United States onlyAbout Portex
About the role
What you'll do
- Partner directly with the CEO to advocate for the engineering team and act as a thought partner on product strategy
- Work closely with Product and customers to deeply understand requirements and ensure problems are solved at the right level, drawing on your highly customer-centric approach
- Plan and execute complex code migrations while managing ongoing customer demands
- Envision and execute on the long-term vision for the platform's architecture
- Build end-to-end SaaS features across the full tech stack with a focus on the backend
- Provide thoughtful code reviews and technical mentorship to other engineers
- Co-lead retrospectives with Product to drive continuous improvement across the eng team
- Estimate work, set release targets, and lead standups/sprint planning to deliver against dates
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously while assessing priorities through prioritization skills
- Manage team members and lead recruiting efforts for future team members
Qualifications
Proven track record of building new products from the ground up (0 to 1)
Experience working directly with and gathering insights from non-technical stakeholders
Natural leadership abilities with an instinct to step up, solve problems, and push those around you to level up
Exceptional communication skills to paint a vision, provide proactive updates, and escalate issues
Comfortable negotiating product roadmaps against business requirements
Entrepreneurial, extremely proactive mindset obsessed with building a company/startup
High emotional stability to keep a level head under stress
Internally motivated and driven to an exceptionally high personal bar
Open to flexing into informal Product Management responsibilities when needed
Able to prioritize and do deep work across multiple critical tasks/projects
Experience implementing AI or LLM’s into B2B workflows
Technical Skills
Deep expertise in Typescript, Node.js, architecting full-stack TypeScript apps
Solid skills with React, PostgreSQL, Redux, Prisma (nice to have)
Previous AWS experience (Pulumi a plus)
Experience implementing & driving engineering culture/best practices
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