Staff Product Engineer (Fullstack)

About Pair Team

As a Staff Product Engineer at Pair Team, you’ll be a key technical leader driving the evolution of our care delivery platform. You’ll take ownership of complex, cross-functional initiatives that directly impact our patients and clinical partners—designing scalable systems, shaping architectural direction, and mentoring engineers along the way.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development of end-to-end product features, with a focus on long-term scalability, performance, and impact
• Set technical direction and architectural standards across projects and pods
• Identify and solve high-leverage technical problems, balancing speed with thoughtful design
• Collaborate closely with product, design, clinical, and operations teams to deliver cohesive, patient-centered solutions
• Serve as a technical mentor and multiplier—uplifting the team’s capabilities and contributing to our engineering culture
• Drive alignment between technical execution and business goals, ensuring measurable outcomes

This is a high-impact opportunity for someone excited to blend deep technical leadership with mission-driven product work—building systems that improve access to care for underserved communities.

Who You Are

• Leadership & Influence: A recognized leader, respected for technical ability, direction-setting, and ability to navigate ambiguity. Leads cross-team initiatives and influences without authority across engineering, product, operations, and medical.
• Technical Expertise: recognized as an expert in their domain area but able to operate effectively in other domains when needed
• Execution & Ownership: Owns high-impact, cross-system projects. Drives progress across a domain and ensures delivery on both technical and business outcomes.
• Force Multiplier: Uplifts not only engineers but also PMs and designers. Leads by example to raise the bar across disciplines.
• Communication & Alignment: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences. Aligns stakeholders even when goals and definitions are evolving; creates clarity from chaos.
• Systems Thinking: Designs scalable solutions with a deep understanding of interconnected systems. Anticipates downstream effects and communicates complex dynamics clearly.
• Business Impact: Deeply understands business and operational goals. Connects them to day-to-day technical work, ensuring alignment and measurable outcomes.
• Player & Coach: Seamlessly shifts between strategy and execution — no problem too big or small. Equally effective leading execution (e.g., as a pod lead) or through deep technical contributions.
• Analytical & Data-Driven: Extracts and analyzes data independently. Synthesizes KPIs and qualitative insights to inform decisions and improve products.
• Growth-Oriented: Continuously seeks new challenges and growth. Acts as a multiplier for the team’s impact and helps shape the technical culture.
• Bias for Action: Delivers value iteratively, avoiding over-engineering. Breaks down complex problems into shippable steps and balances planning with execution.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a high-impact individual contributor, building and scaling user-facing products in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to design and deliver complex, full-stack web applications across both frontend and backend systems
• Strong experience with relational database design and data modeling
• Proficiency with modern web frameworks—React and Ruby on Rails experience required
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS preferred)
• Excited to leverage AI tooling for software development
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, owning technical decisions end-to-end, and aligning solutions with product and operational goals
• Deeply mission-aligned—motivated to build technology that serves individuals facing complex needs such as homelessness, severe mental illness, and substance use disorder

Our Values

• Lead with integrity: We keep our commitments and take responsibility for our actions. We are dependable and choose authenticity over perfection.
• Embrace challenges: We leave our egos at the door and step forward into discomfort instead of back into safety. We help each other to learn and provide feedback using candor and kindness.
• Break through walls: We go the extra mile for our patients, partners and one