Staff Software Engineer, Product

LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $150M 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.

You're the engineering anchor of an initiative — working as part of a tight team with your PM and designer, and alongside engineering peers on adjacent initiatives. You have a hand in the full lifecycle: shaping the problem, deciding the technical approach, directing AI agents to implement much of the code, shipping to production, and — with your team — owning the outcome.

You're measured by impact, not by lines of code merged. When an agent can ship something safely, your job is to make sure it's done right and the metric moves. When the work touches a sensitive area, you have the guardrails to prove the change does exactly what it should, with no side effects: strong tests, evals, staged rollouts, and review gates.

• You ship end-to-end. From problem-framing through production to the post-launch metric review — you see the whole arc and own the result with your team.
• You work as a true product partner. You sit at the table with PM and design, bringing engineering judgment to product calls and product sense to engineering calls.
• You get real autonomy — with the right checkpoints. You make most technical calls yourself, with architect review on significant architectural decisions and fast input from peers.
• You operate at a staff bar. You're trusted to make the call, ship the hard thing, and stand behind the outcome.

• The technical approach — architecture, data model, integration choices, rollout plan, observability, and rollback strategy for your initiative. You make most calls yourself and bring significant architectural decisions to architect review; you document them, and revisit if the data says you were wrong.
• Implementation quality — the prompts, guardrails, evals, tests, and review loop that let agents ship safe, correct, production-ready code. Most lines will be agent-authored, and you're accountable for them — held to the same standard as the rest of the team working in a shared codebase.
• Cross-functional partnership — daily working contact with your PM (scope, tradeoffs) and designer (UX decisions, in-tool prototyping), regular collaboration with engineering peers, and weekly check-ins with your EM.
• The initiative outcome — the metric the initiative was set up to move. With your PM, you present results 2–4 weeks post-launch and share the "did it work" answer.
• A high bar for what ships — production correctness, security, performance, observability, and the experience for customers and pros. Agents accelerate you; they don't lower the bar.

• 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've built a workflow where agents write all of the code while you steer, review, and verify.
• 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 $150M+ 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

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.