Senior Product Engineer
City of New York1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship resident-facing applications from concept through launch.
- Own product components end-to-end or contribute to frontend, backend, mobile, and data pipeline work as needed.
- Prototype rapidly, iterate on MVPs, support pilots, and make pragmatic scope, quality, and timing tradeoffs.
- Build integrations with government APIs, flat-file feeds, open data portals, and legacy systems.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, researchers, policy teams, legal counsel, agency staff, and other city employees.
- Coordinate hosting, performance testing, accessibility audits, and security reviews.
- Translate eligibility rules and regulations into clear, accurate product logic.
- Create technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture notes for ongoing maintenance.
- Develop reusable patterns, components, and infrastructure and contribute to code review, mentorship, onboarding, and engineering culture.
Requirements
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field plus six years of satisfactory full-time 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 specified for the associated Senior IT Architect civil service title.
- Ability to work hands-on across product development and collaborate with technical, product, policy, design, and legal stakeholders.
- Ability to work with government data sources, legacy systems, production standards, documentation, and reliability requirements.
Benefits
- Great benefits are offered.
- Meaningful opportunity to build public-facing technology serving millions of New Yorkers.
- Work location is Brooklyn, NY.
- The regular schedule is listed as day shift, but the role may require various shifts, including weekends and nights/evenings, due to 24/7 operational duties.
Categories
Product 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.