Engagement
10-20 hours/week retainer
Engineering
Fractional Product Engineer
Keep customer delivery moving by fixing production, QA, dashboard, billing, report, and admin blockers.
RemoteFractional retainerEngagement: 10-20 hours/week retainer
Role mission
Why this role matters now
This role keeps paid delivery reliable without adding a full-time engineering seat before the operating model is proven. The work is practical: unblock customers, harden the product, and keep the founder out of avoidable firefighting.
Equity
Not standard
Benefits
Contract
Operating loop
A practical day in the role
Step 01
Review current delivery blockers and production issues
Step 02
Patch a dashboard, report, monitoring, billing, or admin bug that affects customer work
Step 03
Run targeted checks and document the verification result
Step 04
Tighten one reliability, observability, or QA gap
Step 05
Flag any roadmap request that does not directly improve delivery, trust, payment, or reliability
What you'll do
- Fix production issues that block customer delivery across dashboard, reports, monitoring, billing, auth, and admin surfaces
- Maintain the test lanes that protect paid delivery, including Jest, Playwright, enterprise screenshot readiness, and targeted smoke checks
- Improve reliability around Stripe, email, Prisma, report export, monitoring, and enterprise portal workflows
- Harden observability, deployment, and incident response paths without expanding the roadmap unnecessarily
- Help the founder decide which product fixes materially improve delivery, evidence quality, payment, or customer trust
Requirements
- Strong Next.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, and Prisma experience
- Comfort debugging production web apps with payments, auth, email, and background workflows
- Ability to work from a delivery-risk queue instead of a speculative feature roadmap
- Good testing judgment across unit, integration, Playwright, and smoke coverage
- Clear async communication and availability for urgent customer-delivery blockers
Nice to have
- Experience with Vercel, AWS, Stripe, NextAuth, OpenTelemetry, or queue-backed workflows
- Experience maintaining admin dashboards or analyst operations tools
- Security-conscious development habits for sensitive customer data
- Ability to document important changes succinctly
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Apply with a concrete operating signal.
The strongest application explains how you would improve delivery quality, product reliability, security discipline, or founder-led sales follow-up in this exact lean team model.