Product Engineer

About the Role

This isn't a traditional product management role, and it isn't a traditional software engineering role.

You'll spend your time talking to customers, understanding their problems, designing solutions, writing production code, and shipping features. One week you might build a new authentication flow, the next week you're redesigning an onboarding experience, integrating with a new provider, or launching an entirely new product.

If you enjoy owning a problem end-to-end-from idea to production-you'll thrive here.

Responsibilities

• Build new product features from concept to production.
• Work directly with customers to understand pain points and validate solutions.
• Ship quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Prototype new ideas and iterate based on user feedback.
• Own major product areas and continuously improve them over time.
• Design backend APIs and services using Python and FastAPI.
• Build intuitive developer experiences across our API, dashboard, and CLI.
• Collaborate directly with the founders on product direction and technical decisions.
• Help define and build LiteLLM's second major product.

What We're Looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building production software, preferably with Python.
• Comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend, frontend, infrastructure, APIs).
• Strong product intuition and curiosity about how customers use software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• High ownership-you naturally identify problems and solve them without waiting to be asked.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
• Excited by shipping quickly and learning from real users.

Bonus Points

• Experience at an early-stage startup.
• Experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
• Open source contributions.
• You've built and launched your own product.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLMs, or developer platforms.