Product Engineer

This is not a traditional engineering role.

The expectation is not just writing good code.

The expectation is building products people actually use.

The ideal person for this role has experienced product-market fit firsthand.

Not through courses, frameworks, or podcasts.

Through shipping, scaling, failing, iterating, and understanding user behavior deeply.

Strong full-stack fundamentals are important.

But engineering skill alone is not enough.

This role requires product instinct:

• Understanding why users behave the way they do

  
  

• Knowing what to build vs what not to build

  
  

• Making fast product decisions with incomplete information

  
  

• Caring deeply about user experience and interaction quality

  
  

At Leap, the products being built are AI-native from day one.

Not traditional products with AI layered on top.

Products are designed around the latest model capabilities across reasoning, voice, search, workflows, video, and personalization.

Someone who:

• Constantly experiments with new models and tools

  
  

• Has strong opinions on model strengths and limitations

  
  

• Uses AI heavily while building

  
  

• Naturally optimizes for speed and execution quality

  
  

• Thinks in terms of products, not just features

  
  

• Who started building early and has been tinkering with products for years. 

  
  

• Thinking is challenged directly

  
  

• Speed matters

  
  

• Clarity matters

  
  

• High agency is expected by default

  
  

• Graduated in 2023 or later

  
  

• Has built and shipped products with real users

  
  

• Strong full-stack engineering capability

  
  

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity

  
  

• Learns and iterates quickly

  
  

• High ownership and execution intensity

  
  

• A product