Room for focused work
Plan work around clear outcomes and enough uninterrupted time to investigate, build and improve.
Product Engineer
Build the document, source and collaboration workflows that help a writer move from an idea to a finished piece.
Make the work more useful.
- Team
- Engineering
- Application
- Open application
- Location
- Share your location and time zone
- Arrangement
- Discussed for the specific opportunity
We welcome introductions for this area of work. Tell us what you would bring to Citation and the kind of opportunity you are looking for. We consider each introduction against current product needs.
What you would work on.
- Own a product workflow across its interface, API and data model.
- Build reliable document editing, imports and exports with clear recovery paths.
- Keep access permissions, version handling and collaboration behavior understandable.
- Work with design and support to turn a repeated problem into a useful improvement.
What you would bring.
- Experience shipping web applications with TypeScript, React and a relational database.
- A practical understanding of authentication, authorization and asynchronous work.
- Care for accessibility, performance and behavior on small screens.
- Clear written explanations of tradeoffs and a willingness to investigate unfamiliar code.
A useful example
Show a workflow you shipped, the difficult constraint and what you changed after people used it.
Show your contribution and explain the result. You can remove names and confidential details; a public portfolio is not the only way to demonstrate your work.
How we work together.
Written collaboration
Make decisions understandable in writing so teammates can contribute without attending every conversation.
Ownership with context
Follow a problem across disciplines and understand the user need behind the implementation.
Learning through the work
Share experiments, examine difficult cases and learn from people working on a different part of the product.
Tools that fit the task
Discuss the tools, equipment and access you need as part of defining the role and working arrangement.
A sustainable arrangement
Agree on location, availability, time off and compensation before starting, with expectations clear on both sides.
From introduction to conversation.
Introduce yourself
Tell us which area interests you, how you prefer to work and where we can see a relevant example. Include your location, time zone and availability.
Discuss the fit
We review the introduction against the work we need to do. When there is a relevant opportunity, we arrange a conversation about your experience and the problem.
Explore the work
Walk through a project and explain your decisions. If a practical exercise would help, agree on its scope and expectations before it starts.
Agree on the details
Clarify responsibilities, working arrangement, compensation and start date together. An introduction does not require you to share confidential work or customer data.
Include the role name, a short introduction and a relevant example. Let us know if you need an adjustment to participate in the conversation. Applicant information is handled through our privacy policy; you can use Data requests to ask about it.