Product Engineer

Counterpart; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 87.132 - 106.495; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Unlimited Vacation

Work from Anywhere

Stock Options

Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Home Office Allowance

Wellness Stipend

Book stipend

Professional Development Reimbursement

No working birthdays

Charitable Contribution Matching

Zusammenfassung

Counterpart is looking for a Product Engineer to work remotely in Germany. You will be responsible for building production-quality code and leveraging AI to drive outcomes. The role requires an individual who can take ownership from project inception to deployment.

Excellent communication skills and collaboration with remote teams are essential. The position offers unique benefits such as unlimited vacation, stock options, and a wellness stipend.

Qualifikationen

• At least 3 years of experience building production web applications.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of software projects.
• Experience in gathering requirements directly from users.

Aufgaben

• Take accountability for the project outcomes.
• Translate business intents into functional requirements.
• Monitor and debug services in production.

Kenntnisse

Web application development

AI tools proficiency

Communication skills

Collaboration with remote teams

Tools

Python

Django

AWS

React

PostgreSQL

Jobbeschreibung

Build it. Ship it. Own it.

Location: Remote (United States)

About Counterpart

Counterpart is an insurtech platform reimagining management and professional liability for the modern workplace. We believe that when businesses lead with clarity and confidence, they become more resilient, more innovative, and better prepared for what's ahead. That's why we built the first Agentic Insurance™ system ‑ where advanced AI and deep insurance expertise come together to proactively assess, mitigate, and manage risk. Backed by A‑rated carriers and trusted by brokers nationwide, our platform helps small businesses grow with confidence. Join us in shaping a smarter future, helping businesses Do More With Less Risk®.

The Role

As a Product Engineer at Counterpart, you own problems and drive outcomes. You iron out requirements with stakeholders, partners, and customers. You leverage AI for implementation. You verify the end‑to‑end result. You iterate until you move the needle.

You run projects with other Product Engineers and AI agents. You know when to delegate to a human, when to delegate to an agent, and when to do it yourself.

You Will

Own the Problem

• Take accountability for the outcome.
• Talk directly to your users, stakeholders, and peers to discover the problem.
• Translate business intents into functional requirements that engineers and agents can build against.
• Determine where human judgment is non‑negotiable and where AI can augment or act autonomously.
• Own the non‑functional technical requirements. Specify the quality bar: performance, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability.

Build with AI

• Write production‑quality code across the stack: Python, Django, AWS, React, and PostgreSQL. You are not afraid of any layer.
• Direct agents and review their output with domain depth. Catch what they miss across the functional and non‑functional bar: correctness, edge cases, performance, security, testability, readability.
• Evaluate and improve agent output regularly. Track failure modes. Refine the prompts and patterns that lift the quality ceiling over time.
• Run projects that span other Product Engineers and agents. Coordinate work, manage dependencies, and keep things moving without micromanaging.
• Contribute to architectural decisions. Bring options and alternatives, not objections. Know when the elegant solution is the wrong call for a startup moving fast.
• Contribute to and manage the context harness as you build and deliver.

Verify and Iterate

• Surface delivery risks early. Bring solutions, not just problems. Keep your stakeholders informed without turning every risk into a meeting.
• Verify the end‑to‑end result yourself. Confirm the system does what the requirements say, and that the requirements were right.
• Drive adoption of what you ship. Documentation, enablement, and usage monitoring are part of the job.
• Monitor your services in production. Own the signal. Debug and fix what breaks.
• Participate in support rotations. When users run into issues with what you shipped, you investigate and fix them.
• Iterate until you move the needle. Shipping is not the finish line. Outcome is.

Raise the Bar

• Grow quickly and leave things better than you found them.
• Be aware of technical debt trade‑offs ‑ know when to move fast and when to slow down and clean up.
• Operate to the engineering standards for quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

You Have

• 3 years building production web applications across the full stack. The years are the floor, not the bar.
• Demonstrated end‑to‑end ownership. You have taken something from idea to deployment and working. Including the “behind the scenes” parts (auth, failure handling, monitoring, documentation). Experience can come from a job, freelance work, or self‑started projects. We care more about what you've owned from start to finish.
• Proficiency in developing with AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, similar) and the drive to stay ahead of how AI development practices are evolving.
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements directly. You have interviewed users, customers, and partner teams, and turned ambiguous intent into specs that engineers and agents can build against.
• Demonstrated experience owning both functional and non‑functional requirements. You have defined what a system must do and held the line on how well it must do it.
• A track record of owning a domain or initiative without close supervision. You have navigated ambiguity, made judgment calls, and been accountable for the outcome. Even in small or personal projects.
• Extreme ownership and a bias for action. You do not sit and wait. You chase stakeholders, customers, and answers when you need them.
• Domain curiosity. You learn the business context your work supports, not just the systems. You understand why the problem matters, not just how to solve it.
• The ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, and business, translating technical complexity without losing meaning.
• Low ego and high Emotional Quotient (EQ). You influence without authority, take feedback well, and leave your ego out of technical decisions.
• Experience working with distributed, remote teams.

How This Role Works

Product Engineering exists to collapse the distance between a problem and a working solution. You own a problem or part of a vision. You shape it with stakeholders. You build it with AI. You verify it end-to-end. You iterate until the metric moves.

You work within the Context Architecture, a shared system of documentation, design patterns, and domain knowledge that gives you the technical context to make autonomous decisions at every step.

This is not a role for engineers who need to be told how. It is a role for engineers who can take a problem, fill in the gaps with good judgment, and ship something that works.

Who You Will Work With

• Derrick Franco, Principal Engineer
• Julian Prokay, Principal Engineer
• Tony Nguyen, Engineering Manager
• Ron Alexessen, Engineering Manager
• Newton Truong, Engineering Manager
• John Mendez, Engineering Manager

Counterpart's Values

• Conjoin Expectations - it is the cornerstone of autonomy.
• Speak Boldly & Honestly - the only failure is not learning from mistakes.
• Be Entrepreneurial - control your own destiny. Leverage AI ruthlessly.
• Practice Omotenashi ("selfless hospitality") - trust will follow.
• Hold Nothing As Sacred - create routines but modify them routinely.
• Prioritize Wellness - some things should never be sacrificed.

We Offer

• Fully remote workplace
• Unlimited Vacation
• Work from Anywhere
• Stock Options
• Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Parental Leave
• Home Office Allowance
• Wellness Stipend
• Book stipend
• Professional Development Reimbursement
• No working birthdays
• Charitable Contribution Matching

Our estimated pay range for this role is $110,000. Base salary is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, market data, location, internal equitability, and experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.