[Hiring] Product Engineer @CentralApp

Role Description

Websites are crucial for businesses—helping them get found and chosen online. Yet for many small businesses, websites become a burden. They launch with high hopes, spending countless hours on every little detail, aiming for perfection. But soon after launch, the website sits untouched, slowly becoming outdated, broken, and buried by search engines.

To address this issue, CentralApp (soon rebranding to stride-site.com ) is developing an innovative method for website creation. This new approach integrates numerous pre-designed business modules alongside a branding engine that offers millions of possibilities. Our solution is currently used by thousands of businesses across Europe, mostly in France, Belgium, Italy & Spain.

In addition to our website product, we offer a suite of tools designed to enhance your impact:

• Integration Marketplace
• Advanced Website Forms
• Client inbox & clients list
• Local SEO with Listing Management
• Instagram Wall
• Review Wall

As a Product Engineer, you will:

• Turn ambiguous product problems into clear user flows, product behavior, edge cases, and success criteria.
• Build and maintain scalable, modular, high-performance frontend code.
• Review backend and frontend implementation independently across UX, code quality, performance, accessibility, maintainability, and product correctness.
• Define API contracts and backend expectations clearly.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on architecture, data models, permissions, error handling, observability, and performance.
• Use AI tools to accelerate prototyping, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, and technical exploration.
• Critically review AI-generated output and stay accountable for correctness, maintainability, and product quality.
• Balance speed, simplicity, performance, maintainability, and user experience.
• Keep the end user, business impact, SEO, accessibility, and product quality in mind.

Qualifications

• Strong enough in frontend to review React code independently.
• Ability to reason about APIs, data models, permissions, backend constraints, and edge cases.
• Use AI to move faster, while tracing logic, adapting output to the codebase, and verifying results before review.

Requirements

• Ability to operate like a one-person product strike team when needed.
• Willingness to own outcomes end to end: clarify the problem, define product behavior, implement frontend, coordinate backend work, and ship.

Benefits

• Remote-first role, with flexibility in how and where you work.
• High ownership: real influence over product direction, technical decisions, and the evolution of the stack.
• Flexible working setup, focused on output, autonomy, and impact rather than rigid process.
• Opportunity to work across product, design, frontend, backend architecture, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Small, experienced team where strong contributors can move fast and have visible impact.