Software Engineer, AI Engineer

$22M revenue. Profitable. Bootstrapped. 16 years in market. 20 people doing what competitors need 200 for.

Every AI assistant is trained to close the deal - to be the realtor. We built the home inspector. Product.ai tells you what NOT to buy, and we're the only ones who can.

We are Product.ai - the company building the verification layer for AI commerce. You may know us as Demand.io
, the founder-led team behind Simply Codes - the leading AI-powered savings tool driving $1B+ in annual commerce. In early 2026, we complete our transformation and formally become Product.ai.

The product surfaces that millions of users touch every day - and the new experiences that will change how people make purchase decisions. We have a savings tool processing $1B+ in annual commerce, a consumer agent that tells you what NOT to buy across 75M+ products, and an API serving AI agents. Every one of these surfaces needs features shipped, experiments run, and performance improved.

We need engineers who think in user outcomes and ship complete features, not engineers who wait for tickets.

Perplexity summarizes the web - including the lies. ChatGPT is trained to be agreeable - it hedges. Google ranks by ads. We pre-verify claims through adversarial pressure testing and deliver the confident "No" that no other AI can. (Read the thesis)

We are seeking a Software Engineer to own and ship complete product features across our consumer and AI commerce surfaces. This is a role for builders who think in outcomes, not tickets - you will own features from database schema to deployed UI and measure your impact in what users experience, not what you committed to a sprint board.

Based in Los Angeles. Hybrid schedule with flexibility. For the right builder, we're open to remote.

• Full-Stack Feature Delivery: Own features end-to-end - from database schema to API handler to React component to polish. We do not split "frontend" and "backend." You ship complete features. A conversion problem might require touching a button, an API, and a database query. You touch all three.
• Product-Minded Engineering: You will not receive pixel-perfect specs. You will receive missions. When the team says "merchant landing page conversion is down 8% - figure out why and fix it," you dig into the analytics, identify the drop-off, design the solution, build it, and deploy it behind a feature flag. You ship the fix, not a requirements doc.
• The Velocity Loop: Prototype on localhost. Make it fast. Deploy to production behind a feature flag. Get user feedback. Iterate. Your job is to minimize the time between idea and learning. At a company that uses AI tools to accelerate every step of this loop, the cycle time is days, not sprints.
• Autonomous Quality Ownership: When you see something broken - a UI bug, a slow query, unclear copy - you fix it. You do not file a ticket for someone else. You have full autonomy over the product experience you ship.

We do not care about your pedigree; we care about your mechanics.

• You ship fast and think while shipping. You would rather deploy something imperfect today than something perfect never. You know that code in production teaches you more than code in review. But you also know the difference between "fast" and "reckless" - you write code that your future self can debug at 2am.
• You think like a product builder, not just a coder. You ask "will this actually solve the user's problem?" before you ask "what framework should I use?" You have opinions about what to build, not just how to build it. You push back when the spec is wrong, and you suggest alternatives when you see a better path.
• You have a high tolerance for ambiguity. When given a vague business goal instead of a detailed spec, you translate it into concrete engineering work. You make decisions, ship, and correct in flight. You do not stall when the requirements are incomplete.
• You use AI to write better code faster. AI-assisted development is your default workflow - Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or equivalent. You use AI for boilerplate generation, debugging, test writing, and code review. You are measurably…