Role at a glance
What: As a Senior Product Engineer, you’ll help our customers run better user research and bring the voice of the user into every product decision.
Impact: Your work will directly shape how modern product, design, and research teams connect with their users and scale high‑quality research.
Team: You’ll join our Engineering team and partner closely with Product, Design, Research, and Go‑To‑Market partners.
Work style: Remote‑first within the United States, with regular async collaboration and optional in‑person team onsites.
About Rally UXR
Rally is the User Research CRM that helps product, design, and research teams talk to their users quickly, safely, and at scale. Our platform automates the unglamorous parts of research—participant recruitment, outreach, screening, scheduling, consent, and incentives—so teams can spend more time learning from customers and less time wrestling with manual workflows.
We're now building Rally's next chapter: an AI-native platform that handles the full research lifecycle, end to end.
Trusted by teams at Google, Adobe, Figma, GitLab, Webflow, and others. Backed by Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, and Canapi Ventures.
About the team
Our Engineering team is a highly collaborative, user‑obsessed group focused on making research smoother for both our customers and their participants.
We work closely with UX Researchers, Research Ops leaders, designers, and product managers at some of the world’s most user‑centric companies.
We use Rally to build Rally - talking to our own users frequently, running studies on our platform, and feeding insights straight into the roadmap.
We favor small, empowered teams, high ownership, and a tight feedback loop between customers, product, and engineering.
The opportunity
Rally is in the middle of a massive shift in how companies run user research: from ad‑hoc, one‑off projects to continuous learning that informs every product decision. In this role, you’ll help define what that future looks like - for Rally as a product and for the teams who rely on us to run research at scale. You’ll join at a stage where we have a strong product‑market fit, a fast‑growing customer base, and plenty of hard, interesting problems left to solve.
As a Senior Product Engineer, you’re expected to lead entire features end-to-end, collaborate closely with design to shape projects or initiatives, and deliver reliable and scalable systems.
Rally is fully built with Typescript to make it easy for engineers to work quickly across the stack. While we don’t expect you to have a background in all the tools we use, we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and an ability to adopt new technology quickly.
What you’ll do
Build and own zero to one features in the product
Scale existing features from MVPs to an enterprise grade product
Lead collaboration with cross functional partners like design, marketing, sales, cs and the co-founders
Work across the backend stack (Node, GraphQL, Prisma) and contribute to AI agent and MCP tool development to turn concepts into working product
Ensure the product maintains a high bar for security, privacy, reliability, performance, and quality
Design and build backend services, agents, and MCP tools that power Rally's AI-native platform
Experience building AI agents, MCP tools, or backend services in an AI-native environment is a strong plus
What you’ll bring
Skilled in architecting and sustaining complex, production-grade web applications.
Strong backend product engineering skills; front-end experience is a plus but not required.
Strong command of JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web development practices.
Demonstrated ability to lead major initiatives or mentor and direct engineering teams.
Experience collaborating with PMs and Designers to make key product decisions
We move fast, balance shortcuts with depth, and stay energized by talking to users. If you’re a user-driven, scrappy builder who cares deeply about crafting great products and isn’t afraid to dive into unfamiliar parts of the codebase to get things done, you’ll love working with us! You’ll thrive in an autonomous, communicative and ego-less environment, and bring strong-but-flexible opinions—and your authentic self—to the team every day.
If you’re excited about Rally and this role but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still encourage you to apply! We’re interested in what you can do, not just what you’ve done.
How we work
Rally is a remote‑first company with teammates across the US and Canada. We default to async communication, use clear written documentation to keep everyone in the loop, and reserve meetings for collaboration, decision‑making, and relationship building.
Remote‑first: Work from anywhere in the US, with core collaboration hours that overlap across US time zones.
In‑person connection: We bring people together for periodic team or company on-sites to build relationships, do deep‑dive strategy work, and celebrate wins.
High ownership: You’ll have real responsibility from day one and a lot of trust to figure out the best way to get to outcomes.
Customer‑driven: We talk to users constantly and use those insights to drive decisions across Product, Design, Engineering, and Go‑To‑Market.
AI‑native: We're building an AI‑native product and operating like one internally. We expect everyone at Rally to be actively experimenting with AI tools, challenging how they work, and finding ways to move faster.
Compensation & benefits
Base salary range (US): $180K – $210K USD per year.
This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires in this role across the United States. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job‑related skills, experience, and location.
Additional compensation: This role is eligible for variable compensation (such as an annual bonus and/or equity awards) in accordance with Rally’s applicable plans. Any such compensation is not guaranteed and is determined at Rally’s discretion under the terms of those plans.
Benefits for US‑based full‑time employees currently include:
Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
Flexible / unlimited PTO policy
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Parental Leave
401(k) retirement plan
Home office set‑up support
Monthly remote work stipend
Quarterly in‑person team or company gatherings
Benefits may vary based on role, level, and location, and are subject to change as Rally grows.
Our Tech Stack
Our hiring process
While the exact steps can vary by role, here’s what you can generally expect:
Initial conversation: A call with our recruiting team to learn more about your background and share more about Rally.
Hiring manager interview: A deeper conversation about the role, your experience, and what success looks like in the first 6–12 months with our Co-Founder & CTO Alec.
Technical coding challenge: problem solving exercise with two different engineers. Our coding exercises will be based on challenging real world product problems rather than leetcode like questions. You'll be expected to use Javascript/Typescript to work across both the frontend and backend (API and DB level).
Team and cross functional conversations: Time with leadership and key partners to answer your remaining questions.
We’ll share details at each stage so you know what’s coming and how to prepare!
Rally strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity across our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market data for our size, stage, and industry, and may adjust over time as the market evolves.
Rally is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
We’re committed to providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities throughout the application and interview process. If you need support or an adjustment at any point, please let us know how we can help.
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work for this role. It is not a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Employment with Rally is “at will,” which means either you or Rally may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without notice, and for any lawful reason or no reason at all.