Requirements
- Proven ability to integrate AI coding assistants like Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Windsurf as essential development tools rather than simple productivity enhancements
- Hands-on experience applying artificial intelligence to system architecture and design decisions, including crafting effective prompts for intricate technical challenges
- Consistently uses AI to significantly amplify development speed and output beyond conventional manual coding benchmarks
- Adaptable to AI-driven workflows, routinely employing AI for brainstorming, code reviews, troubleshooting, test creation, and technical documentation
- Background in developing and managing service platforms for both human and automated users, accelerated through AI-assisted engineering practices
- History of leading, drafting, and implementing detailed product and technical design documents
- Minimum of five years of professional experience using Python
- At least two years of hands-on experience with Django framework
- At least two years of experience working with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL
- Minimum of two years of experience using TypeScript
- Prior experience collaborating effectively within remote teams
Benefits
- Fully distributed workforce with no physical office; employees free to work from locations where they perform best, while aligning with US time zone meeting hours
- Annual sponsorship of up to $100 for language learning programs to enhance English proficiency
- Paid vacation and personal time off
- Unpaid parental leave available for up to 8 weeks for bonding with a new child via birth, adoption, or placement, requiring 45 days' advance notice and approval
- Reimbursement for a locally purchased Macbook Pro; device becomes employee's property after one year of continued employment
Work Arrangement
Fully remote; work from any location with consideration for US time zone meeting schedules
Team
Distributed team operating across time zones
Required
- Demonstrated proficiency using AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, etc.) as core development tools, not just productivity aids
- Experience using AI for system design and architecture decisions, including prompt engineering for complex technical problems
- You utilize AI as a force multiplier to achieve development velocity and output levels that far exceed traditional manual coding standards
- Comfort with AI-first workflows: You regularly use AI for ideation, code review, debugging, test generation, and documentation
- Experience building and maintaining a service platform for human and programmatic users using AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery
- Lead, written, and executed product and technical design specifications
- 5+ years of experience with Python
- 2+ years of experience with Django
- 2+ years of experience with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
- 2+ years of experience with Typescript
- Experience working on a remote team
Benefits
- 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, of course prioritizing meetings that often happen in US time zones.
- Language Classes - We sponsor up to $100 per calendar year to be used towards language classes to help support your English language skills.
- Paid Vacation and Time Off
- Parental Leave - Development Partners will be eligible for unpaid Parental Leave to bond with a newborn, newly-adopted, or newly placed child. Under this policy, development partners and independent contractors will be eligible for up to 8 weeks of unpaid parental leave. Any time off will be subject to approval and must be requested at least 45 days in advance.
- Computer - We reimburse you for your locally procured Macbook Pro. If you are still with the company after one year, it is yours to keep!
