React + TypeScript Product Engineer

Location

Vancouver preferred. Open to candidates in other Canadian cities.

Remote-friendly, with required overlap with Pacific Time.

Company

We are a U.S.-based early-stage AI / education technology company building intelligent product experiences for students, advisors, and internal service teams. Our product combines web applications, workflow tools, structured user data, and AI-assisted features.

We are looking for a product-minded engineer who can move fast, understand the bigger product context, and help turn prototypes into production-ready features.

Role

You will work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to build core web product features using React and TypeScript.

This role is best suited for someone who is not only comfortable implementing UI, but also able to understand user flows, data models, API contracts, and how different product modules connect over time.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain React + TypeScript web application features.

Translate PRDs, user flows, and prototypes into clean, reusable components and production-ready interfaces.

Design frontend structure around components, routing, state management, forms, API calls, loading states, error states, and edge cases.

Work with backend / workflow integrations and understand how APIs, databases, permissions, and business logic connect.

Collaborate with product and design to clarify requirements and break ambiguous ideas into executable engineering tasks.

Use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude to improve development speed, debugging, refactoring, and prototyping.

Participate in QA and product testing, especially around user flows, data state, and cross-module behavior.

Requirements

Strong experience with React and TypeScript.

Good understanding of frontend architecture, including component design, state management, routing, data flow, and project structure.

Full-stack mindset, with basic understanding of APIs, databases, permissions, data structures, and business logic.

Ability to quickly understand the overall product system, not just isolated pages.

Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with evolving requirements.

Strong self-direction, problem-solving ability, and communication skills.

Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools.

Nice to Have

Experience with Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Firebase, Flask, or FastAPI.

Experience building SaaS dashboards, internal tools, workflow tools, AI products, or education technology products.

Experience with complex forms, multi-step flows, chat-style UI, file upload, rich text editing, analytics, or event tracking.

Experience moving features from prototype to production.

Mandarin Chinese communication ability is strongly preferred, as part of the product and business team communicates in Chinese.

What We Value

You care about why a feature exists, not just what the ticket says.

You can turn unclear product requirements into clear engineering tasks.

You use AI tools effectively, but still apply your own judgment to code quality and system design.

You care about product experience, data accuracy, and long-term maintainability.

You are comfortable working with a bilingual, cross-border team.

Employment Type

Contract, part-time, or full-time can be discussed depending on fit and availability.

Compensation

Competitive and based on experience, availability, and engagement type.