Product Engineer

vvd is a company that makes tools for storytellers, worldbuilders, writers, and creators, aiming to empower human creativity through technology, especially AI tools, to craft worlds, stories, and experiences.

Location: Canada

Responsibilities

• Build features end-to-end: product thinking → implementation → launch → iteration.
• Partner tightly with design and engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into shipped product in days, not weeks.
• Own UI craft and the underlying technical decisions that make experiences fast, reliable, and scalable.
• Shape how we build: patterns, primitives, component quality, testing, and internal tooling.
• Use AI tools as a multiplier. You prompt well, iterate quickly, and maintain a high quality bar.
• Communicate directly and clearly. No corporate padding.

Requirements

• Strong product engineering fundamentals (TypeScript, React, Next.js or similar).
• Enough backend understanding to build features without getting blocked (APIs, auth, data flow, persistence, basic infra concepts).
• Taste. You can feel what’s working and what isn’t — and you can fix it.
• You can go from a rough idea to a polished implementation without waiting for a perfect spec.
• You think in systems: performance, edge cases, instrumentation, maintainability.
• You use AI tools daily to accelerate your work — not as a crutch, but as leverage.