Product Engineer

Counterpart•Remote (United States), OR

8d•$110,000•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Benefits

Fully remote workplace
Unlimited Vacation: We offer flexible time off, allowing you to take time when you need it.
Work from Anywhere: Counterpart is a fully distributed company, meaning there is no office. We allow employees to work from wherever they do their best work, and invite the team to meet in person a couple times per year.
Stock Options
Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage
401(k) Retirement Plan
Parental Leave
Home Office Allowance: to set up your home office with the necessary equipment and accessories.
Wellness Stipend
Book stipend
Professional Development Reimbursement
No working birthdays: Take your birthday off, giving you the opportunity to relax, enjoy your special day, and spend time with loved ones.
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