About the Role
We are seeking a full-stack Product Engineer excited to build agentic, LLM-powered features. You will be the Directly Responsible Individual for projects, working with a lean, experienced, remote-first team that values craft and open communication.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement customer-facing, LLM-based application layers
- Design APIs for human and agent consumption
- Evaluate and iterate on models, prompts, and eval pipelines to balance quality, latency, and cost
- Take turns as the on-call engineer
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience building SaaS web applications
- Hands-on experience incorporating agents and LLMs into production over the last 2+ years
- Professional experience building with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node, Postgres (or similar RDBMS), and AWS (or similar cloud platform)
- Experience building evals, observability, or safety guardrails for LLM systems
- Experience using agentic coding tools daily and structuring work for agents
- Rigorous verification of agent output
- Dig into user problems, cut through ambiguity, and define clear outcomes before implementation
- Ability to ship and adjust course rather than waiting for a perfect plan
- Keep pace with rapidly changing tools
- Production experience with Zero or a comparable state-synchronization framework
- Enjoy writing or speaking publicly about what you learn
- Authorized to work in the United States
- Must pass a background check
Skills
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- Node
- Postgres
- AWS
- Zero
- Anthropic models
- OpenAI models
- LLMs
- Agentic tools
- API design
- Prompt engineering
- Eval pipelines
Location
- Remote within the United States
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of professional experience
- 2+ years of experience with agents and LLMs in production
Salary/Compensations
- 150k-195k
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexible, open vacation policy
- Company holidays
- Paid safe & sick days
- Volunteer PTO days
- Generous parental leave
- Annual learning stipend
- Fully remote
- Equipment shipped to you
- Generous home-office stipend
About the Company
- Shortcut is a project management platform for software teams, designed to be fast, intuitive, and lightweight.
- We focus on core needs, avoiding configuration sprawl and admin overhead.
- Our platform integrates issue tracking, sprints, and roadmaps.
- Korey, our AI layer, enhances context surfacing and work structuring.
- We believe in a future where people and agents collaborate on software development.
- We are a remote-first company with a lean, experienced team that values moving fast, trust, open communication, and the craft of building enjoyable software.
Equal Opportunity
- Shortcut is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- We provide accommodations upon request.
