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Product Engineer

Leap Finance · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Leap Finance

Leap finance is a one-stop destination for Indian students to fund their overseas education. Low-Interest Rate ✓No Collateral ✓100% loan coverage. Backed by Peak XV.

About the role

The ideal person for this role has experienced product-market fit firsthand.

What they're looking for

  • Understanding why users behave the way they do
  • Knowing what to build vs what not to build
  • Making fast product decisions with incomplete information
  • Caring deeply about user experience and interaction quality
  • At Leap, the products being built are AI-native from day one
  • Not traditional products with AI layered on top
More about this role

This is not a traditional engineering role.

The expectation is not just writing good code.

The expectation is building products people actually use.

The ideal person for this role has experienced product-market fit firsthand.

Not through courses, frameworks, or podcasts.

Through shipping, scaling, failing, iterating, and understanding user behavior deeply.

Strong full-stack fundamentals are important.

But engineering skill alone is not enough.

Understanding why users behave the way they do

Knowing what to build vs what not to build

Making fast product decisions with incomplete information

Caring deeply about user experience and interaction quality

At Leap, the products being built are AI-native from day one.

Not traditional products with AI layered on top.

Products are designed around the latest model capabilities across reasoning, voice, search, workflows, video, and personalization.

Constantly experiments with new models and tools

Has strong opinions on model strengths and limitations

Uses AI heavily while building

Naturally optimizes for speed and execution quality

Thinks in terms of products, not just features

Who started building early and has been tinkering with products for...

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