Product Engineer (Next.js / Node) - AI Encouraged

Remote, US-Based Only. We’re hiring a pragmatic Full-Stack Product Engineer to own vertical slices of customer products across React/Next.js and Node.js/Fastify, with Prisma and PostgreSQL. A key part of this role is intentional prototyping, paired with close collaboration with Product / Project Managers. We build custom software for real operational environments. That means we often start with fast, focused prototypes to validate workflows, reduce risk, and learn quickly alongside customers and our Product/Project partners. Once the business intent and requirements solidify, we harden it into production-grade software. We are also intentionally leaning into AI as a force multiplier. You’ll use AI agents to accelerate specification, implementation, and testing — not as a shortcut, but as leverage to move faster while maintaining quality. You’ll move fluidly between: - Rapid experimentation - Clear scoping and refinement with Product/Project Managers - Production-quality implementation This is not throwaway prototyping. It’s structured learning that leads to durable systems. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Own vertical feature slices end-to-end across React/Next.js (TypeScript), Node.js/Fastify APIs, and Postgres via Prisma, partnering closely with Product/Project Managers from concept through delivery - Rapidly prototype workflows and UI flows in collaboration with Product/Project Managers to validate direction with customers - Convert validated prototypes into hardened, production-ready features - Establish and expand automated testing (API + UI) and wire it into CI - Work closely with Product/Project Managers to translate messy user workflows into well-scoped tickets with crisp acceptance criteria - Perform click testing to map real user journeys and identify gaps - Triage, reproduce, fix, and close production issues with clear updates - Design migrations, optimize queries, and steward the data model - Reduce toil via automation (ETL, recurring jobs, tooling improvements) - Use AI agents to accelerate specs, code generation, and testing — with judgment WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: - Experience building full-stack JS/TS products - Solid API design (auth, pagination, error handling, rate limiting) - Strong React/Next.js and Node experience - Comfortable with TypeScript, Fastify, Prisma, Postgres - Experience with automated testing (API + UI) and CI/CD - Comfortable owning tickets and features end-to-end while maintaining tight collaboration with Product/Project Managers - Clear, concise communicator You should enjoy: - Turning ambiguity into clarity - Moving fast early, then tightening things up - Shipping vertical slices that actually work - Improving systems while working inside them - Using AI as leverage — not a crutch PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: - Azure (App Service, Functions, container apps) - Docker basics - ETL pipelines / data migrations - Supporting production systems -Speaking directly with customers when needed - Leapwork, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent - AI-powered features (RAG, embeddings, evaluation loops) - Observability (metrics, logs, traces) WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT: You won’t just be handed tickets. You will: - Prototype deliberately - Validate with customers - Productionize what works - Own meaningful slices of real products We’re building custom systems in an AI-accelerated world. The right person will be excited by both the speed of experimentation and the responsibility of making things solid. WHO WE ARE: Valorian builds intelligent systems for industrial operations by integrating data, systems, and AI—designed around how work actually gets done in the field. We combine deep industry business-process expertise with modern technology to deliver clarity across the full execution lifecycle: planned work, its readiness for safe execution, real-time performance in the field, outcomes at completion, and variance between plan and execution so teams can continuously learn and improve. CORE VALUES: - Trustworthy: Committed to building long-term trust by showing up with an authentic high-level of care and taking ownership of outcomes, behaviors, and work product. - Resourceful: Leverages curiosity, ingenuity, creativity, and innovation to accomplish goals; thinks long term, and is focused on sustainable results. - Passionate: Brings infectious energy, passion, and care for what we do and who we work with. - Balanced: Strives for harmony in faith, family, health, fun, and energy. - Connected: Committed to meaningful communication and healthy conflict through listening, transparency, and the courage to receive and give feedback. INTERESTED? If you’re excited about building real products, growing your skills, and helping define what modern development looks like in practice, we’d love to talk. Work is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and pre-engagement drug screening, in accordance with applicable law.