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# Full Stack Product Engineer at santehq.com

- **Company:** santehq.com
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/santehq-com/am9icG9zdDpIA19xoJ93govBU5DWDBSJ

## Job description

Full Stack Product Engineer

Santé • Platform Engineering • Flatiron, NYC In office, full time • $220k–$280k base salary + meaningful equity

## About Santé

Santé is building the AI operating system for local retailers. Our platform brings point of sale, integrated payments, eCommerce, inventory, delivery integrations, marketing, bookkeeping, and AI agents into one system so independent liquor, grocery, and convenience stores can compete with national chains and build lasting value in their businesses.

We're building a future where the corner store has better technology than the national retailer. Your work reaches real stores quickly, and feedback comes directly from the owners running them. We ship daily, use AI coding agents throughout development, and build together in person in NYC.

## About the Team

Platform Engineering owns POS and checkout, architecture, and observability. This small team builds the foundations that Money Movement, Merchant Experience, and Applied AI depend on. You'll ship merchant-facing product across the stack and establish technical patterns other teams adopt. Our core stack is TypeScript, React, Next.js, tRPC, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.

## About the Role

We're looking for an engineer who can make a complex system feel simple to the person using it. You'll own features from product decisions through production: making checkout feel effortless during a rush, tracing latency into PostgreSQL, or designing retries that cannot charge a customer twice. Your decisions will shape both the product merchants use and the foundations other engineers build on. You will identify meaningful problems with merchants and teammates, make product and technical tradeoffs, and improve what you ship based on how it performs in real stores.

In this role you will

- Design and ship full-stack features, from intuitive React interfaces to reliable APIs and data models.
- Own projects from problem definition and technical design through testing, launch, and iteration, working closely with Product and store owners.
- Strengthen checkout and payments, making sales correct and recoverable through concurrent writes, network failures, and retries.
- Build shared components, internal tools, and development workflows that make the whole engineering team more effective.
- Operate what you ship. Trace slow interactions from the browser to PostgreSQL, improve observability, and eliminate recurring causes of production incidents.
- Direct AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow, reviewing their work and validating behavior before it reaches merchants.
- Raise engineering standards through thoughtful design reviews, clear code, and mentoring that improves how teammates solve problems.

## Your background looks something like this

- A record of owning substantial full-stack products in production. You can explain the decisions you made, the tradeoffs, and what improved for users.
- Strong programming fundamentals and depth in modern frontend development, including interaction details, state management, accessibility, and performance.
- Depth in backend design and relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including API boundaries, data modeling, transactions, query plans, and indexes.
- Practical understanding of distributed systems. You reason clearly about concurrency, idempotency, retries, and partial failure.
- Experience diagnosing production problems with logs, traces, and metrics, then fixing the underlying cause.
- Product judgment: you turn an ambiguous merchant problem into a focused solution and know when a simpler design is the better one.
- The autonomy to take an open-ended problem from first principles to a working product, and the communication skills to bring teammates with you.

Even better

- Payments or retail experience, including card terminals, preauthorization and capture, multi-location operations, or offline-resilient POS.
- Experience with our core stack, or operating Aurora/RDS, ElastiCache, and production observability tools such as Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience establishing shared architecture or developer tools adopted across teams.
- Experience building LLM-powered products or improving how teams use AI coding agents.

We value demonstrated engineering judgment and impact. If you bring that depth and can learn quickly, we welcome your application even if you haven't used every tool in our stack.

## Compensation

$220k–$280k base salary plus meaningful equity.

Compensation within the range depends on experience, skills, and scope of responsibility.

## Benefits

- Fully company-covered medical and dental benefits.
- 401(k)
- Weekly catered lunch, and dinner provided each evening for employees who would like to eat with the team.

## About santehq.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Santé is an all-in-one, AI-powered point-of-sale and operations platform purpose-built for liquor and wine retailers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator S23)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Darren Fike (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Vertical SaaS for retail (wine & spirits), fintech, e-commerce
- **Target customers**: B2B – independent liquor stores, wine shops, and multi-location retailers; expanding into convenience and local grocery stores
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Help liquor store owners build long-term equity in their businesses” and “solve real-world problems with AI” – giving small business owners time back with a modern operating system.

## Products & Services
- **Santé POS**: A unified point-of-sale system that consolidates receiving, inventory, e-commerce, delivery marketplace integrations (DoorDash, Uber Eats, GrubHub, Instacart), marketing, reporting, and payments into a single platform.
- **AI-Powered Invoice Scanning**: Automatically extracts data from distributor invoices, updating inventory levels and unit costs in minutes.
- **Marketing Agent**: Segments customers based on purchase history and triggers email/SMS campaigns for restocks, promotions, or tasting events.
- **Automated E‑commerce Cataloging**: Auto-generates SEO-optimized descriptions and images for thousands of SKUs.
- **RFID-Based Theft Monitoring & Compliance**: Includes state-by-state alcohol shipping regulation management and bottle/keg tracking.
- **Smart Multi-Store Inventory**: Enables seamless inventory transfers between locations with predictive reordering.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**: Total funding of **$7.6M** (seed round, Feb 2026); processed **$500M+ in annual card volume** across hundreds of stores; **400% growth** in the last year.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Operator Collective, Y Combinator, Veridical Ventures, TipTop VC, UpHonest Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding from liquor stores into grocery and convenience verticals; headcount grew ~1.9% monthly (now 31 employees across 10 countries); backed by top-tier vertical SaaS investors.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep industry focus**: Built specifically for the complex regulatory, inventory (vintage, break‑pack pricing, keg returns) and distributor relationship challenges of the wine & spirits industry.
- **AI‑first platform**: Proprietary AI suite that automates manual workflows (invoice entry, cataloging, customer segmentation) – a moat that legacy POS systems lack.
- **Unified ecosystem**: Combines POS, e‑commerce, delivery, marketing, and payments in one system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Fast adoption & traction**: 400% YoY growth and hundreds of stores live, with customers like Wine Cellar of Queens expanding store count because of Santé.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale sales teams** to capture more of the fragmented U.S. liquor retail market.
- **Develop new products** for grocers and convenience stores with similarly complex operations (e.g., age‑restricted items, varied pricing).
- **Continue investing in AI** to further automate retail workflows and differentiate from competitors.

## Why Work Here
- **In‑person culture**: Based in Flatiron, NYC – the team builds together in person with a “world‑class team.”
- **High impact**: With only 31 employees, every hire has outsized influence on product direction and company growth.
- **Backed by elite investors**: Y Combinator, Bonfire Ventures, and others provide strong strategic support and credibility.
- **Mission‑driven**: Work on technology that directly helps small business owners reclaim time and build equity – tangible real‑world impact.
- **Growth trajectory**: 400% annual growth and a clear path to expanding into adjacent retail verticals means career advancement opportunities.
- **Values‑driven**: Company emphasizes clarity of vision, solving real problems with AI, and giving employees “a shot on goal” to win.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – Santé Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/santehq)
2. [Santé Official Website – About Us](https://www.santehq.com/about)
3. [Y Combinator – Santé Jobs Page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sante/jobs)
4. [Indexed.vc – Santé Company Profile](https://indexed.vc/companies/santehq)
5. [WebWire – Santé Raises $7.6M Press Release](https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=350499)

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