Full-Time
Product Engineer
Updated on 8/1/2026
Sandbar
51-200 employees
Develops private voice communication interface
Compensation Overview
$140k - $190k/yr
New York, NY, USA
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- The candidate must have at least 3 years of experience building and shipping consumer-facing software products.
- The candidate must have strong proficiency in modern web technologies, including TypeScript and React or similar technologies, and desktop frameworks including Swift and Electron.
- The candidate must be comfortable working across the stack, including backend services, application programming interfaces, and frontend development.
- The candidate must have a track record of building zero-to-one products or features in ambiguous environments.
- The candidate must have strong attention to interaction details.
- The candidate must demonstrate strong interdisciplinary communication, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and high technical output.
- The candidate must have a passion for human-computer interfaces.
- Extend Stream into novel desktop, web, and other surfaces while owning the full stack from user interface to backend.
- Design and build interaction patterns for novel input-output paradigms.
- Develop new features and integrations end-to-end, including backend services where needed.
- Collaborate with iOS, firmware, and backend engineers to maintain a seamless cross-platform experience.
- Work with product, design, and go-to-market teams to ship releases, gather insights, and iterate.
- Experience with real-time or interactive applications is a plus.
- Experience with audio and media application programming interfaces is a plus.
Sandbar creates an interface built around Stream, a private voice space designed to hold and organize everything on your mind. It uses voice as the main input and workspace to capture thoughts, ideas, and notes in a private ring, rather than public posts or text-only tools. Users talk to Stream to record and manage what they’re thinking, and the interface guides how those thoughts are stored, recalled, and organized. Sandbar differentiates itself by focusing on a private, voice-first space rather than mass-market social feeds or public messaging, aiming to give people a personal, accessible way to capture and structure their inner thoughts. The company’s goal is to provide a simple, private voice interface that lets you express and organize everything on your mind through Stream.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$13M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- A $23 million Series A funds launch and product iteration.
- Notion and desktop integrations can expand workflow distribution.
- Agentic workflows can move Stream beyond transcription into execution.
What critics are saying
- Premium pricing and subscriptions create a steep consumer adoption hurdle.
- Crowded wearable competition from Oura, Friend, and Bee compresses differentiation.
- Launch delays or weak transcription quality can stall pre-revenue hardware momentum.
What makes Sandbar unique
- Former Meta interface designers founded Sandbar in 2023.
- Stream is a voice-first ring for discreet notes and brainstorming.
- Custom AI models resurface relevant past notes from audio inputs.
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Unlimited Paid Time Off
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