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Posted about 1 month ago
, United States
$200,000 - $250,000
Salary: $200-250k + equity
Hybrid: 4 days a week in office SF or Seattle
Hiring count: 2
Report to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-gonzalez-b84959113/
Interview process:
About Stand:
Questions to ask candidates:
Job Description:
We are looking for a Product Engineer with 7-10 years of experience to own and lead entire product pillars at Stand. We are seeking a high-agency individual who has owned large product surfaces, made real tradeoffs, and is comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just implementations.
This role is not narrowly scoped. You’ll own critical systems across the insurance lifecycle, from core workflows (policy, underwriting, claims, payments) to entirely new products like wildfire preparedness inspections, risk monitoring, and customer-facing mitigation tools.
You’ll work closely with applied scientists, product leaders, and stakeholders to:
This is a high-leverage role with broad surface area and real influence over product direction.
Seniority:
Work experience:
Hard skills:
Soft skills:
Miscellaneous:
Traits to avoid:
Hybrid: 4 days a week in office SF or Seattle
Hiring count: 2
Report to: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-gonzalez-b84959113/
Interview process:
- Hiring manager screen
- Product mindset screen
- Take-home discovery call – 15 minutes
- Take Home
- Onsite:
- Presentation
- Problem-solving/whiteboarding challenge:
About Stand:
- We protect and insure home- wildfire, hurricane and bryond using physics and AI to understand the true risk of your property and help make your home insurable.
- Team size: 30
- Founded: 2024
- Total funding: $65 million
Questions to ask candidates:
- This Product Engineer role is a unique blend of a senior IC, product manager, and tech lead. Can you walk me through a time you've owned a product or feature end-to-end, from working with stakeholders to shipping the final code?
- We're looking for engineers who are excited about our mission to tackle climate risk in insurance. What about Stand's mission and the problems we're solving resonates most with you and your career goals?
- Can the candidate be on-site? If not, is the candidate willing to relocate?
- What is their salary expectation?
- How actively are they recruiting?
Job Description:
We are looking for a Product Engineer with 7-10 years of experience to own and lead entire product pillars at Stand. We are seeking a high-agency individual who has owned large product surfaces, made real tradeoffs, and is comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just implementations.
This role is not narrowly scoped. You’ll own critical systems across the insurance lifecycle, from core workflows (policy, underwriting, claims, payments) to entirely new products like wildfire preparedness inspections, risk monitoring, and customer-facing mitigation tools.
You’ll work closely with applied scientists, product leaders, and stakeholders to:
- Translate complex domain problems into shippable systems
- Decide what to build, not just how to build it
- Productionize models, pipelines, and tools that directly impact risk, revenue, and customer behavior
This is a high-leverage role with broad surface area and real influence over product direction.
Seniority:
- 7 -? 10 years of experience in full-?stack product engineering,? owning product surfaces end-?to-?end
Work experience:
- IC experience at high-?growth startups or top-?tier tech companies (FAANG,? Stripe) with high engineering bar
- Experience using LLMs/AI agents to improve engineering workflows
- Nice to have:
- Experience in regulated industries like insurance,? fintech,? or health
- Previous founder or founding engineer experience
Hard skills:
- Experience deploying,? operating,? and monitoring applications on modern PaaS or cloud platforms (Heroku,? Vercel,? Railway,? etc.?
- Tech stack: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres
Soft skills:
- Strong product mindset and ability/willingness to work directly with stakeholders
Miscellaneous:
- Genuine interest in Stand’s mission and the real-?world impact of the work
- Must work in-?office 4 days/week in SF or Seattle
Traits to avoid:
- Job hoppers or candidates without clear long-?term commitment.?
- Inability to engage in collaborative debate or has a large ego.?
- Overly specialized engineers (e.?g.?,? only ETL experience).?
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