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title: 'Product Engineer at RetailPath'
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# Product Engineer at RetailPath

- **Company:** RetailPath
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $130k–$165k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/retailpath/am9icG9zdDowgg_e-72dZy6b9mwE9wt0

## Job description

## About RetailPath

[RetailPath](https://retailpath.xyz/) is on a mission to improve the day-to-day of operations teams in the CPG space. Every day, billions of dollars of goods get shipped by wholesale brands, and every day, brands lose hundreds of millions of dollars to market inefficiencies.

Our first product tackles retail shipping chargebacks; a major pain for operators. You’ll work directly with the founders, [Maysam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maysamardestani/) & [Connor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-guy/), to help take the product into the next chapter. We have strong early traction, funding, and office space in Chinatown, NYC.

## The Role

Work at the intersection of product, engineering, and design to directly improve the lives of our customers. If you only knew the software they have to deal with... there is a lot of opportunity.

We're looking for a product-minded engineer who can use their strong design sense to ship high-craft solutions and drive projects end-to-end. This role leans toward frontend work, but you'll need to be comfortable across the stack. We designed this role for engineers who want to grow fast and help shape a high-growth startup from the ground floor.

In practical terms, you'll work across the stack, talk to our amazing customers, like Barebells Protein Bars and Bioderma, to drive product decisions, and help define our product and engineering practices from the ground up.

You're a fit if you:

- Get energized turning messy customer problems into elegant product solutions
- Want a real hand in shaping what RetailPath becomes, and not just executing someone else's roadmap
- Take ownership instinctively, without waiting to be asked
- Do your best work in person and are excited to be in the office

This isn't the role for you if you:

- Thrive in established processes and clear org structures
- Need well-defined requirements before you can move
- Prefer execution over decision-making

Practically we look for:

- Experience solving ambiguous problems and scoping projects independently
- Early stage compatibility of moving fast and experimenting
- Incredible communicator and able to move from technical to high level depending on context
- Ability to design and complete projects end to end with minimal oversight
- Strong frontend (ts/next/react) and backend (python/fastapi/postgres) experience
- Cloud experience with GCP or an equivalent provider
- Know how to wrangle LLMs to do your bidding
- Proficiency with tools like Figma, v0, Claude Design, etc -- or your tool of choice! We are always looking to push our workflows.

It would be great if you had:

- Knowledge of wholesale retail or CPG brands and how they operate in tandem with related systems like EDI, ERPs, and 3PLs
- Have built agents using tools like CrewAI/Pydantic AI/etc
- Comfortable being customer facing

All these are, as the title suggests, "great to have." If this role really excites you and you don't match everything, you should still apply!

## How we work

- How we think as a [team](https://retailpath.notion.site/RetailPath-Culture-Doc-23aa04636468812e9ba3edd4e4a518ae)
- How we think as [Engineers](https://www.notion.so/retailpath/Product-Engineering-at-RetailPath-2dca0463646880aca9c2d8225652d86f)
- We have a strong in office presence and expect you in office
- Ownership and autonomy: drive projects from start to finish without micromanagement
- Unblock quickly: collaborate directly with customers to keep momentum
- Clarity and organization: communicate status and next steps clearly

What success looks like

- First Week- Dev environment setup
- Running local builds and tests
- Architecture and business walk through
- First PR merged
- 15 Days- Clear understanding of the codebase and core architecture
- Taking on small and medium tickets
- 60 Days- Independently scoping, developing, testing, and shipping features
- Identifying tech debt and proposing remediations
- Building depth in our domain and user pain points
- Beyond- Leading cross-functional initiatives with customers and internal stakeholders
- Architecting and implementing major features or system improvements
- Mentoring future product engineer hires and contributing to hiring decisions
- Driving technical strategy and influencing product roadmap

## About RetailPath

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: RetailPath provides an AI-powered retail operating system that helps wholesale CPG brands automate deduction recovery, cash application, and revenue leakage detection from retailer chargebacks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY (Chinatown), USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Maysam Ardestani (Co-Founder & CEO) and Connor (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Supply chain software / Enterprise software for consumer packaged goods (CPG)
- **Target customers**: B2B – wholesale CPG brands selling into major retailers (Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Ulta Beauty, etc.)
- **Mission**: Improve the day-to-day of operations teams in the CPG space by eliminating market inefficiencies that cost brands hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

## Products & Services
- **RetailPath Platform (SaaS)**: An all-in-one operating system that ingests retailer remittances, matches invoices, applies cash, classifies deductions, assembles shipment evidence, files disputes, and tracks outcomes. Includes AI-powered analytics to trace recurring losses to retailer, DC, carrier, SKU, and compliance issues.
- **Deduction Recovery**: Automated identification, evidence assembly, and dispute filing for invalid retailer chargebacks (claimed 95% win rate).
- **Cash Application**: Ingests remittances, matches to invoices, and posts cash with every short-pay explained.
- **RetailPath AI**: Uses LLMs and machine learning to classify deductions, draft disputes, and search for proof documents.
- **Integrations**: Connects with 3PLs, EDI providers (SPS Commerce, Orderful), and ERPs (NetSuite, Acumatica).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, seed stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – Seed round raised in 2025 (amount not specified); strong early traction with customers like Barebells, Caraway, Ritual, and Bioderma.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in available sources; founders have office space in NYC and backing from seed investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 95% dispute win rate claimed
  - 10+ hours saved per month per back-office person
  - Live in under a week for new customers
  - Trusted by leading CPG brands across categories
  - Hiring first product engineer (role posted with $130k–$165k salary)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first approach** – Uses LLMs and machine learning to automate deduction classification, evidence gathering, and dispute drafting, reducing manual work.
- **Speed to value** – Claims implementation in under a week and recoveries from day one.
- **End-to-end visibility** – Traces operational root causes of recurring chargebacks (retailer, DC, carrier, SKU, compliance) and feeds insights back to operations.
- **High win rate** – 95% dispute win rate suggests strong evidence assembly and retailer knowledge.
- **Founder-led, customer-obsessed** – Small team (2–5 people) works directly with customers, allowing rapid product iteration.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion** – Currently focused on deduction recovery and cash application; likely to expand into broader revenue intelligence and operational analytics for CPG wholesale.
- **Scaling the team** – Actively hiring a product engineer to own full-stack development and help shape engineering culture from the ground up.
- **Deepening integrations** – Building out connections with ERPs, 3PLs, and EDI providers to become the central operating system for CPG back offices.
- **Customer acquisition** – Targeting more mid-market and enterprise CPG brands selling into major US retailers.

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage impact** – Join as one of the first engineers (currently 2–5 people) and work directly with founders Maysam & Connor. Shape product, engineering practices, and culture.
- **Customer-facing role** – Engineers engage with customers (e.g., Barebells, Bioderma) to drive product decisions – ideal for those who enjoy solving real-world problems.
- **Onsite in NYC** – Office in Chinatown, Manhattan; role is onsite (not remote/hybrid based on job postings).
- **Compensation** – Base pay $130k–$165k for Product Engineer (competitive for early-stage NYC startup).
- **Tech stack** – TypeScript/Next.js/React (frontend), Python/FastAPI/PostgreSQL (backend), GCP, LLMs, Figma, v0, Claude Design. Modern, AI-forward tooling.
- **Culture** – Fast-moving, experimental, high-craft, design-conscious. Founders value strong communication and ability to scope ambiguous problems.
- **Perks** – Not explicitly listed, but typical early-stage perks include equity, direct mentorship, and significant ownership.

## Sources
1. [retailpath.ai](https://www.retailpath.ai/) – Official website with product overview, pricing, and features.
2. [retailpath.xyz](https://retailpath.xyz/) – Detailed product pages and integration list.
3. [linkedin.com/company/getretailpath](https://linkedin.com/company/getretailpath) – LinkedIn company page (2 employees, industry, key executives).
4. [builtinnyc.com](https://www.builtinnyc.com/job/product-engineer/9968644) – Product Engineer job description with mission, culture, and salary range.
5. [hiringcafe.com](https://hiringcafe.com/job/product-engineer-retailpath-new-york-new-york-1iuoqt0c10xbaeop) – Job posting confirming seed stage, founding year (2025), and team size.

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