Founding Product Engineer

On-site

Requirements

Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts.
experience with React. Our entire front end is built in react. - Strong experience with Figma.
Experience working with large volumes of transaction data. You’ll be getting very familiar with it! -
Experience in Python and Django. Our core application backend and data pipeline services are built with Python and Django -
Experience using tools like PostHog and Sentry WHO YOU ARE You'll thrive here if: - You're a Dog.

We handle the entire lifecycle — calculation, registration, filing, remittance — at millisecond latency with zero downtime. - Backed by a16z and YC. $21M Series A, 30%+ month-over-month growth, customers include ElevenLabs, Replit, Deel, Runway, and Lovable. - Small team, global surface area.
San Francisco, five days in office. - The problem keeps compounding.Expanding into input tax, withholding, e-invoicing, tariffs — each multiplies the complexity.
They’ll be working directly with customers, our design and eng team as well as our CEO / Founder to bring Sphere’s product vision of making the world one market to life.

ABOUT SPHERE Every breakthrough in trade infrastructure has followed the same pattern: reduce a transaction cost, expand the market.
Compliance is one of the last and largest — and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up.
They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other.
Everyone owns a domain that would be a full team at a larger company.
Tens of millions of transactions today, billions ahead.
THE ROLE CX has an unusually high important in a product like Sphere.
Trust is of utmost importance when handling a company's payments and tax obligations.
As a result, every user experience, modal, button, export needs to be flawless (would you trust Stripe with your payments if it was full of bugs and inconsistencies?).
WHAT YOU'LL DO Within weeks: - Work / listen to many of our customers on what their main pain points are and prioritize lowest hanging fruit features that can help solve their problems - Collaborate extensively with design on bringing those features to life - Executing and shipping features, end-to-end, on a daily basis - Doing customer support where necessary to understand our customers and how they think as much as possible Within months: - Own Sphere's CX and make it unique - Own feature / product
In order to collaborate efficiently with design. - Customer obsession.