About GrowthFactor
GrowthFactor is the AI analyst for commercial real estate. It makes expansion analysis as easy as asking a question, then grounds every answer in a model tailored to your brand, so you can open the right locations, faster. Ask where to grow in plain English and see the answer on a live map.
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Product Engineer on our Product Engineering team. You will put companies in physical buildings where they belong. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape both the technical foundation and the product direction of a company at an early and critical stage.
We care about what you’ve done, not how long you’ve done it for. You will write your own tasks.
What you'll do
Drive architecture and technical direction across the full stack, backend, frontend, and data services.
Build and ship product features
Raise the technical bar for the team through architecture review, code review, and hands-on mentorship
Identify and eliminate complexity and technical debt before it becomes a blocker
Prototype and evaluate new technologies and make principled decisions about what belongs in the stack
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Designed & shipped a full-stack application involving heavy data model manipulation in Python or TypeScript.
Coordinated queries across disparate data sources with an eye towards speed
Designed, built, and maintained data pipelines to unify multiple different data sources, at different frequencies, using a common orchestration tool (e.g., Dagster, Airflow)
Built an application that involved multiplayer and/or client-side sync
Showed a lot of data on a screen really fast
Preferred qualifications
4+ years of experience with backend development using Python and/or TypeScript
4+ years of experience with relational databases and data modeling, including schema design, normalization, and query optimization in PostgreSQL
Experience building or integrating with AI agents, LLM-based workflows, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling
Experience working with geospatial data, including storage, querying, or visualization (e.g., PostGIS, GeoJSON, or similar)
Familiarity with sync engines or real-time data synchronization patterns (e.g., Zero, ElectricSQL, or similar)
Experience defining and driving technical strategy across a small engineering team, including establishing standards, reviewing architecture, and mentoring engineers
Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a high degree of ownership
About you
You simplify and accelerate by finding the most direct path to a good outcome and ruthlessly cutting what doesn't serve it. You reason from first principles rather than reaching for a playbook, and you have strong enough taste to know what good looks like in code, in product, and in process. You can separate your identity from your work, which means you're willing to throw away something you built if something better exists. You're curious, and you build without waiting for permission.
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