Product Engineer
SafetyWing
Product
Remote
Posted on Sep 16, 2025
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.
- Department
- Engineering
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Remote
- Workplace type
- Fully remote
🌎 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 Java (Kotlin would be a great advantage)
- 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
💻 Technologies you will use
- 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!
About SafetyWing
SafetyWing was founded to support nomads like ourselves by building an adaptable software-based global social safety net.
Our products are created by a fully remote team distributed across the globe and stretching ten timezones while headquartered in San Francisco.
We’re here to remove the role of geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunities and freedom for everyone.
Our products are created by a fully remote team distributed across the globe and stretching ten timezones while headquartered in San Francisco.
We’re here to remove the role of geographical borders as a barrier to equal opportunities and freedom for everyone.
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