Staff Product Engineer

🏀 What is Bounce

Bounce is a global luggage storage marketplace transforming the way people travel and explore. With over 20,000+ trusted partners in 100+ countries, Bounce connects travelers with local businesses offering secure, on-demand storage solutions - letting travelers experience cities freely, without being weighed down by their things. We have over 2 million active customers relying on Bounce to simplify their journeys, offering them the flexibility to focus on what matters most, the freedom to explore.

To achieve this, Bounce is a fast-paced and scrappy team. We believe that experimentation fuels innovation, so we move quickly, testing new ideas and adapting in real time. If you’re ready to make an impact in a high-energy, close-knit, and collaborative environment - Bounce is the place where you can move fast, think big, and shape the future of travel. Join us as we make the world a lighter, more accessible place! Bounce has been named the Inc5000’s fastest-growing travel company in the USA in 2024 and is proudly backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, and Sapphire. (Learn more about Bounce's Series B HERE and also learn about our Japan Expansion HERE)

🧑‍💻 What is this role?

Bounce is seeking a Staff Product Engineer to join our Lisbon office. This role will play a pivotal part in crafting new products atop our platform and expanding the efficacy of the Bounce marketplace.

As a Staff Product Engineer, you will take ownership of real-world customer problems, crafting intelligent and efficient solutions across both backend and frontend. You will have the opportunity to own projects in various areas, such as our consumer apps, growth engines, and partner tools.

We are looking for a generalist who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys owning a feature from concept to completion, contributing across the entire technology stack.

Our ultimate goal is to build a large-scale, shared technology platform that supports various products capable of rapid iteration and exploration.

🛠️ How product gets built at Bounce

At Bounce, we focus on serving our customers and partners rather than solely on technological innovation.

We work in fast-paced 1-week cycles. Projects are usually scoped down to fit into one or two cycles. Projects are led by individuals, but are a shared effort across the entire team. There will always be aspects of any project that will require collaboration, feedback, and guidance—we expect you to ask for help.

An ideal candidate is excited by all aspects of this software-building process, not just writing code. We’re a small team that thrives off of individuals who can take features from an idea to live on production. This is not a role where issues will be assigned to you and you churn through them.

👷🏾‍♀️ Where you come in

• Collaborate with global teams to support new product innovations and business initiatives, continuously exploring new ventures from both an engineering and product standpoint.

• Write high-quality code for our mobile and web applications.

• Assume strong ownership of products and services, and continuously improve and maintain existing code and architecture.

• Work in a fast-paced environment and shoulder the responsibility and commitment of the production environment.

• Work with Elixir, React Native, Expo, React, NextJS, and Typescript, and introduce other technologies when beneficial.

• Bring a passion for staying on top of industry trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and participating in internal and external technology communities.

✅ Your profile

• 6+ years of relevant experience developing and shipping code for production systems.

• Effectively integrates AI tools into daily operations to enhance productivity, while staying current with advancements in AI in software development practices.

• Generalist that strives for velocity and loves owning a feature from start to finish by contributing across the stack.

• Proficient coding skills in one or more of the following - Javascript, Typescript, Elixir, or Ruby.

• Experience with frontend frameworks and technologies, including but not limited to React, React Native, Javascript, CSS, etc.

• Proven experience in building maintainable and testable code bases, including API design and unit/integration testing techniques.

• Commitment to creating an exceptional end-user experience, with attention to the smallest details that can elevate their interaction with our platform.

• Current knowledge of relevant technologies and an ability to implement them effectively.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines.

• You're confident in leveraging AI tooling to elevate your productivity.