Product Engineer

Shipd is our gamified data collection platform that transforms boring annotation into an addictive, competitive experience. 16,000+ contributors have signed up organically because "nerds want to get paid to code." With quest-based campaigns, bounty rewards, streaks, and community features, Shipd aims to attracts the best talent for complex data production. Now we're looking for a Product Engineer to help us scale the platform into the "Duolingo for coding bounties" or "Kaggle but paid" What You'll Do Build the Quest Builder system: Create reusable components, UI generators, and multi-step pipelines that shrink quest setup from a week to a day.

Own developer experience tooling:

Extend our VS Code fork, browser extension (Moody Blues), and trace viewer to capture long-form coding workflows with full observability.

Scale the data flywheel:

Design features that make the platform engaging enough to bring friends, raise quality through competition, and support any data format without starting from scratch.

Engineer quality at scale:

Improve our three-tier eval system (automation, judge models, human review), build real-time feedback, and empower top contributors to become reviewers.

Ship addictive experiences:

Blend game mechanics, developer tools, and marketplace dynamics into products that make hours-long data tasks feel rewarding. You'll Succeed Here If You Have Strong product engineering experience —you can own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and data. A knack for building systems that scale —infrastructure, pipelines, and abstractions that work across many use cases. Experience with developer tools (e.g., IDEs, extensions, SDKs, CLIs) or platforms with heavy telemetry/observability. Curiosity about game design, marketplaces, or community products —how to keep people motivated and engaged. Excellent communication and product sense—you can frame trade-offs clearly and design with both users and internal teams in mind. Comfort with ambiguity—happy to prototype, iterate fast, and pivot based on feedback. Characteristics We're Looking For Builder's mindset: scrappy, resourceful, motivated by hard problems. Excited by human-AI collaboration and how product design shapes outcomes.

Pride in craft:

you care about both quality and speed. Desire to help define the "experience foundations" for frontier data collection. Nice to Have Experience in AI/ML, crowdsourcing platforms, or online education/gamification. Familiarity with marketplace dynamics or contributor ecosystems. Background in scaling evaluation or quality systems for complex work.