Product Engineer
Application Deadline: 24 September 2026
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Remote
Description
At
SafetyWing (YC W18)
, we’re building a global social safety net for remote workers - simple health, insurance, and retirement products designed to replace national welfare systems. Our mission is to remove geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunity and freedom for everyone. If we succeed, we believe this will be one of the most important tasks of our time.
🌎 About this Role
As a Product Engineer, you’ll help us build and scale systems that make our vision a reality. You’ll work with cutting-edge technologies to create clean, scalable solutions and play a key role in shaping both our products and our processes.
We’re a fast-growing team that thrives on creativity, innovation, and collaboration. Our tech and product teams work hand-in-hand to develop products that empower remote workers worldwide, while participating in the strategic direction of the company.
🧪 We are looking for someone who has
- A strong foundation in backend development with Kotlin
- Hands-on experience developing product's backend services with clean, scalable code
- A grasp of TypeScript, React, and Next.js
- A solid understanding of the product development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Curiosity about new technologies and a passion for incorporating them into their work
- Kotlin and Java with Micronaut
- TypeScript with React and NextJSRedux
- Redux Toolkit and React Query
- Styled Components and Tailwind
- MySQL with Hibernate and Liquibase
- Google Cloud with Kubernetes
😀 We like to work with people who
- Want to help build a global social safety net on the Internet.
- Think for themselves instead of copying others.
- Are willing to try new things, even with the risk of failure.
- Are intellectually curious and open to new ideas.
- Are creative and bold in the face of any problems.
- Have strong integrity and do the right thing.
🧘 What we offer
- Fully remote work environment – work from anywhere globally
- Transparent compensation and equity
- Our own Global Safety Net, giving you worldwide health, income, and travel coverage
- A minimum of four weeks of vacation per year
- Yearly personal development budget and office allowance
- A new laptop
- An annual team gathering in amazing locations—our previous meetups were in Japan, Mexico, Bali, Siglufjörður and Hoi An
🚀 We look forward to hearing from you!
