Product Engineer

Role Description

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.
  • Direct agents and review their output with domain depth.
  • Evaluate and improve agent output regularly. Track failure modes.
  • Run projects that span other Product Engineers and agents.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions.
  • Contribute to and manage the context harness as you build and deliver.
• Verify and Iterate
  • Surface delivery risks early. Bring solutions, not just problems.
  • Verify the end-to-end result yourself.
  • Drive adoption of what you ship.
  • Monitor your services in production.
  • Participate in support rotations.
  • Iterate until you move the needle.
• Raise the Bar
  • Grow quickly and leave things better than you found them.
  • Be aware of technical debt trade-offs.
  • Operate to the engineering standards for quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production web applications across the full stack.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership.
• Proficiency in developing with AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, similar).
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements directly.
• Demonstrated experience owning both functional and non-functional requirements.
• A track record of owning a domain or initiative without close supervision.
• Extreme ownership and a bias for action.
• Domain curiosity.
• The ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, and business.
• Low ego and high Emotional Quotient (EQ).
• Experience working with distributed, remote teams.

Benefits

• Fully remote workplace.
• Unlimited Vacation: flexible time off.
• Work from Anywhere: fully distributed company.
• 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: Take your birthday off.
• Charitable Contribution Matching.