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Principal Founding Product Engineer

Pragmatike


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 200000 - 400000
Posted: 18 August 2026 (16 days ago)
Application Deadline: 15 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: United States Remote
Compensation: $200000$400000 USD
Start Date: ASAP
Languages: Fluent English required
Type: Full-time

About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing technology company building critical infrastructure that powers high-volume real-time business operations across multiple systems and platforms.

We are seeking a Principal Founding Product Engineer to lead strategic 01 product initiatives and help define how the company turns technical capabilities into scalable products.

What Youll Do
  • Define technical and product direction for new initiatives.

  • Lead complex products from concept to scale.

  • Work directly with customers founders and product leadership.

  • Architect systems that can evolve from prototypes into production platforms.

  • Identify product opportunities through customer and market insight.

  • Establish reusable engineering patterns.

  • Mentor senior product engineers.

  • Influence company-level product and technology strategy.

What Were Looking For
  • 8 years of engineering experience.

  • Exceptional product engineering and architecture skills.

  • Multiple examples of successful 01 product development.

  • Strong product intuition and customer orientation.

  • Excellent technical communication.

  • Ability to influence product strategy through technical expertise.

Nice to Have
  • AI/ML product experience.

  • Experience in scale-ups.

  • Experience working directly with founders.

  • Experience taking products from prototype to large-scale adoption.

Why Join

Our client is building highly scalable technology that sits at the core of critical business operations offering engineers the opportunity to work on complex systems large-scale integrations and real-world technical challenges.

Youll join a collaborative fast-moving environment where ownership is encouraged decisions are made quickly and engineers have meaningful influence on architecture product direction and engineering culture.

This role offers the opportunity to tackle challenging backend problems work with modern technologies and grow alongside an ambitious team building for scale.

Full benefit package and competitive compensation.

Pragmatike is committed to a fair transparent and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age disability gender gender identity or expression marital or civil partner status pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

In accordance with GDPR your personal data will be processed lawfully fairly and securely and used solely for recruitment purposes including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration. You may request access correction or deletion of your data at any time. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.


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