Staff Product Engineer (Florianópolis)
Role Summary
Join LawnStarter as a Staff Product Engineer in a remote role. Lead technical initiatives and collaborate with teams to shape and execute innovative solutions.
About the Organisation
LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $100M in annual bookings. We're expanding beyond lawn care to become the one-stop shop for all home services — operating across three brands (LawnStarter, Lawn Love, Home Gnome) on a single shared platform.
We build in small, focused initiative teams: a Product Engineer working alongside a PM and a designer, supported by an Engineering Manager who helps you grow. You'll also work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering peers across initiatives in a shared codebase. The whole team owns whether the work moves its metric.
AI coding agents are a force multiplier here — they give a small, senior team the leverage to ship more, faster, and at a higher bar for quality. We hire engineers who are wired for ownership and energized by shipping to a real marketplace with customers and pros on both sides.
Minimum Requirements
Good to Know
Tech You'll Touch
You don't need every box checked. You need deep skill in at least one of our stacks plus credible production experience with AI coding agents.
- AI-native. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent are how you ship today — daily, on production work. You have real opinions about prompts, evals, agent loops, and review workflows, and you know when to let the agent run versus write it yourself.
- Operating at a lead level. Whatever your current title, you've been the person making the call, shipping the hard thing, and standing behind whether it worked.
- Outcome-driven. You measure your week in "did the metric move" and "did the experience get better." You read the post-launch dashboard and own the answer.
- A strong horizontal partner. You hold your own with a strong PM and designer, and you collaborate well with engineering peers in a shared codebase. You bring engineering judgment to product calls and product judgment to engineering calls.
- Decisive and documented. You make architecture, data-model, and rollout calls, write them down, get fast input, and move.
- A force multiplier. Your impact compounds beyond your own initiative because you leave reusable artifacts behind — agent workflows, evals, runbooks, post-launch reviews.
- Customer- and pro-minded. This is a real marketplace with real people on both sides, and you care about the outcomes for both.
- An individual-contributor role with room to grow. People management sits with the EM — but the path into management is an open door for those who want it.
- A product-engineering role, end-to-end. You ship features that move metrics; platform and architecture work happen inside the initiative when the outcome needs them.
- Hands-on, with a high quality bar. Agents handle much of the implementation; you bring the judgment, design, safety, and accountability. The bar is high.
- Shipping to a live marketplace. With $100M+ in bookings, customers and pros use what you ship within the same week.
- AI agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, internal agent stack, MCP servers, evals tooling
- Backend — PHP/Laravel
- Frontend — TypeScript/React/React Native (customer & pro apps, web and mobile)
- Data — Redshift, dbt, Segment, Airflow
- Infra — AWS, Datadog, Sentry, GitHub Actions
- Documentation & process — Brain (Claude Code skills + docs repo), Confluence, Jira
Working Conditions
- Competitive salary of USD $80,000–$100,000 annual base
- Work from anywhere
- High ownership and autonomy
- Fast-moving team that loves to build, learn, and grow
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible candidates are expected to have a deep technical background and experience in product engineering.
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