Product Engineer

Product Engineer

You'll build the products developers reach for when they need to turn the messy, hostile web into clean data and actions an AI can use. This is hands-on product engineering at the core of what Firecrawl does: shipping features that thousands of developers hit every day, owning them from idea to production, and obsessing over the details that make an API a joy to build on. You'll ship real product from day one, not tickets in a backlog.

Salary Range: $210,000–$260,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living.)

Equity Range: Up to 0.05%

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 3+ years building and shipping developer-facing product

Visa: Must already be authorized to work in the US or our eligible remote-hire regions. We're not able to sponsor visas right now, though that may change down the line.

About Firecrawl

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved.

We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 147k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started.

We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount.

This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.

What You'll Do

Build and ship developer-facing product features from idea to production

Own the reliability and quality of what you ship against a web that constantly changes and fights back

Turn hard, ambiguous problems into clean APIs developers love to use

Work directly with the engineering team on the roadmap and the tradeoffs behind it

Dogfood the product, read the GitHub issues, and let real developer pain drive what you build

What We're Looking For

You've built and shipped developer-facing product that people actually used

You care about developer experience like a designer cares about pixels: latency, response format, docs, the whole feel of it

You're comfortable owning ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped features

You move fast and close the loop - you'd rather ship, measure, and iterate than perfect on paper

What We're NOT Looking For

Someone who needs a fully-specced ticket to start

A strong backend engineer who's indifferent to how the product feels to use

Someone who optimizes for process over shipping

A Note On Pace

We operate at an absurd level of urgency because the window for what we're building won't stay open forever. If that excites you, keep reading. If it doesn't, no hard feelings — but this role probably isn't for you.

Benefits & Perks

Available to all employees

Salary that makes sense — $210,000–$260,000/year, based on impact, not tenure

Own a piece — Up to 0.05% equity in what you're helping build

Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge

Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for all parents

Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human

Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally

Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls

Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new

Available to US-based full-time employees

Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works

Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs

Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind

Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch

401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you

Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit

Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too

Available to SF-based employees

SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy

E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us

Interview Process

Application Review — Send us your work and a quick note on why this excites you. Show us what you've shipped — products, features, APIs developers actually used. We care about what you've built, not where you went to school.

Intro Chat (~25 min) — A quick conversation to get to know each other before we go deep. We'll talk about what you've been working on, what drew you to Firecrawl, and what you're looking for in your next role. Time for your questions too.

Technical Chat (~45 min) — We'll dig into a real problem from our world — shipping a reliable feature against a web that fights back, or designing an API developers love — and talk through how you'd approach it. Come ready to think out loud; we care how you reason, not whether you memorized the answer.

Founder Chat (~25 min) — Culture, pace, ownership, and how you like to work. Time for your questions too.

Paid Work Trial (1-2 weeks) — Work with the team on a real, scoped piece of the product — paid at a contractor rate. It's the truest signal for both sides: you see what building at Firecrawl actually feels like, and we see how you ship. Remote-friendly, and we'll flex around your current commitments.

Decision — We move fast after the trial.

If you want to build the products that turn the chaos of the web into something developers and agents can actually use, you should join us.

👉 Apply now.