Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elly is a company focused on building an intelligent financial guide to help people navigate their financial realities. They are seeking an early product engineer to lead the frontend experience of their AI-powered financial planning product, working across web and mobile platforms while also engaging in backend and product strategy as needed.
Responsibilities
- Own major parts of the product experience across web, iOS, and Android
- Design and build intuitive conversational, interactive interfaces for financial and life planning that feel like a partner, not a web form
- Turn ambiguous product ideas into polished, production-ready experiences with strong UX, performance, accessibility, reliability, and observability
- Build in TypeScript across the stack when needed, including frontend, API contracts, data fetching, auth flows, background jobs, and integrations
- Help define our frontend architecture, component system, design patterns, mobile/web code-sharing strategy, and product engineering standards
- Use agentic software engineering tools and workflows as real leverage, not as demos: prototyping, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, code review, documentation, and operational automation
- Contribute to the product’s AI layer, including multi-model orchestration, LLM UX, evaluation loops, tool use, reliability, latency, cost, and failure-mode handling
- Work closely with founders, customers, and early users. Ship quickly, watch what happens, and iterate
Skills
- You have built and shipped high-quality product experiences that real users depend on
- You are excellent with React, TypeScript, modern frontend architecture, state/data management, and production UI performance
- You have strong product and design judgment. You care about the difference between a screen that technically works and an experience that feels obvious, trustworthy, and fast
- You are genuinely AI-native in how you build. You have a portfolio, shipped product, open-source work, technical write-up, or demo showing how you use AI/agentic systems to create meaningful leverage
- You are comfortable moving beyond the frontend when needed: APIs, databases, auth, observability, infra, deployment, security, and product analytics do not scare you
- You can operate in a seed-stage environment where requirements are incomplete, priorities change, and ownership is broad
- You communicate clearly, write things down, make good tradeoffs, and prefer shipping small, high-quality increments over disappearing into large speculative rewrites
- You work well in a remote, distributed environment: proactive communication, strong ownership, written clarity, and good judgment around when to sync vs. work async
- Experience with React Native, Expo, TanStack Query/Router, Tailwind, Uniwind, HeroUI, Cloudflare, PostgreSQL, PlanetScale, Terraform/OpenTofu, or AI observability/evaluation tooling
- Experience building financial, data-heavy, regulated, privacy-sensitive, or consumer trust-heavy products
- Experience with LLM-powered UX, streaming interfaces, agent orchestration, tool-calling, evals, retrieval, structured outputs, or multi-model systems
- Experience as a founder, founding engineer, product engineer, design engineer, or high-agency early startup builder
Benefits
- Meaningful early-stage option equity
- Fully remote, distributed team
- Periodic in-person get togethers will be integral to our Operating cadence
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