Product Engineer at Zen Educate in Remote

Summary: Zen Educate is a growing company focused on solving real-world education staffing challenges through engineering excellence. The Product Engineer will play a crucial role in building and enhancing the platform that connects educators with schools, ensuring efficient operations and improved educational outcomes. Responsibilities: - Aligning with Product and Ops to clarify what problem we were solving, shaped an initial approach, and started delivering iterative improvements so we could test value quickly - Working on a major overhaul of our permissions system — moving away from hardcoded roles towards something granular and scoped per school, network, and unit - Wired up audit logging around sensitive actions so we have proper traceability in production, and built out an admin UI so non-engineers can manage roles and permissions without needing to come to us - Creating a foundational agents.md configuration for our monorepo to help us use AI more effectively when building product and writing code - Implementing backend and frontend MixPanel events for crucial workflows to better understand how users interact with our product and what we can improve on - Upgrading our React Native app to the latest Expo SDK, which meant updating dependencies, fixing compatibility issues, and resolving build and runtime problems to keep everything stable - Improving the anonymisation logic in Ditto - our internal tool for cloning production databases safely for development - Putting together the weekly DevEx metrics for the Product and Tech team, covering things like CI pass rates and deployment frequency - Addressing minor vulnerabilities that were found from our monthly red-teaming with CovertSwarm Required Qualifications: - Experience in engineering with a focus on real-world outcomes and shared learning - Ability to think productively and prioritize problem-solving over pure technology - Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with teams across different time zones - Curiosity, adaptability, and proactiveness as fundamental traits - Experience in building relationships quickly and taking ownership of problems end-to-end - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and thrive in a rapidly growing company - Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native - Strong communication skills and async habits for effective collaboration in a distributed team - Ability to shape problems and propose solutions rather than just delivering tickets - Experience in shipping products regularly and iterating quickly Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with AI technologies and their application in product development - Familiarity with cloud services like Heroku and Cloudflare - Experience in working with product managers and designers as partners - Interest in continuous learning and personal growth within the engineering field Required Skills: Ruby on Rails, React, React Native Important Skills: AI integration Nice-to-Have Skills: Curiosity, Problem solving, Team collaboration, Adaptability