Senior Product Engineering Fellow
City of New York7 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship applications from concept through public launch, owning product components end to end across frontend, backend, mobile, or data pipelines.
- Rapidly prototype, iterate on MVPs, run pilots, and make pragmatic tradeoffs among scope, quality, and timing.
- Build integrations with government data sources, including modern APIs, flat-file feeds, open-data portals, and legacy systems.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, user researchers, policy teams, legal counsel, agency staff, and other city employees on product decisions and prioritization.
- Lead and improve engineering practices involving generative coding tools, productionization, documentation, reliability, and product handoff.
- Coordinate hosting, performance testing, accessibility audits, and security reviews to meet city production standards.
- Translate eligibility rules, regulations, and policy requirements into clear and accurate product logic.
- Write technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture notes, and contribute reusable patterns, components, and infrastructure.
- Support engineering culture through code review, mentorship, onboarding, and grant-related special projects.
Requirements
- A baccalaureate degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field plus six years of satisfactory related experience; alternatively, a baccalaureate degree plus ten years of related experience, or equivalent education and/or experience.
- Experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture, and/or IT infrastructure systems is required for the stated civil-service title.
- Hands-on product engineering experience across relevant frontend, backend, mobile, or data-pipeline components is required.
- Ability to collaborate with technical, product, design, policy, legal, and government agency stakeholders is required.
Benefits
- Grant-funded 18-month fellowship ending July 2028.
- Opportunity to work on high-impact public-facing products for New Yorkers with the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation.
- Brooklyn, NY work location; day shift, with possible nights, evenings, and weekends due to 24/7 operational needs.
- The posting states that OTI offers great benefits.
Categories
Full StackProduct Engineering
About City of New York
The City of New York is the municipal government for the five boroughs, delivering public services such as housing, social assistance, public safety, and digital tools for residents and businesses. It is publicly funded and operates agencies including the Department of Social Services (HRA and DHS) and the New York City Housing Authority. Headquartered in New York, NY, it builds and maintains large-scale systems supporting benefits eligibility, case management, housing, and civic services.