Product Engineer
About United Borders Inc.
United Borders Inc. is a global commerce company on a mission to make cross-border shopping and distribution as seamless as possible. Through technology, logistics, and customer-focused services, we connect people with products across borders - making global shopping feel local.
Hanpoom.com is our Korean e-commerce platform, offering more than 4,000 Korean food, lifestyle, and everyday products to customers around the world, including free 2-day international shipping to the U.S.
Kimsbasket.com is our fully English-language platform, built for global customers looking to discover and enjoy premium Korean food and lifestyle products.
Together, our platforms are redefining how Korean products are discovered, purchased, and delivered worldwide - making the experience faster, simpler, and more delightful.
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Our Tech Stack
- Frontend: Typescript, React (NextJS, Remix) & Tailwind
- Backend: Typescript, Node.js (NestJS), TypeORM, GraphQL and MySQL
- Infrastructure: AWS and GCP
Primary Responsibilities
Note: This role combines two equally important responsibilities: PRODUCT OWNERSHIP and FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT
As a Product Engineer, you’ll bridge product decisions and engineering execution while remaining a hands-on contributor to development. With an initial focus on our e-commerce storefront, you’ll take product problems from requirements to technical solution and implementation.
This isn’t a role where you’ll simply implement tickets. You’ll be expected to ask questions, challenge requirements when necessary, identify better approaches, and take ownership of delivering solutions that create meaningful customer and business impact.
Your role includes:
- Work with Product, UX/UI, Engineering, and QA to plan and deliver product improvements
- Translate business and product requirements into clear technical solutions and development tasks
- Review requirements for feasibility, edge cases, dependencies, and risks
- Define technical approaches and identify opportunities to reuse or extend existing components, APIs, and data structures
- Develop and maintain storefront and internal system features, and build integrations with internal and external APIs
- Own features from planning and development through QA and release
- Validate features against product requirements and expected customer behavior
- Use product data, customer behavior, and technical findings to identify and recommend improvements
- Improve development processes, technical documentation, and communication between Product and Engineering
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional full stack development experience
- Strong experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience in Node.js/NestJS or similar backend frameworks
- Good understanding of RESTful APIs, third-party integrations, databases, and SQL
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Product-minded and able to balance user experience, business needs, and technical constraints
- AI-native and comfortable using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code for development, exploration, debugging, and problem-solving
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Shopify, Hydrogen, or other e-commerce platforms
- Experience with GraphQL, TypeORM, or MySQL
- Experience with analytics and error-monitoring tools
- Experience working in cross-functional product teams
What Success Looks Like
In this role, success means:
- Requirements & Readiness: Ensure requirements are complete and feasible, identify risks and dependencies early, and prioritize work based on impact, urgency, effort, and technical considerations
- Product Delivery: Own execution from planning through development, QA, and release while keeping scope clear and minimizing unnecessary changes
- Engineering Contribution: Remain hands-on in the codebase by developing features, integrations, and technical improvements alongside the engineering team
- Product Impact: Use customer behavior and product metrics to validate shipped features and recommend improvements that contribute to better customer and business outcomes
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About Our Team
We’re a growing start-up headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, with a Philippine-based team working closely with our HQ.
We’re building a team around curiosity, ownership, accountability, and autonomy. We look for people who communicate openly, ask questions, take responsibility for their work, and are comfortable challenging existing approaches when they see a better way.
You’ll thrive here if you’re willing to learn, explore beyond what you already know, and continuously look for better ways to solve problems.
Job Details
Position: Product Engineer
Type: Full-time
Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Philippine Time
Work Setup: 100% Work From Home
Location Requirement: Applicants must be currently residing in the Philippines