Senior Full-stack Engineer

Our Mission

Prose is truly custom hair and skin care made-to-orderjust for you. Our line of custom products are made by an in-house Paris-based R&D team of gifted chemists who combine natural ingredients in innovative ways alongside dermatologists giving consumers clean skin care hair care and impeccable results.

At the heart of Proses success is Singular its proprietary AI-powered beauty-tech platform which has revolutionized personalized beauty at scale. Marrying a technology-driven approach with an apothecary-style concept all Prose hair and skin care products are personalized to your one-of-a-kind hair skin goals and environment.

Were a company that wants to change beauty practices so were changing the way beauty companies practice. As a certified B Corporation a Public Benefit Corporation and Climate Neutral were proving that good business is always sustainable. With Prose theres nothing sacrificed to bring you great productsnot trees materials wages or performance.

Prose & Singular in Numbers

• Founded in 2017 with hubs in Paris New York and Los Angeles

• 10M consultations completed

• 2M customers and 350K active subscribers

• 21M custom products made with 1M unique formulas

• 350 team members across disciplines

• $600M in lifetime sales with $165M revenue in 2024

• Profitable since 2024

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Position Summary

Prose is seeking a Senior Full-stack Engineer to design build and ship the systems behind Singular our proprietary platform. Youll be part of our Tech organization that designs builds and delivers both platform capabilities and product features that power Proses personalized beauty experience from the consultation and e-commerce journey to the manufacturing systems that turn every order into a physical made-to-order product in our NYC and LA facilities.

We are a deliberately compact senior engineering team. Every engineer owns a broad scope ships to production continuously and works with AI-augmented development practices as a core part of the craft. Youll join at a moment where were evolving toward a modular architecture with clearly separated domains and youll have a real voice in those design decisions.

Few engineering teams get to ship code that ends as a physical product formulated for one specific person. If youre passionate about end-to-end ownership technical excellence and building with the best AI tooling available wed love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Build & Ship

  • Design build and ship features end to end across our stack: Python/Django services and REST APIs on the backend React applications on the frontend.

  • Own quality on your scope: automated testing peer review observability and production monitoring.

  • Identify and address areas of technical debt implementing improvements to enhance system performance and maintainability.

• Architecture & Technical Direction

  • Contribute to our architecture evolution: domain boundaries data schemas event-driven patterns and the tradeoffs of a platform serving both e-commerce and manufacturing.

  • Participate in architecture discussions and system design decisions.

  • Advance our AI implementation across the tech org: make AI-augmented development part of your daily practice and help shape our agents skills and internal tooling rather than just consuming them.

• Collaboration & Impact

  • Collaborate closely with product design data and operations stakeholders to deliver high-quality features our scope touches everything from checkout conversion to factory throughput.

  • Bring visibility to ongoing work risks and dependencies.

  • Mentor other engineers and raise the teams bar through design and code review.

  • Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing across the team.

Key Candidate Requirements

• 5 years of professional software engineering experience with significant time on both backend and frontend in production systems.

• Strong backend experience with Python along with common libraries such as Django Rest Framework FastAPI.

• Solid modern frontend experience with React and the current JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.

• Deep understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

• A knack for writing clean readable and maintainable code.

• Hands-on AI fluency and a genuine interest in AI-assisted engineering workflows.

• Comfortable with cloud-native environments: GCP Docker CI/CD.

• Pragmatic mindset knowing when to invest in perfection and when to build a PoC.

• Autonomous on your scope: you own outcomes escalate when needed and dont wait to be told what to do.

• Prior experience in B2C e-commerce manufacturing is a plus.

• Fluency in English is required.

Compensation & Benefits

Prose fosters inclusivity learning and diversity within our teams and workplace. Just as we celebrate unique beauty every team member is encouraged to show up as their full addition to creating an environment where all individuals feel welcome we offer benefits that include:

Compensation

• Competitive base salary 6070 based on experience

• Variable bonus up to 10% based on company and individual performance

• BSPCE program

Health & Wellness

• 100% coverage of health insurance and life/disability plan (including dependents)

• Access to CSE allowance

Lifestyle & Perks

• Standard French benefits: Swile meal vouchers transport allowance and Syntec vacation bonus

• 150 worth of personalized Prose products each month

Hiring Process

Timeline

From first contact to final decision: 3 weeks

Recruiter Screen (3045 min remote) A first conversation with our dedicated recruiter. Hell walk you through the role Proses context and assess your background and motivations.

Engineering Interview 1 hour (on-site) Meet an Engineering leader from the team. Well walk you through the Tech vision ongoing initiatives and how the team works day to day and dig into your experience and technical background.

Live Case 1 hour 30 (on-site) A practical exercise conducted live with the team no take-home assignment. Well walk through a real-world design and coding challenge from our environment. Well be looking at your methodology your reasoning and your ability to stay crisp under realistic conditions.

HR Interview 1 hour (on-site) A conversation with Sabrina Gavois VP People & Culture. Well explore your mindset values and cultural fit with Prose.

CTO Interview 45 min A final conversation with Nicolas Valençot Chief Technology Officer on system thinking ownership and long-term technical vision.

Prose Values

Intentional Inclusivity

• We know the best ideas come from open minds and willingness to listen. While our products cater to the individual an invitation into our process is always open to our community.

• We value our differences and diverse backgrounds by communicating openly managing with transparency and striving to understand one anothers perspective. Its a key ingredient to our innovation.

Connected Collaboration

• Our strength as a group will outlast our efforts as individual contributors. With offices across countries staying inventive and agile deepens our clear vision and consistent communication.

• We stay in a spirit of entrepreneurial collaboration: We do not have consensus at all times but we trust one another to work toward our common goals. Our success is an expression and result of our progressive and gratifying teamwork.

Driven Together

• We value ownership and coaching that encourages employees to think constructively and creatively about the business. We view employees as leaders and individuals who are accountable resourceful and responsible. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to lead.

• We recognize that in order to continue thinking one step ahead we will need to try new things. We strive to provide an open environment that accepts this truth making space for new ideas to emerge.

Humanity Always

• We assume good intentions in every interaction keeping ourselves accountable for the climate we create. We seek to understand our co-workers through this lens of conscious benevolence authenticity and fellowship.

• We operate with the intention of preserving resources creating an environment we can all live in for our business and the world. Sustainable care is essential to our ethos as an organization. We take a mindful approach to how we think about our people (employees) and our planet.