[Remote] Mid/Sr. Product Engineer, Intelligence

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Help Scout builds software for relationship businesses and is seeking a Mid/Sr. Product Engineer for their Intelligence team. The role involves building cross-platform experiences, focusing on frontend development while also operating as a full-stack engineer, and requires close collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.


Responsibilities

  • Ship customer facing features across the full stack, with a focus on smooth user experiences. You’ll design and build intelligence features from zero-to-one from loosely defined specs, collaborating closely with your product, design, and engineering teammates. You should be comfortable making calls, evaluating outcomes, and iterating on your work to make the best experience for customers
  • Sweat the front-end craft. You care about responsiveness, streaming/loading states, accessibility, and the small details that make an assistive feature feel reliable rather than gimmicky
  • Stay close to customers. Join customer calls when more context is needed to design the right solution, participate in a support escalation rotation, and watch session recordings on the features you own. Bring that signal back into the work
  • Own outcomes, not just output. Before a project starts, you and a PM agree on a specific outcome metric the work is trying to move. You instrument it, and after it ships you're watching the dashboard and talking to customers to ensure its impact
  • Co-author the solution. PMs own strategy and sequencing; you bring the judgment and craft for how solutions actually get built. You'll often shape the product thinking too. The best work happens when engineers, designers, and PMs support each other
  • Own production readiness from the start. Automation, reliability, monitoring, alerting, and logging are all part of how you ship. The work continues after merge
  • Use AI tools every day as part of your craft. We expect fluency with Cursor, Claude Code, or similar. If you saw a way to make the team's AI workflow better tomorrow, you'd say so
  • Help us hire. From time to time, partner with our Talent team to interview future teammates. This is one of the highest-leverage things any engineer here does

Skills

  • Substantial JavaScript/TypeScript and React experience
  • Strong full-stack capabilities
  • Ability to ship end-to-end without waiting for someone to own the other half
  • High bar for AI quality, including evaluation, verification, and guardrails
  • Genuine fluency with AI coding tools
  • Customer-fluent with a focus on seeking out customer signal
  • Ownership of outcomes and ability to measure work effectiveness
  • Full development lifecycle ownership including automation, reliability, resilience, monitoring, alerting, and logging
  • Clear communication skills in writing and conversation
  • Experience making LLM features production-grade: latency/cost tuning, fallbacks and circuit breakers across providers, moderation/safety, and handling sensitive data responsibly
  • Design sensibility and comfort partnering closely with designers
  • Experience in customer support, productivity, or other tools where trust and reliability are the product

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and an internal, transparent salary formula based on market data
  • Flexible time off – you choose the holidays and vacations that make sense for you
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoption and foster care
  • A home office stipend to help you get set up and productive
  • A co-working stipend up to $300 a month if you choose to work out of your house
  • A yearly professional development stipend of $1,800 to help you grow in your craft
  • If you’re in the U.S. or Canada, we offer top tier health insurance for you and your dependents.

Company Overview

  • Help Scout develops help desk software for business. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is

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