Counterpart
Product Engineer
Remote (United States) · Principal · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
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About the role
- 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.
- Talk directly to your users, stakeholders, and peers to discover the problem.
Responsibilities
- Translate business intents into functional requirements that engineers and agents can build against.
- Own the non-functional technical requirements.
- As a Product Engineer at Counterpart, you own problems and drive outcomes.
- Own the non-functional technical requirements. Specify the quality bar: performance, scalability,
- Run projects that span other Product Engineers and agents. Coordinate work, manage dependencies, and keep things moving without micromanaging.
- Contribute to and manage the context harness as you build and deliver.
- Monitor your services in production. Own the signal. Debug and fix what breaks.
- You build it with AI.
- 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.
- Consider every interaction with internal and external partners an opportunity to develop trust by going above and beyond what is expected.
Requirements
- You have taken something from idea to deployment and working.
- Experience can come from a job, freelance work, or self-started projects.
- 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.
- 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.
- The ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, and business, translating technical complexity without losing meaning.
- Newton joins Counterpart with 7+ years of experience in platform and data engineering.
Compensation
- Charitable Contribution Matching
- 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.
- Our estimated pay range for this role is $110,000+.
Benefits
- Unlimited Vacation: We offer flexible time off, allowing you to take time when you need it.
- 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
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- You own a problem or part of a vision.
- Speak Boldly & Honestly - the only failure is not learning from mistakes.
- Be Entrepreneurial - control your own destiny.
Company info
- You iron out requirements with stakeholders, partners, and customers.
- Drive adoption of what you ship. Documentation, enablement, and usage monitoring are part of the job.
- We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about maki
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