Nylon is the AI research platform for tax and law professionals.
The tool practitioners reach for when the answer has to be right. We're used by 2,000+ firms across NZ, AU and the UK, backed by Blackbird, and expanding fast beyond research into the wider workflow professionals live in: client meetings, documents, the tools firms already use.
The roleProduct engineers at Nylon own a product stream end to end. Not a ticket queue or a component: a customer problem, and the outcome for the firms that have it.
You'll talk to accountants and lawyers, work out what actually makes a difference to their day, decide what's worth building, build it, ship it, then go back to the customer who asked for it and find out whether it worked.
What that looks likeYou talk to customers every week: calls, onboarding sessions, support threads. You'll have customers you know by name and can ring to test an idea.
You decide what to build. You weigh customer pain, usage data and commercial impact, and make the call with product instead of waiting for a spec.
You ship early. Get a rough version in front of real users, then iterate on what they actually do, not what they said they'd do.
You own the result: adoption, retention and revenue for your stream, not just whether it shipped. That includes production health, observability and the occasional incident.
You work full stack, including the UX. You design the first version yourself with our design system and bring in design when it's worth polishing.
AI-native. Agentic dev tooling (Claude Code) is the development loop.
Async-first. Effective writing is a key skill.
No prescribed solutions. We agree the problem and the constraints; how you solve it is yours.
We care about evidence of ownership, not years of experience.
We hire product engineers at every level. We set the level through the interview, not the title on your CV.
You've taken something from a customer conversation to production and can tell us what changed for them
You'd rather talk to a user than guess, and you're comfortable on a call with a partner at an accounting or law firm
High agency: you own outcomes, not tasks
You reason in trade-offs, technical and commercial, out loud and in writing
You already use AI tooling to ship faster, and you're curious about where that goes next
Show us something you built because you wanted it to exist (a repo, an app, a product or a business all count)
You have the right to work in Australia (we can’t offer visa sponsorship for this role)
Bonus: you've worked in or alongside accounting, tax, law or another professional-services world
What we run today. Experience with it helps; it isn't a filter.
Node.js, React, PostgreSQL
AWS, Terraform, Docker
Jest, GitHub Actions, Datadog
Skills Required
- 5+ years of commercial software development experience
- Experience taking a system from design through production and operating it
- High agency and demonstrated ownership of outcomes
- Ability to decompose complex problems and reason about trade-offs verbally and in writing
- Experience using AI tooling to improve software development
- Ability to build robust systems with production reliability in mind
- Evidence of independently building a project, application, product, repository, or business
- Right to work in Australia
What We Do
Nylon is a New Zealand-built AI company developing research tools for tax and law professionals. Its platform answers difficult legal and tax questions with technical responses and hyperlinked citations, serving accountants, lawyers and other professionals. Formerly known as Law Cyborg, Nylon says its tools are trusted by more than 1,800 firms globally, with customers across New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
