Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WorldStrides is a global provider of educational travel and experiential learning programs. The Product Engineer will identify high-leverage business problems, conduct discovery with stakeholders, and build AI-assisted full-stack prototypes and pilots. The role will partner with IT and engineering to transition successful solutions into enterprise production systems.
Responsibilities
- Embed with stakeholders across lines of business to understand how work actually gets done and where the real opportunity is — whether that's an unmet customer need, a missing capability, or a broken workflow
- Identify and frame opportunities, then qualify them: is the problem worth solving — material, real, measurable, and feasible to build?
- Build the case for the work — quantify the prize, whether that's revenue or growth, a better customer experience, or hard savings, cost avoidance, and capacity released — and pressure-test it with finance and product partners before committing the team's time
- Design and build both to support proof-of-concept and pilot — working software, not slideware
- Use AI-assisted development to move fast: speed and learning matter more than polish at the POC stage
- Connect prototypes to real systems of record (i.e., Dataverse, in-house systems) through approved integration patterns, reading and writing only via sanctioned product-owner requests
- Run pilots with real users, instrument outcomes, and iterate against evidence
- Build to be portable from day one: clean, reviewable code that engineering can adopt rather than rebuild
- Partner with the IT organization to graduate prototypes to production, and leverage org-wide DevOps and SDLC (trunk-based development, PR and peer review, CI/CD, observability) as those capabilities mature
- Document architecture, decisions, and assumptions so the work survives the handoff
- Every project is a live R&D loop. Surface the patterns, edge cases, and insights you find so they shape the broader product and platform roadmap
- Partner effectively across multiple business areas and levels of leadership to identify, appreciate, and leverage varying perspectives, ways of working, and priorities
Skills
- * Strong customer focus and insights-driven prioritization. You care deeply about delivering solutions that create real customer value, support business goals, and compound the leverage of our technologies and operations
- * 1-3 years building software, products, or automations in a role where you owned outcomes — not just executed assigned tickets
- * Demonstrated ability to build full-stack: you can stand up a working front end and wire it to back-end logic and data
- * Evidence you can run discovery with stakeholders or users — you've talked to real people, understood their need or their problem, and translated it into something you built. Say so explicitly, with the outcome
- * AI-assisted development fluency: you build *with* AI tools (coding agents, LLM application patterns), not around them. We care that you can learn new AI tooling fast and that you're staying up-to-date on the latest advancements — far more than which specific tools you've used before
- * Clear written and verbal communication. You can explain a tradeoff to a business leader and a data model to an engineer in the same afternoon
- * Bias toward shipping. You'd rather have a rough working prototype in front of a user this week than a perfect plan next month
- *Technical*
- * Front-end: React, modern JS/TypeScript, responsive UI
- * Back-end & data: API design and integration, SQL, relational data modeling; comfort reading/writing to systems of record under governance
- * AI-assisted build: coding agents and AI development tools; LLM application patterns including prompting, RAG, tool/agent orchestration, and eval design
- * Our environment is Microsoft-ecosystem aligned, including SSO/AD for auth, Azure DevOps Git for source control, Dynamics Dataverse, and .NET as the production handoff languages
- *Product*
- * Discovery and problem framing: user and stakeholder research, opportunity identification, getting to the real need behind the ask
- * Distillation of complex experiences and workflows, including identification of when to simplify or eliminate elements while maintaining or improving outcomes
- * Opportunity qualification and prioritization against a clear value framework
- * Value modeling: sizing impact credibly enough to defend with finance
- * Outcome ownership: defining success metrics and holding to them after launch
- *Human*
- * Stakeholder empathy and the ability to earn trust quickly inside teams you don't belong to
- * Radical ownership — you treat the problem as yours end to end
- * Adaptability — the tools and AI capabilities will change under you, repeatedly. You stay ahead of that
- * Handoff discipline — you measure success by what reaches production and gets adopted, not by what you personally built
- * Experience integrating applications with enterprise systems of record via APIs
- * Familiarity with the Microsoft ecosystem (Azure, Azure DevOps, Dynamics/Dataverse, M365) or the ability to ramp into it quickly
- * Exposure to LLM application development — prompt design, retrieval-augmented patterns, agent/tool-use chains, and especially **evaluation** (building checks that catch hallucinations and regressions before they reach a pilot)
- * Comfort working inside messy, real-world business constraints — legacy workflows, fragmented data, security and compliance gates
- * Engineering hygiene: version control and trunk-based development, pull requests and peer review, secrets kept out of source control, SSO/AD-based identity. Familiarity with CI/CD and observability is a plus
Benefits
- Fun & driven environment.
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage, life, accidental death and dismemberment, accident, critical illness, and disability insurance, FSA healthcare, FSA dependent care, HSA with employer contribution, and generous 401k match.
- 11 paid floating corporate holidays, 1 paid volunteer day & up to 25 PTO days to start – accrue up to 28 over 3 years, 4 mental health days, and 5 bereavement days.
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 annually
- $1,000 towards professional certifications annually
- Opportunities for paid and discounted travel.
- Flexible work schedule providing on-site, remote, and virtual office opportunities.
- Encouraged participation in our Employee Resource Groups and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion council.
- Fitness Center and café onsite at select locations.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Parental, Caregiver, and Disability leave.
- Team Member Discount Program
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