ll build sophisticated, intuitive user experiences while working across AI models, agentic workflows, and all parts of web infrastructure to ship complete products.
The Goal: Build products that can define major new categories for Replit. You will combine the flexibility of software with the accessibility of presentations, spreadsheets, dashboards, and visual editors, enabling anyone to create powerful, interactive artifacts through natural language.
The Audience: We build for the next generation of creators, knowledge workers, and high-leverage teams. Our users should be able to turn an idea, dataset, or business problem into a polished, editable, and shareable product just by themselves.
Candidates who thrive here often have the product judgment, technical range, and ownership mindset associated with founders. This is a high-visibility role working closely with product leadership.
How we work
Structure: We operate as a collective of in-house technical founders, not narrowly specialized engineers. Initiatives are run by lean, autonomous teams built for velocity and technical leverage. Engineers maintain meaningful ownership over technical direction, product quality, and launch success, supported by Product and Design partners.
Cadence: We work in focused three-week sprints, shipping quickly, observing real user behavior, and incorporating feedback into each iteration. We value decisive execution, thoughtful experimentation, and the ability to make progress without perfectly defined requirements.
What you’ll do
Own major product experiences from initial concept through design, implementation, launch, measurement, and continued improvement
Invent and build intuitive interfaces for generating, editing, arranging, and collaborating on AI-created presentations, data applications, and visual artifacts
Deliver exceptional frontend experiences across interaction design, typography, layout, motion, accessibility, performance, and error recovery
Partner directly with users, Product, Design, and AI engineers to understand real workflows, test ideas, and turn feedback into better products
Create reusable editing, visualization, and collaboration primitives that accelerate future products across Replit
Required Skills and Experience
4+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong record of shipping high-quality, user-facing products
Understanding of the full agentic software development stack, helping coding agents build, test and review correct code
Deep experience with TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, along with strong knowledge of browser performance, application state, responsive design, and accessibility
Strong product judgment and visual taste, with the ability to balance usability, speed, correctness, polish, and long-term maintainability
Comfort working across the full stack, including Node.js, APIs, Postgres, data models, and production debugging
Familiarity with agentic software development and how coding agents build, test, review, and operate software
Bonus Points
Building visual editors, presentation software, creative tools, data applications, developer tools, or collaboration products
Working with canvas or graphics systems, rich text, direct manipulation, real-time collaboration, data visualization, or complex interactive interfaces
Designing user experiences around AI generation, streaming responses, tool calls, and long-running agent workflows
Founding a technical company, working as a founding engineer, or shipping a high-visibility independent project
These experiences are preferred, but not required. We care most about what you have built, the quality of your product thinking, and your ability to learn quickly.
Example Projects You’ll Work On
Building on top of our Replit Slides AI-native presentation product where users can generate beautiful decks, directly edit elements, collaborate with others, and reliably export their work
Enable Replit Agent to turn raw datasets and natural-language questions into interactive, trustworthy data applications
Design visual tools that make AI-generated work feel as precise, editable, and controllable as traditionally authored content
Build reusable editing, visualization, collaboration, and artifact-management systems that power multiple new Replit products
Develop feedback loops and evaluations that improve the visual quality of Agent-generated artifacts
This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:
💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)
⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office Only)
📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)
🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)
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Interviewing + Culture at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
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