Product Engineer

AwardSpring•Chicago, IL

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for engineers who own outcomes, not tickets. AI-assisted development has changed the leverage one good engineer can bring, and we're staffing for that reality. This is an individual contributor role on a small product team. You'll work directly with peers in engineering, with product partners on the same team, and report to the CTO. AwardSpring is an AI-native product team. Nearly 100% of the code in our product is AI-generated. Every IC on this team - engineer, PM, designer, builder - ships features end-to-end in our codebase using agentic tooling. The line between traditional disciplines is intentionally blurred: PMs ship code, engineers make product calls, designers prototype in production. We hire for fluency in agentic development, not for time spent in any specific stack. If you've used Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable tools to ship real software at production quality, you already speak our language.

Requirements

Shipped production software using Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable agentic tools.
Comfortable in unfamiliar codebases. Our stack is .NET 8 / Angular / SQL Server, but you don't need to know it - you need to trust your tooling to take you into any stack.
3+ years working as an engineer in production environments
Strong opinions about what "good" looks like - both product decisions and craft
You'd rather ship one thing that matters than push three tickets across a board
Comfortable presenting ideas in front of customers, executives, and peers

Responsibilities

Ship complex, high-value features end-to-end across our products.
Drive the technical decisions for the systems you own - architecture, data model, performance.
Work directly in our codebase using agentic tooling as your primary development interface.
Push back when something shouldn't ship. Propose better solutions when the scoped one is wrong.
Stay close to customers - the best product engineers we've seen are the ones who actually talk to users.