Staff Product Engineer

Who We Are

At Good Pair Days, our mission is to make exceptional wine accessible and enjoyable for everyone, from beginners to enthusiasts. Through expertly curated selections, personalised recommendations, and innovative technology, we help customers discover wines that excite the senses and expand their wine world.

We believe wine should be approachable, fun, and full of stories. We strive to create an experience that is welcoming, engaging, and memorable—both online and in-store. With the launch of our first-ever physical store, we’re bringing our unique approach to wine retail into a new space, where customers can explore, taste, and learn in person.

Join us on this exciting journey as we help people find wines they’ll love and enjoy every day!

Staff Product Engineer

You’ll be part of the technical heartbeat of GPD: owning our customer‑facing wine‑matching engine, subscription platform and retail systems while laying the tracks for our next phase of AI‑native experiences (think conversational pairing, dynamic pricing, and in‑store magic).

Working directly with the Head of Engineering and a lean product team, you will:

• Contribute to the technical direction – architecture, technology choices, roadmap sequencing.
• Ship high‑impact features end‑to‑end – from React UI to Django API to infra code.
• Guard reliability & performance – 99.9 % uptime, page‑load < 2 s, and squeaky‑clean DX.
• Embed data & experimentation – dashboards, A/B tests, and “two‑minute SQL” to answer any why.
• Level‑up the team – mentor, and instil lightweight, high standards as we grow from 1 → 5+ engineers.

Who’s a good fit?

• Takes full ownership – accountable for uptime, code quality and delivery; jumps into any fire.
• Resourceful problem‑solver – thrives solo today, comfortable leading a small squad tomorrow.
• Commercial thinker – talks retention curves and gross margin as fluently as GraphQL resolvers.
• Product shaper – doesn’t just build what’s specced; shapes the solution by understanding the customer problem, exploring trade-offs, and simplifying complexity.
• Challenges & asks why – healthy debate with leadership; hunts for real bottlenecks.
• AI‑obsessed tinkerer – plays with every major model release and lives in AI‑native IDEs (Cursor, Codex, Orchestrator, Claude Code…).
• Full‑stack bias toward action – React/React Native, Python/Django, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS (or the conviction you can master them fast).
• Ops‑literate – IaC, CI/CD, observability; can chase a latency spike from CloudFront to EXPLAIN.
• Mentor & multiplier – drafts crisp guidelines, reviews for clarity, and grows those around you.

Why Join Us?

• Scale what’s already working – we’re profitable, loved by customers, and early in our growth curve.
• Own meaningful upside – up to A$250 k salary + attractive ESOP.
• Green‑field AI projects – build novel consumer wine experiences no one else is shipping.
• Joyful, adventurous culture – we ditch wine snobbery for inclusive, curiosity‑fuelled service every time.

Role Details

📍 Location: Remote, AU or NZ (+3 hrs AEST)

💼 Employment Type: Full-Time, permanent

🏁 Start Date: ASAP (we are flexible on the start date)

🏁 Salary: Up to $250 k AUD per year + equity.

👉 Apply now

Ready to craft software that helps thousands discover their next great bottle?

Send your CV + a short note (or quick Loom video) to engineering@goodpairdays.com and tell us:

1. A tech decision you owned end‑to‑end and the business result it drove.
2. The AI experiment you’d run first at Good Pair Days.