What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Engineer position at The Cypress Group?
We are looking for a frontend-leaning full-stack engineer to help build a product from nothing into something customers rely on daily. This is true 0→1 work, you will not be inheriting a mature codebase or polishing edges. You will be shaping the product itself: how it looks, how it feels, and how it actually works under the hood.
This role sits at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. You will own the user-facing experience end-to-end while also building the APIs, workflows, and systems that power it. If you care deeply about craft on the frontend but are equally comfortable wiring up backend logic to make it real, this is your role.
Day to Day:
- Build the core product from the ground up—frontend, backend, and everything in between
- Own the primary user-facing application: flows, interactions, performance, and polish
- Partner closely with design to turn ideas into intuitive, high-quality user experiences
- Develop APIs and backend services that support real product workflows
- Design and implement authentication, authorization, and permissions (RBAC) from first principles
- Make key decisions on architecture, frameworks, and tradeoffs as we define the MVP
- Establish engineering standards: code quality, testing, performance, and maintainability
- Contribute to release quality and production readiness—this isn’t a prototype, it needs to hold up
Qualified candidates will have the following:
- Experience building 0→1 products where you owned meaningful parts of the user experience
- Strong frontend skills with modern frameworks like React, Next.js, or similar
- Solid backend experience in Python, with frameworks like FastAPI (or equivalent)
- Strong product instincts: you think in terms of user flows, not just components or endpoints
- Experience designing and implementing auth systems, permissions, and RBAC
- Track record of building secure, production-grade web applications
- Good system design judgment: you know when to move fast and when to build for scale
- Comfortable working across the stack without rigid boundaries
You Might Thrive Here If
- You like starting from a blank slate more than inheriting legacy systems
- You care about the details that users actually feel
- Youopi are nionated about good product and willing to challenge assumptions
- You want ownership over real product surface area, not just tickets
This is a role for someone who wants to shape the product, not just build features. Someone who enjoys the ambiguity and impact that comes with early-stage, high-ownership work.