Plus Also Studios is a creative technology business from Howatson+Company that helps clients embrace technology and refocus their marketing investment on the high value strategic tasks that drive their businesses forward.
We exist to help clients get to higher quality, more measurable outcomes, faster with continual optimisation at the core.
What's my job?
Located in our Melbourne or Sydney office, you’re the Product Engineer in the Data and Technology team, leading the build of Unicorn, our platform that helps companies create and roll out creative assets across print and digital. AI is at the core of how Unicorn works, and you'll help shape those systems and turn them into useful, reliable product experiences.
You'll work closely with internal users to understand their problems, identify opportunities and propose new features. You’re someone who can contribute to product discussions, challenge assumptions and then decide what to build and how to build it.
A Day in the Life
- Understand users and shape the product: Work directly with internal users, identify problems and opportunities, propose features and contribute to product direction.
- Take features from prototype through frontend, backend and AI integration, and into production.
- Build polished, intuitive interfaces, with real attention to usability and interaction details.
- Design clear architectures, APIs and data models that stay understandable as the product grows.
- Build AI features with modern models, agents and tool use, backed by the right guardrails, evaluation and observability.
- Improve how we build: Use coding agents effectively, experiment with new models and techniques, and help improve our engineering practices, tools and reusable components.
- Own what you ship: debug production issues and use analytics and user feedback to keep improving.
How will we know you are the one?
- You have mastery of React and Typescript, Databases, CI/CD, auth and cloud infrastructure. You've build products in which AI is deeply embedded.
- Strong experience building and shipping modern software products.
- Excellent frontend skills, with strong UX instincts and a valuable eye for visual quality.
- Strong software design fundamentals, and the judgment not to over-engineer.
- Good product judgment and the ability to turn ambiguous user problems into practical solutions.
- Experience building AI-enabled products or prototypes, including tool use, structured outputs, context management and evaluation.
- Confidence using coding agents and AI-assisted tools while keeping code quality high.
- Clear communication and strong collaboration with engineers, designers, creatives and users.
Other things that would make you excel in this role
- Familiarity with some of the following would be beneficial: Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, Containers and AI Gateway, MCP servers, SQL databases, PostHog or similar product analytics, CI/CD and automated testing, AI Harnesses, Loop Engineering, and AI image, video or audio.
Who are Plus Also Studios?
Plus Also Studios is a creative technology business by Howatson+Company. Our defining value is ‘care fiercely’. Care is to trust, to be a human, to accept the responsibility that we put in each other, and our clients put in us. Fiercely brings the action.
How do we do it?
Our ambition is to leave everything better than we found it. To move people, our industry, the world forward. All of this flows into how we behave:
Applies intersectional creativity
Creativity is not a department, it’s a philosophy. We combine unlikely disciplines to unlock full potential and innovation.
Smells uncertainty
Stays ahead of opportunities and challenges.
Finds new ways
Excited by the unknown, who want to help create the next frontier of advertising.
Exceeds expectations
Outcome driven, that will set a new standard of delivery, who sweat the details and never settle for improving the way something is done.
Adds to our culture
Goes beyond their to make this the best place to work.
Plus Also Studios is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
We invite anyone to apply. Please send your details and CV to
[email protected]
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let the recruitment consultant know.
📌 Product Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Plus Also Studios
📍 Melbourne