Senior Product Engineer - Product Foundry
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves leading high-risk, full-stack initiatives as part of an autonomous founding team, focusing on rapid iteration through 3-week sprints to launch new product categories. Day-to-day responsibilities include building and operating platform systems, working with modern web stacks like TypeScript and React, and ensuring technical and product success with cross-functional stakeholders. The hire will have high visibility and impact by driving 10x growth opportunities, defining technical primitives, and shaping Replit's future as an agentic software platform.
Perks & Benefits
The position offers a fully remote work environment with an autonomous setup, including in-office reimbursement and flexible time off, plus quarterly team gatherings. Benefits include competitive salary and equity, health insurance, 401(k) matching, parental leave, and a monthly wellness stipend. Career growth is emphasized through high-agency, founding-like responsibilities, with opportunities to lead initiatives and potentially build future companies, supported by a culture of rapid iteration and lean startup intensity.
Full Job Description
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
The Mandate: Industry Disruption and 10x Scale:
Vision: Product Foundry is Replit's internal engine for innovation. We move Replit beyond being a collaborative development environment to becoming the foundational operating system for the entire next generation of software, where AI Agents are the primary actors.
The 10x Goal: Our purpose is to launch high-risk, full-stack 0→1 initiatives that define and establish entirely new, multi-billion-dollar product categories. We are seeking non-linear growth opportunities, fundamentally aiming to 10x Replit's value and addressable market by proving out unprecedented technical primitives and disruptive Go-To-Market strategies.
The Audience: We build for the next generation of creators and high-leverage users and enterprises, equipping them with tools that enable them to build anything, anywhere.
Candidates that do well here will certainly go on to build their own companies in the future! This is a high visibility role reporting to
Execution Model: High-Agency Founding Teams
Structure: We operate as a collective of in-house technical founders—not just specialized engineers. Initiatives are run by lean, autonomous squads built for velocity and maximum technical leverage. This model is centered around an Engineer DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) who maintains total ownership over the initiative's technical, product, and launch success, supported by fractional PM and Design resources.
Cadence: We enforce rapid iteration and rapid market validation via 3-week sprints per initiative. This cadence forces fast deployment, immediate user feedback, and tight alignment with the internal betting table process, mirroring the intensity and speed of a lean startup.
Required skills and experience
4+ years of professional software engineering experience
Technical company founding entrepreneurial or high visibility side projects experience preferred but not required
Understanding of the full agentic software development stack, helping coding agents build, test and review correct code.
Strong track record leading complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders
Experience building and operating platform systems that other teams depend on
Strong product judgment: you can balance UX, speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability
Comfort working in modern web stacks such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres
Example Projects You’ll Work On
Helping Replit Agent build viable alternatives to the world’s most popular SaaS vendors (Data, Decks, Videos, etc)
Replit Agent becoming a full principal within a large number of third party services (read and write)
You can use Replit fully within a wide range of chat, agentic and commerce environments
Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:
💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match
⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability
🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave
🚗 Commuter Benefits
📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend
🧑💻 Autonomous Work Environment
🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement
🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays
🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings
☕ In Office Amenities
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Reasons not to work at Replit
To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.
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