Product Engineer Manifesto

It is our responsibility as builders to first seek to understand the problem, before diving into solutions.

We concern ourselves with design, technical, and business domains; taking an active part in each to shape the product and empower others to do the same.

Our craft combines Product Thinking with great technical execution.

We take great professional pride in the products we ship and refuse to limit ourselves to technical-only roles in our teams.

The Product Engineer Mindset

In our work as Product Engineers, we have come to value:

• Continuous delivery of working software over promises and estimations
• Asking why to understand the customer problem before diving into code
• Customer collaboration and feedback over tickets and second-hand knowledge
• Teamwork and communication over picking up tasks and working in isolation
• Testing the product ourselves over relying on others (especially our users) to find issues
• Domain knowledge and ownership over outsourcing strategic thinking to someone else

• Product Engineer Checklist (PDF)