Staff Product Engineer
hyperexponential3 days ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own customer problems end-to-end from discovery through production within a small pod.
- Work directly with customers and use customer signal to frame and iteratively ship solutions.
- Direct AI agents to draft implementations, tests, and migrations, then review, integrate, and harden the results.
- Design and deliver robust production systems with appropriate testing, observability, performance, and resource efficiency.
- Work across front end, back end, data, and infrastructure wherever the problem requires.
- Take accountability for outcomes, raise risks early, and make decisions without unnecessary escalation.
- Set technical direction on difficult problems and lead cross-cutting or decoupling work at Level 4.
- Maintain a quality bar across other engineers' work without becoming an approval bottleneck.
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end, including design, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience designing testing and observability for complex, debuggable, and safely evolvable systems.
- Ability to work effectively in a polyglot environment and learn unfamiliar languages, domains, and codebases quickly.
- Strong systems experience such as Rust, C/C++, or Python is valued.
- Experience working outside a primary technical layer when the problem requires front-end, data, or infrastructure work.
- Experience using AI tools seriously in software development, with the judgment to direct, review, and take responsibility for their output.
- Product and design judgment, including shaping solutions and making sensible decisions under ambiguity.
- Evidence of owning outcomes beyond immediate implementation tasks.
- At Level 4, experience setting technical direction, influencing other engineers, maintaining quality standards, and leading cross-cutting initiatives.
Benefits
- B2B contractor arrangement with 25 days of non-working time plus Polish bank holidays.
- Contract of Employment (UoP) option with 26 days of holiday plus Polish bank holidays.
- Learning and Development budget of £5,000 GBP.
- Mental health support and therapy through Spectrum Life.
- Optional self-funded private healthcare through Luxmed and Multisport for B2B contractors.
- Private healthcare insurance through Luxmed and Multisport for employees.
- Company pension and 10 days of company sick pay at 100% salary.
- Monthly wellbeing allowance through Juno.
- Top-spec work equipment, including MacOS or Windows devices and additional monitors or peripherals.
- Interview process includes a Talent chat, Lead Hirer interview, live AI skills assessment, values interview with the CPTO, and CEO meeting.
About hyperexponential
hyperexponential builds an AI-driven underwriting and pricing platform for commercial property and casualty insurers, used by underwriters, actuaries, and portfolio leaders. The SaaS system governs decision logic, models complex risks, and plugs into carrier workflows; top global carriers use it for underwriting decisions across $75B+ in annual premium. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, the company is privately held.