Web Product Engineer

🚀 WE'RE HIRING — WEB PRODUCT ENGINEER
📍 Thao Dien, Thu Duc, HCMC | 🕗 Mon–Fri, 8:30am–5:30pm (onsite)

About us

WorkBuddy is an Australia-based company. We deliver transformative job management solutions that help businesses reach new heights. We help businesses - particularly in trade, construction, maintenance, cleaning, plumbing, and facilities **- manage the **whole life-cycle **of jobs done in the field. It's a system to coordinate **staff, jobs, assets, subcontractors, compliance, and reporting, rather than relying on spreadsheets or disconnected tools.

What WorkBuddy can do
* Job & Workforce Management: End-to-end job tracking, scheduling, mobile field apps, and subcontractor coordination.
* Operations & Compliance: Tools for safety, compliance, asset tracking, and project management.
* **Business Insights: **Reporting and dashboards for performance monitoring and data-driven decisions.
* Integrations: Connects with accounting systems, business intelligence tools, and third-party platforms to streamline data and workflows.

At WorkBuddy, you'll thrive in a** fast-paced setting** and tackle challenges head-on. You'll take initiative and see your work make an impact. Everyone is deeply committed to building high-quality products, staying ahead with the latest technology, **and putting user experience at the heart **of what we do. Together, we create solutions we're proud of.

🔗 https://workbuddy.com/

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1️⃣ WHAT YOU'LL DO
* **Own products and features from beginning to end **- originate ideas, understand the strategy and goals behind them, ship to production with real users, iterate on feedback, and stay responsible for their ongoing success.
* Scope features and projects, including writing **handover / technical design documents (as built) **- the person who built a feature is the best person to document it.
* **Improve application performance **- ship technical improvements that make the product faster, more stable, and ready to scale.
* Improve how we work, not just what we build: refine development processes, drive improvements in code quality and engineering best practices - and hold a zero-bug standard: bugs get fixed promptly, not stockpiled in a backlog.
* Work closely with designers **to craft thoughtful UX/UI - ship and own the basic experience using the design system, deciding when to bring in design to polish - and collaborate with the **Customer Success team to learn how the product is actually being used.
* Bring a tester's mindset - testing is part of building, not someone else's job. You own the quality of what you ship and stand behind it.

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2️⃣** WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR**
* 3-5 years building customer-facing, full-stack web applications end-to-end as a full-time software engineer - ideally at a **product or SaaS startup, high-growth environment, or consultancy **with a high engineering bar, where you've shipped real software for real customers and stayed long enough to see the impact of your technical decisions.
* Strong on the front-end - you're at your best crafting polished, performant UI (we work in Angular) and you sweat the details users actually feel.
* Excellent English & communication: professional working proficiency (C1 level, IELTS 6.0, or equivalent). You don't need the certificates, but you should be comfortable communicating at this level - you can articulate and explain your solutions with confidence in English.
* A natural problem solver - you enjoy untangling hard problems and can move confidently from a user's problem to the right solution.
* Strong product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish - a genuine love of beautiful, well-crafted work; you want to understand why, and you push back when something doesn't feel right.
* **AI-native **- you naturally reach for AI tools in your daily work to move faster, learn quicker, and raise the quality of what you ship.
* High ownership mentality: comfortable working without heavy PM overhead - self-directed, hands-on, takes a feature from idea to shipped, comfortable with ambiguity, knows when to get help, ships something, learns, and iterates.
* **You move fast **because you're having fun and want to deliver value here and now - not because someone's watching you.
* A grown-up: low-ego, flexible, kind, considerate, and professional - able to put ego aside when making decisions (this is about attitude, not age or experience).

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3️⃣** WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR**
* You like management checking in, reviewing, and verifying your work multiple times.
* You're looking for a** cushy 9-to-5 job t**o coast.
* You tend to over-architect solutions when simpler, more pragmatic approaches are more appropriate.

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4️⃣ TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
* **Proficient in Angular and TypeScript: **you've shipped polished, performant UI to production, and RxJS is a given.
* Solid understanding of **state management **(e.g. NgRx, Signals, or equivalent) and when to use what.
* Comfortable with **front-end performance concerns: **change detection, bundle size, rendering data-dense views (grids, schedulers, dashboards), and real-time updates over WebSockets.
* Experience designing and building REST APIs in NestJS: DTOs and validation, controllers/services, and keeping the API contract clean for the typed clients that depend on it.
* Solid data modeling skills: designing schemas around access patterns, caching with intent. MongoDB experience is a plus; the thinking matters more.
* Comfortable working in a** large existing codebase:** you can read, extend, and build on services you didn't write, not just greenfield projects.
* Nice to have: event-driven messaging (NATS, RabbitMQ), Socket.IO, Stripe/Xero integrations, or building agentic AI features (we build on Mastra with the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs).

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💙** WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING HERE**
* Growth opportunities: we'll support your learning and development.
* A collaborative, fun team: you'll work with super-talented folks, sharing laughs and good vibes every day.

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🎁 PERKS & BENEFITS WE OFFER
* 13-month salary
* 14 days of annual leave
* 5 days of sick leave
* 1 day of birthday leave
* Company trip
* Frequent team-building budget - our folks often use this for weekly coffee catch-ups or fun weekend activities together.
* Private health insurance for you and one family member
* Birthday and Tet holiday gifts
* Annual salary review