Staff Product Engineer

The role

You will own problems and drive outcomes by translating business intents into functional requirements. You will build production-quality code across the stack using AI tools and manage projects involving other engineers and AI agents.

What you will do

• Take accountability for the outcome
• Talk directly to users, stakeholders, and peers to discover the problem
• Translate business intents into functional requirements
• Specify non-functional technical requirements like performance and security
• Write production-quality code across the stack
• Direct agents and review their output
• Run projects that span other Product Engineers and agents
• Contribute to architectural decisions
• Verify the end-to-end result and drive adoption
• Monitor services in production and participate in support rotations

Required qualifications

• 10+ years building production web applications across the full stack
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements directly
• Demonstrated experience owning both functional and non-functional requirements
• Track record of owning a domain or initiative without close supervision
• Extreme ownership and a bias for action
• Experience coordinating across engineers and AI agents on a shared initiative
• Strong technical judgment
• Proficiency with Python and Django
• Working knowledge of TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL
• Proficiency in developing with AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, similar)
• Domain curiosity
• Ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, and business

Benefits

• Work from Anywhere
• Language Classes: up to $100 per calendar year
• Paid Vacation and Time Off
• Parental Leave: up to 8 weeks of unpaid parental leave
• Computer: reimbursement for locally procured MacBook Pro

About the company

Counterpart is an insurtech platform reimagining management and professional liability for the modern workplace. They built the first Agentic Insurance system using advanced AI and deep insurance expertise.