Senior Product Engineering Fellow
City of New York2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship public-facing applications and product components from concept through launch.
- Develop integrations with government data sources, modern APIs, flat-file feeds, open-data portals, and legacy systems.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, researchers, agency staff, policy advisors, and legal counsel on product decisions and requirements.
- Lead engineering practices involving generative coding tools, productionization, documentation, reliability, and responsible handoff to support teams.
- Coordinate hosting, performance testing, accessibility audits, and security reviews to meet city production standards.
- Write technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture notes and contribute reusable patterns, components, and infrastructure.
- Support code review, mentorship, onboarding, and engineering culture initiatives for the mission-driven team.
- Perform grant-related special projects and initiatives as assigned.
Requirements
- A baccalaureate degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field plus six years of satisfactory related experience; or a baccalaureate degree in another field plus ten years of satisfactory related experience; or equivalent education and/or experience.
- Experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture, and/or IT infrastructure systems is accepted under the stated Senior IT Architect requirements.
- Ability to work hands-on across product engineering and collaborate with technical, product, policy, legal, and agency stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a 24/7 operation, including possible weekend, night, or evening shifts.
Benefits
- Grant-funded 18-month fellowship ending July 2028.
- Work location is Brooklyn, NY.
- Opportunity to work on public-interest products with meaningful impact for New Yorkers.
- Day shift role, with possible weekend and night/evening work due to 24/7 operational needs.
- OTI offers benefits, though specific benefits are not detailed in the posting.
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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.