STAFF FULL STACK ENGINEER (Contract)

Location: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Spain, Peru

Job Description

Counterpart is an insurtech platform reimagining management and professional liability for the modern workplace. We believe that when businesses lead with clarity and confidence, they become more resilient, more innovative, and better prepared for what's ahead. That's why we built the first Agentic Insurance™ system — where advanced AI and deep insurance expertise come together to proactively assess, mitigate, and manage risk. Backed by A rated carriers and trusted by brokers nationwide, our platform helps small businesses grow with confidence. Join us in shaping a smarter future, helping businesses Do More With Less Risk®.

As a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be a prolific cross-functional contributor who leverages AI throughout your development workflow to demonstrate business and product awareness. You must bridge the gap between Product, Insurance, Data and AI to build a platform that feels like a single seamless experience. You're a go getter, love learning, use AI to think bigger and ship faster, and are a wonderful person to work with. You exemplify thoughtful action of what it means to be a great engineer and a presence the organization can rely on.

OUR AI-ENABLED CULTURE

At Counterpart, AI isn't a nice-to-have—it's how we work. We expect our engineers to leverage AI tools throughout their entire workflow: from problem analysis and architecture design, to code generation, testing, and documentation. If you're still writing most code by hand or treating AI as just an autocomplete tool, this role isn't the right fit. We're looking for engineers who use AI to think bigger, ship faster, and maintain higher quality standards.

What this means in practice:

• You use AI to explore solution spaces before writing a single line of code
• You leverage AI to generate a significant amount of your code while you focus on architecture, review, and problem-solving
• You've experienced significant productivity gains through AI-assisted development without compromising quality
• You treat AI coding assistants as essential tools, like your IDE or version control

YOU WILL

Below are some key projects we are working on. You will be a part of one or more of these objectives:

• Modernize insurance application workflows. We are enhancing our Django system to update and automate workflows for our Risk Engineering team. You will use AI-assisted development to rapidly iterate on key UI components and backend enhancements, delivering the best user experience possible at unprecedented velocity.
• Enhance productivity with AI. Collaborate with the Data and Risk Engineering teams to integrate AI into every part of our workflow. Create an AI platform to enhance adoption of agents. Wrangle data from docs, email, the web, and more into insightful, data driven actions. This isn't just about building AI features—you'll be using AI tools daily to accelerate your own delivery and collaborate more effectively.
• Enable small businesses to manage HR with modern software. Enhance our HR application to support its next phase of growth using AI-powered development to move faster than traditional development cycles.
• Emerging Products. Create new services to enable our Claims team to process a larger volume of complex claims across many different insurance lines. Use AI to rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions.
• Dev experience first. Work with engineering leaders to create an amazing remote dev experience. Establish AI-enabled development standards: how we use AI for code review, architecture decisions, test generation, and documentation. Define how we balance AI assistance with engineering judgment. This will have a huge impact on scaling with sustainable growth and workplace happiness.

YOU HAVE

AI-First Development Skills:

• 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

Technical Experience:

• 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

Who You Will Work With

• Derrick Franco, Principal Engineer: After teaching himself to code at 13, Derrick went on to co-found Jumpstart in addition to building out the technical divisions at InvestorsAlley and Phinaz Media Group. Nowadays Derrick spends his time reading, with his wife, and working on his podcast The Future of Work Project.
• Julian Prokay, Principal Engineer: A veteran of the SaaS space with experience working on both student systems and construction management software. In his free time, he enjoys history podcasts and fantasy literature.
• Ron Alexessen, Engineering Manager: With experience at Hewlett-Packard, New Relic, Rackspace, and consulting agencies, Ron has built teams and shaped technical culture across different environments. He's passionate about AI-enabled development as a force multiplier and building solutions that create real business impact. Outside work, he boulders, runs, rides gravel bikes, and co-parents active teenagers—embracing structured chaos in all of it.
• Newton Troung, Engineering Manager: Newton joins Counterpart with 7+ years of experience in platform and data engineering. In his last company Thrive Market, he had a hand in building out new microservices and architecting data pipelines with Airflow and Spark. He's vegetarian and loves trying new restaurants when traveling. Nowadays he's busy keeping up with his 2-year-old and doing outdoor activities with his family.
• John Mendez, Engineering Manager: John has experience working at companies of all sizes. He enjoys startups and small-to-medium businesses, where he can wear multiple hats and help deliver solutions. Outside of work, he stays busy with his four kids and their activities. He also makes time to stay active by working out at home and running or walking with his dog.

COUNTERPART'S VALUES

• Conjoin Expectations - it is the cornerstone of autonomy. Ensure you are aware of what is expected of you and clearly articulate what you expect of others.
• Speak Boldly & Honestly - the only failure is not learning from mistakes. Don't cheat yourself and your colleagues of the feedback needed when expectations aren't being met.
• Be Entrepreneurial - control your own destiny. Embrace action over perfection while navigating any obstacles that stand in the way of your ultimate goal. Leverage AI ruthlessly—we measure success by outcomes, not lines of code written. Use every available AI tool to ship faster and think more strategically.
• Practice Omotenashi ("selfless hospitality") - trust will follow. Consider every interaction with internal and external partners an opportunity to develop trust by going above and beyond what is expected.
• Hold Nothing As Sacred - create routines but modify them routinely. Take the time to reflect on where the business is today, where it needs to go, and what you have to change in order to get there.
• Prioritize Wellness - some things should never be sacrificed. We create an environment that stretches everyone to grow and improve, which is fulfilling, but is only one part of a meaningful life.

WE OFFER

1. 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.
2. Language Classes - We sponsor up to $100 per calendar year to be used towards language classes to help support your English language skills.
3. Paid Vacation and Time Off
4. 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.
5. 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!

Our estimated pay range for this role is USD $90,000 - $110,000 annually. Contractor compensation is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, market data, location, internal equitability, and experience.

We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

Como Senior Software Engineer en Checkr, trabajarás en proyectos de ingeniería de alto impacto que ayudan a construir un futuro más justo para todos. Checkr busca a un ingeniero de software senior con experiencia para unirse al grupo Enterprise, trabajando en la creación de integraciones para Sistemas de Seguimiento de Candidatos (ATS).

La misión de nuestro equipo es proporcionar los antecedentes penales más precisos y completos de la industria para clientes en todo el mundo. Estamos contratando para un equipo enfocado en unificar las experiencias que ofrecemos en todos los productos de evaluación de antecedentes de Checkr para nuestros clientes en EE. UU. e internacionales, brindando funcionalidades de plataforma comunes a otros equipos de Checkr. Nuestro equipo se dividirá en un 70% de trabajo backend y un 30% frontend. Como ingeniero senior, tendrás un papel fundamental en la arquitectura de las soluciones.

Lo que harás:

• Aprender sobre los sistemas ATS y las leyes internacionales que rigen las verificaciones de antecedentes y cómo las cumplimos en Checkr. Estas reglas pueden variar mucho según el país, pero nuestra plataforma debe soportarlas todas: este equipo se enfoca en construir funcionalidades de plataforma bien arquitecturadas y delimitadas para que otros equipos de Checkr las utilicen.
• ¡Los equipos que construyen productos específicos de evaluación de antecedentes son los principales clientes de este equipo!
• Este rol ayudará a unificar su código (backend + frontend) y la experiencia de usuario (UX) de estas evaluaciones en toda la organización, para que nuestros clientes cuenten con la misma funcionalidad de excelencia sin importar en qué parte del mundo estén contratando.
• Colaborar con Staff Engineers y el liderazgo para diseñar las soluciones y los planes de ejecución adecuados para materializar nuestra visión de plataforma.
• Comunicarte con desarrolladores internos y externos para construir soluciones que mejoren su productividad.

Lo que traes contigo:

• Más de 7 años de experiencia en desarrollo de software full-stack.
• Un fuerte sentido de propiedad (ownership).
• Conocimiento en lenguajes de programación orientados a objetos, preferiblemente Ruby y Javascript (React.js).

Requisitos indispensables (Must haves):

• Dominio del idioma inglés, reportas a tu Manager en EEUU y las entrevistas técnicas son conducidas por los equipos de EEUU.
• Sólida comprensión de los fundamentos de las ciencias de la computación, como bases de datos relacionales, estructuras de datos y algoritmos, Mapeo Objeto-Relacional (ORM), y APIs REST.
• Buenas prácticas de desarrollo utilizando Test Driven Development (TDD), Domain Driven Design (DDD), y programación funcional y orientada a objetos.
• Experiencia con microservicios (y patrones como Event Sourcing o API Gateways).
• Experiencia con arquitecturas orientadas a eventos (Event Driven Architectures) utilizando herramientas como Kafka, RabbitMQ o SQS.
• Una mentalidad de jugador a con un fuerte sesgo hacia la acción: elevas el estándar, te mueves con urgencia, te mantienes resiliente ante la ambigüedad y asumes la responsabilidad para lograr resultados significativos.

Deseables (Nice to have):

• Experiencia en observabilidad (usando herramientas como Datadog, Grafana o Splunk).
• Experiencia en IA (Inteligencia Artificial).
• Curiosidad por descubrir cómo entregar código limpio, robusto y escalable.
• Comprensión de cómo construir sistemas distribuidos confiables y capacidad para discutir sus ventajas y desventajas (trade-offs) en profundidad.
• Excelentes habilidades de comunicación y capacidad para generar acuerdos entre grupos de personas con diferentes niveles de experiencia técnica.

Lo que obtendrás

• Un entorno colaborativo y dinámico.
• Trabajamos en modalidad híbrida, vamos 3 días por semana a la oficina ubicada en el edificio costanera, cerca del metro Tobalaba.
• Almuerzo en la oficina.
• Ser parte de una empresa internacional con sede en Estados Unidos.
• Bono anual de $3,000 USD para, certificaciones, cursos, aprendizaje y desarrollo profesional.
• Compensación competitiva y oportunidades de avance profesional y personal.
• Cobertura del 100% en salud, vida y dental para empleados y dependientes.
• Beneficios de vacaciones adicionales (5 días extra) y flexibilidad para tomar tiempo libre.
• RSU