# Senior Product Engineer at Wordware

- Company: Wordware (YC S24)
- What the company does: AI agents you can rely on. Backed by Y Combinator and Felicis.
- Company website: https://wordware.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wordware/jobs/NbKjip9-senior-product-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/wordware-senior-product-engineer/

## About the role

You'll own the product surface of Sauna: the interfaces people use to hand work to it, watch it happen, trust the result, and come back tomorrow.

## What they're looking for

- You've shipped complex web products and owned them after launch. We want to see the work: multiplayer experiences, large-data apps with real fetching and caching strategy, streaming or realtime UIs
- You have product taste and act on it. Give you a rough direction and you'll sketch the interaction, build it, and defend the tradeoffs
- You know React deeply: state management, when to lift into context or a store, what re-renders and why, how to write components other people want to reuse
- You're comfortable owning a full-stack feature end to end: migration, route, fetch, UI, analytics
- You care about performance and can explain your caching, invalidation, and optimistic-update choices. Duplicated network requests bother you
- You care about craft: loading states, empty states, error copy, keyboard shortcuts, the thousand small decisions that make software feel good

Tags: Engineering