Playground is looking for a Product Engineer that will work closely with our product design team to bring shapeable, intelligent products to market.

Your work at Playground

• Prototype, build and test our apps.

• Work with a flexible modern tech stack (React, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind).

• Collaborate and communicate clearly with team members on scaling challenges and architecting new features.

• Contribute to internal documentation and knowledge sharing.

• Help shape and grow the engineering culture.

• Help find, onboard and mentor new talent.

Things you might work on

• WorkLens - an intelligent photo app for work. Capture, find, and collaborate through the photos you take at work, building a visual knowledge-base.

• FieldDay - a machine learning data collection platform and API that enables engineering teams to build truly shapeable products at scale with the help of users.

• Projects that identify and solve problems through machine learning and computer vision across a variety of industries with clients as well as products we develop internally.

• A range of digital platforms such as mobile, web and physical/connected devices.

• Work across all parts of the design process from qualitative/quantitative user research, through concept development, prototyping, interaction design, collaboration with development teams, and design stewardship across platforms.

Requirements

• You have experience building data-rich web apps.

• You care about high quality work; think high frame rate, thoughtful interaction design, delightful experiences.

• You are comfortable building proof-of-concept prototypes to evaluate design directions and iterate quickly.

• You can communicate nuanced technical work clearly.

• You are comfortable writing and maintaining technical documentation as well as onboarding and mentoring co-workers.

Can be an advantage if

• You are familiar or have experience with TypeScript.

• You are familiar or have experience with GraphQL.

• You are familiar with back end systems and relational databases.

• You have experience maintaining design component systems.

• You have experience using design tools like Figma or Sketch or prototyping ones like Framer or Origami.