New Zealand or Australia | Remote or from our Wellington HQ 🌍

We're looking for a Full Stack Product Engineer to join our team. 🚀

At Optimal, we build powerful research tools that help teams make data-driven decisions. Trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands, we’re passionate about user experience and the transformative power of human insight.

The role

We’re looking for a Full Stack Product Engineer who’s excited to build, ship, and improve product experiences in a fast-moving environment.

You’ll join a small, collaborative team across Product, Engineering, and Design where you won’t just write code - you’ll be actively involved in shaping the direction of our products and understanding our customers so we can create the best possible product experience.

We’re especially interested in engineers who are comfortable moving quickly, iterating based on feedback, and using AI to build better software, faster. This is a role for people who want real ownership in their work, enjoy experimenting, and looking to make an impact.

What you’ll do:

Build and ship real product experiences: Design and deliver features that improve how people do user research.
Use AI in your workflow: Leverage AI as a core part of your development workflow to build and ship software more efficiently
Work closely with Product & Design: Collaborate in a remote-first team to understand user problems and shape solutions
Move things forward: Own your work end-to-end, help the team maintain momentum by focusing on outcomes over perfection
Contribute to a strong Engineering culture: Share knowledge, learn from others, grow your engineering and product skills

What we're looking for:

Entrepreneurial: You like taking ownership, figuring things out with imperfect information, and moving ideas from concept to reality without needing everything defined upfront
Product-focused: You don't just build features, you care about why they matter. You think about the bigger picture and work closely with product managers and designers to shape solutions for our customers
Experience with our stack (or similar): React, Ruby on Rails, AWS, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD technologies
Customer-focused: You care about building things that genuinely improve the user experience
Collaborative and proactive: You communicate and collaborative well in a remote-first environment and enjoy working as part of a team
Problem-solver: You can break down problems, work through ambiguity, and deliver practical solutions

What’s in it for you:

Competitive salary + Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) to help you benefit from the long-term success of the company
Annual wellbeing allowance and support
Generous annual learning and development support
Home office set-up
An additional day off on your birthday
Opportunities for professional growth and development
Enhanced parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
The chance to have an impact and be part of a high performing team
Flexible and remote-first working (our HQ is based in Wellington, NZ, but this role can be based anywhere in New Zealand or Australia)

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. We’ll be interviewing as applications come through.