Product Engineer

SchooLinks • Full-time • Remote (Austin, Texas, United States) • 1m ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

SaaS product teams increasingly expect engineers to own outcomes, not just tickets, and this Product Engineer role reflects that shift. The listing points to a venture backed, product led SaaS environment with a broad surface area of user facing tools, where full stack work spans backend services and a modern web frontend. The emphasis on AI native delivery signals a workflow where planning, implementation, and communication are treated as a single engineering responsibility.

For a SaaS career, the role offers practice in the parts that compound over time: turning ambiguous product direction into shippable increments, maintaining quality through tests and debt reduction, and operating software that must scale reliably. Exposure to release notes, product documentation, and cross functional change management mirrors how mature SaaS organizations coordinate launches and reduce support load. The stack listed also maps well to common SaaS architectures, making the experience portable across similar companies.

This role suits an engineer who prefers end to end ownership and is comfortable working with limited initial structure once direction is agreed. It aligns with someone who communicates clearly in writing, uses AI tools deliberately rather than experimentally, and values closing the loop from build to rollout to operational support. Austin based candidates who want hands on product impact will find the setup especially relevant.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial aid planning, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others.

We are looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer who ships complete features autonomously. This role is for engineers who work AI-native: using tools like Claude to write specs, build, QA, document, and communicate their work across the organization.

Engineers in this role collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to validate direction, then own execution end-to-end. Strong candidates are comfortable with ambiguity, iterate quickly, and take responsibility for how their work lands with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams.

This role is for engineers based in Austin, Texas. We do not have the ability to sponsor H-1B Visas.

What you’ll do

• Own features end-to-end: write specs and plan with Claude, build, QA, write release notes, create product documentation, and socialize changes with Marketing, Customer Success, and other teams

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to align on solutions, then execute autonomously once direction is set

• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable full-stack code across our Django backend and React frontend

• Use AI tools as a core part of your workflow for planning, building, and delivering

• Iterate rapidly on solutions by proposing, testing, and refining ideas

• Write tests and address technical debt to elevate codebase quality

• Design and build solutions that scale to millions of users

• Review requirements and user stories and provide timely, meaningful feedback

• Participate in on-call rotations

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong proficiency in Django, Django Rest Framework (DRF), and React

• Demonstrated ability to ship complete features autonomously, including writing your own specs

• AI-native work style: active use of AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for planning, coding, and documentation

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to navigate unclear requirements and propose solutions