Product Engineer

<p> <strong>Headquarters:</strong> Canada </p> <p>We know applying for jobs is exhausting. Endless text full of buzzwords and requirements you'll never actually use. We'll skip that.</p><p>We're <strong>vvd</strong>. We make tools for storytellers — worldbuilders, writers, creators. Our goal is simple: empower people to create worlds, stories, and experiences that others can get lost in.</p><p>We're still at the beginning of our own story, and we're looking for a few people to help write the next chapters.</p><p>In a moment where "AI creative tools" are pumping out slop on one side and vicious debate on the other, we're choosing a different path: use this technology to empower human creativity and craft, not replace it.</p><p>This isn't going to be easy — but you'll actually shape something real. Something that will reach millions of people. You'll own it end-to-end, in a way that leaves a mark you can point to and say: <em>I built that.</em></p><h3>What a Product Engineer means at vvd</h3><p>A Product Engineer here is a <strong>more technical Design Engineer</strong>.</p><p>You still care deeply about taste, feel, motion, and craft. But you also go further down the stack: data models, APIs, performance, reliability, and the messy systems work needed to ship great product.</p><p>You are also <strong>extremely comfortable with AI tooling</strong>. You use it daily (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to explore solutions, generate and refine code, debug faster, and ship at a pace that would be hard to match otherwise.</p><h3>What you’ll do</h3><ul><li>Build features end-to-end: product thinking → implementation → launch → iteration.</li><li>Partner tightly with design and engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into shipped product in days, not weeks.</li><li>Own UI craft <em>and</em> the underlying technical decisions that make experiences fast, reliable, and scalable.</li><li>Shape how we build: patterns, primitives, component quality, testing, and internal tooling.</li><li>Use AI tools as a multiplier. You prompt well, iterate quickly, and maintain a high quality bar.</li><li>Communicate directly and clearly. No corporate padding.</li></ul> <h3>What we care about</h3><p>Experience helps, but it’s not a gate. If you’ve built and shipped real things — jobs, side projects, experiments — and you can walk us through what you built, why you built it that way, what broke, and how you solved it, you’re good.</p><p>Ownership matters more than pedigree.</p><h3>Specifically</h3><ul><li>Strong product engineering fundamentals (TypeScript, React, Next.js or similar).</li><li>Enough backend understanding to build features without getting blocked (APIs, auth, data flow, persistence, basic infra concepts).</li><li>Taste. You can feel what’s working and what isn’t — and you can fix it.</li><li>You can go from a rough idea to a polished implementation without waiting for a perfect spec.</li><li>You think in systems: performance, edge cases, instrumentation, maintainability.</li><li>You use AI tools daily to accelerate your work — not as a crutch, but as leverage.</li></ul><h3>Extra pluses</h3><ul><li>Experience with Figma or similar design tools for rapid prototyping.</li><li>You care about accessibility and inclusive UX.</li><li>You’ve built interactions and motion that feel <em>good</em>, not just functional.</li><li>You read fiction, build worlds, or create things for fun.</li></ul> <p><strong>To apply:</strong> <a href="https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/vvd-product-engineer">https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/vvd-product-engineer</a></p>