🪄 Staff Product Engineer

About the role

Partiful's mission is to cultivate friendships through social events.

We believe events are the most effective way to meet new people and make friends. Our product helps you throw incredible events, starting with memorable party pages that make it easy to plan & communicate with guests — download the app http://partiful.com/download to see how it works!

We're building new ways to streamline planning, connect meaningfully in the real world, and make connections between friends-of-friends. Our ultimate vision is to power everything you do in-person with your friends, eliminating the friction of bringing your most memorable experiences to life. You can read more about our mission in The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/31/partiful-gen-z-new-years-eve/, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/style/partiful-event-planning-parties.html, The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/evites-are-out-this-new-text-message-party-planner-is-in-46e8b64f, The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/party-invitation-website-partiful/672333/, Wirecutter https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/partiful-app-review/, and USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2024/08/04/partiful-app-party-planning/72619936007/?taid=66af5128983783000189ad12&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. Partiful was named Google’s Best App of 2024 https://blog.google/products/google-play/google-play-best-apps-games-2024/, a Finalist for Apple’s App Store Awards https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/11/apple-reveals-45-app-and-game-finalists-for-the-2024-app-store-awards/, and Apple’s App of the Day https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1771691398 (awarded 4x). In 2025, we were named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289589/partiful/, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies https://www.fastcompany.com/91270177/social-media-most-innovative-companies-2025-duolingo-bluesky-boston-celtics-pinterest-partiful-planoly-sesame-workshop-feeld-strava-yelp, and named to Inc. Magazine's Best in Business List https://www.inc.com/john-jannuzzi/how-partiful-became-the-life-of-gen-zs-irl-party/91263552.

Our company is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, and advised by the founders of some of the most successful consumer social products ever made.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced, thoughtful principal/staff engineer to help bring this vision to life. This is primarily an IC role with a strong mentorship component; if you're looking for a pure Engineering Manager role, this isn't the best fit. We're NY- and LA-based with a hybrid in-person model, in the office 3 days a week. Our stack is React (web app), React Native (mobile app), Node.js http://node.js/, and Typescript.

In this role, you'll:

- Work directly with the CTO

- Make key technical decisions across the stack

- Be responsible for crafting scalable architecture

- Ensure a high degree of code quality

- Implement engineering best practices

- Guide/mentor other engineers

- Lead and improve engineering processes

- Own development of end-to-end features and projects

You’re likely a good fit if you:

- Have 12+ years of full-time software engineering experience, with at least 3 recent years working in React

- Worked at both startups and larger companies, staying long enough to see the impact of your technical decisions

- Have strong product chops

- Are deeply committed to high-quality, sustainable, and scalable engineering

- Can elegantly structure and decomp complex features

- Are comfortable with ambiguity

- Generate quick yet thoughtful solutions when faced with constraints

- Put ego aside when making decisions

- Practice leading without authority

- Are passionate about growing and teaching others

What we offer:

- 401(k) with up to 6% matching

- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents (FSAs and HSA plans available)

- Free OneMedical membership, telehealth, and virtual mental health services

- Commuter benefits & contributions towards ClassPass and Citibike memberships

- Unlimited vacation (minimum 3 weeks required)

- Quarterly stipend to plan your own party and dogfood the product

- Quarterly travel benefit & semiannual team off-sites

- Get invited to exclusive parties 🎉

In your application, please include a note on what excites you about Partiful!

The anticipated annual salary for this position is $200k-$250k, plus a generous equity package. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible (other benefits listed above). The actual salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We’re proud to be a diverse team and actively work to bring new perspectives to the table.