Product Engineer

Meet Flent 👋🏼

Renting in India can be a nightmare. Think about it: visiting countless houses, arguing over rent, losing money to brokers, sticking to 11-month contracts, and spending lakhs of rupees into furnishing. It's a lot, and honestly, we deserve better.

This is where Flent comes in. We're creating a new standard of urban renting for India.

Imagine walking into a home that feels like it’s straight out of a lifestyle magazine - fully furnished, beautifully staged, all you need to bring is your clothes and your vibe. No need to persuade landlords, no dealing with brokers, and no 11-month lock-ins. It’s not just a vision; it’s what we believe the top 1% in India truly deserves.

We started Flent because we were fed up. Trying to find a decent place in the city was a nightmare. But beyond the frustration was a deep-seated passion for home decor and an eye for detail that we couldn't ignore. Numbers revealed that ~$10 Bn is spent annually on urban renting — and that was the tipping point. It convinced us of the potential to craft the future of renting, designed for those who demand more and compromise less.

Flent is backed by top-tier VCs and angels. Since our inception in Jan’24, we’ve launched 110+ homes in Bangalore, went viral on X more than we imagined, and crossed $1,000,000 in annual GMV.Hey — I’m Rishabh, co-founder & CPO at Flent. I lead all things tech, platform, and cashflow here.

Meet Your Team 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Hey - I'm Rishabh, co-founder & CPO at Flent. I lead tech, platform, and cash flow here.

If you've rented in an Indian metro, you know the drill. You open 40 tabs, run 12 WhatsApp threads, take 3 broker calls, and still move in with doubt. You never know what’s real - the photos, the pricing, the deposit math, the landlord's temperament.

What's broken isn't discovery. It's confidence. At Flent, we're productising every layer of the renting decision - until it feels as predictable as any modern consumer experience.

We're also not building software the old way. We're rewiring our stack around AI - not as a feature, but as infrastructure. Every engineer here will ship at a rate that wasn't possible two years ago. I'm looking for people who want to figure that out with me.

About the Role

You'll build the consumer product end-to-end. From "I'm exploring" to "I'm convinced" to "I've moved in at Flent" - and everything that keeps the experience tight after that.

I would not think about this as a feature-ticket role. You'll co-own what we build, why we build it, and whether it's working. If you've only ever shipped what a PM specced for you, this will feel different.

What you’ll broadly do:

• Search, matching, and home discovery
  The flows where a tenant goes from vague intent to a confident shortlist. Structured filters that actually matter, multi-signal ranking (price, commute, trust score, availability), preference matching from stated and inferred signals, and "why this home" explanations that make every recommendation legible.

• Pricing, policies, and move-in flows
  The surfaces where a tenant decides to commit. Transparent rent and deposit breakdowns with no hidden math, policy pages in plain language, step-by-step move-in checklists with real-time status, digital receipts for every payment and promise. A tenant should never need to ask "what happens next?".

• AI-powered product workflows
  AI features that tenants and internal teams use daily - conversational property Q&A backed by RAG, automated document verification, smart notification timing, intent-aware nudges. Each ships with output guardrails, confidence-gated fallbacks, eval harnesses, and human override paths. Not demos.

• Post-move-in resident systems
  The product after the lease is signed - rent payments, maintenance tickets, lease renewals, upgrade paths, proactive alerts. Move-in isn't the finish line; it's where retention starts.

• Release infrastructure
  Feature flags, staged rollouts by cohort, real-time error monitoring, instant rollbacks. We launch daily. Speed without observability is recklessness.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Build polished UI in React/Next.js - tight state management, performance budgets, optimistic updates, accessibility defaults, micro-interactions that feel intentional.

• Own frontend architecture: design system primitives, composable flow templates, analytics hooks, skeleton states, error boundaries that degrade gracefully.

• Build backend endpoints (Node/TS or Python) - clean Postgres models, well-indexed queries, pragmatic caching, API contracts that the frontend can trust.

• Wire event instrumentation end-to-end: intent signals, funnel steps, search interactions, conversion events, retention markers - feeding dashboards the team actually uses.

• Build and productionise AI flows: retrieval pipelines, structured tool calls, output validation, eval harnesses, confidence thresholds, fallback chains.

• Ship with rigour: tests on critical paths, feature flags for every launch, alerting on regressions, rollbacks that take minutes, not meetings.

• Use Claude Code daily - to learn unfamiliar codebases, scaffold safely, generate tests, and close knowledge gaps without waiting for someone to explain.

We’re looking for someone who:

• 3–5 years of proven experience in shipping consumer product in production, architecture decisions and UX judgment calls on things that real users touched.

• Has strong React/Next.js fundamentals. You understand rendering behaviour, can profile a janky scroll, know when the problem is state structure and not memoisation, and care about layout shift.

• Has a aolid backend competence. API design, relational data modelling, auth flows, and enough infra instinct to know when your query is the bottleneck.

• Has a product sense that goes beyond the brief. You can take an ambiguous problem, cut through options, and ship a flow that feels simple—because you did the hard thinking, not the user.

• Uses AI to work, not to experiment. Claude Code or equivalent is part of your daily workflow—for understanding unfamiliar code, writing tests, and refactoring. You treat it as leverage, not novelty.

• Learns faster than the problem shifts. New stack, new domain, new constraint—you close the gap in days, not quarters. This matters more to us than what you already know.

Educational background doesn’t matter to us. What does is your attitude, your ability to take ownership, and your willingness to do what it takes to make landlords feel taken care of.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

The total cash compensation for this role is up to INR 28 LPA. You’ll be eligible for ESOPs & standard perks beyond the cash component.

The role is based out of Indiranagar, Bangalore. We do not operate remotely, you should be based in Bangalore to be eligible for this role.

Read more our benefits, leave policy, perks, etc here.

Our Values

It is very important for us that you go through the culture vibe of Flent before you think of applying. We constantly evolve as individuals and as an organization, but we aim to keep these values at the core of our functioning till the day this company exists.

Our Team

Detailed bios of all our team members here.

The Hiring Process

We do not follow a fixed process for hiring at the moment. You’ll be doing a couple of calls with me, followed by interviews with two co-founders. Overall, we guage your intellect, your curiosity and your vibe to figure out if you’re the right fit for Flent.

It is difficult to respond to every application we receive, so you’ll hear from us only when we want to proceed forward. And once that happens, we promise to complete the entire process within two weeks.