Open Role Β· Senior Β· Remote-First

What to expect as Product Engineer
at epilot

We're not hiring task executors. We're hiring product engineers who tell us what to build. The rules of software development have changed β€” code is cheap, iteration is cheap. The biggest risk now is being too slow.

🌍 Remote-firstWork from anywhere πŸ€– AI-first developmentWe use agents to move faster ⚑ Energy transitionSolar, EV, heat pumps & more 🏒 Cologne HQOptional office in Cologne

The rules of software development have changed

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Energy companies on platform
Across DACH region and growing
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Cost-to-serve reduction
Avg. across our customer base
360Β°
Sales, service & grid β€” fully digitalized
From initial inquiry to ongoing support β€” efficient processes, flexible market launches, happy customers

We're building the platform that powers the energy transition. Utilities, installers, and energy service providers use epilot to digitize their customer journeys β€” from solar installations to EV charging to heat pumps.

It's a complex, regulated, fast-moving industry. And we're right in the middle of it.

Code is cheap. Prototypes are cheap. Experimentation is cheap. The biggest risk is no longer building the wrong thing β€” it's being too slow while others iterate their way to the right thing.

We're a lean team of senior engineers who've internalized this. We use AI agents to move faster, automate what used to take weeks, and focus human judgment on the problems that actually matter.


The profile

Describing you

Click the traits that describe you β€” see how well you'd fit.

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Product Engineer

You care about the outcome, not the output. Business impact over technical elegance β€” though you can do both.

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Self-Directed

You don't wait for a ticket. You identify what matters, propose it, and build it.

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Uncomfortably Fast

By normal company standards. You ship rough, learn fast, and refine in production.

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AI-Fluent

You use AI coding agents as a force multiplier and still write line by line when the situation demands it.

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A True Owner

You design the API, build it e2e, deploy it, monitor it, fix it when it crashes. You built it, you own it.

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Pragmatic

Honest about tradeoffs, not precious about your code. You show up with a proposal, not just a flag.

Click the traits that describe you

What to expect

Your first six months

Clear expectations, no surprises. Click each phase to expand.

Week 1
Land & ship
Pair, ship, connect
β†’ Pair with a colleague and ship something β€” small is fine, working is the point
β†’ Start learning the business: who our customers are, what we're building toward, why it matters
β†’ Connect with the team and start contributing from day one
Month 1
Own a topic
First ownership, first impact
β†’ Have your name on a topic β€” be the main driver from refinement to delivery, already shipping the first iteration
β†’ Deep understanding of the codebase and how our services connect
β†’ Enough domain knowledge to push back on bad ideas β€” including ours
Month 3–6
Undisputed owner
Drive metrics, raise the bar
β†’ The go-to person who spots problems before they're reported and fixes them before they're assigned
β†’ Shipped something that visibly moved a metric: adoption, reliability, performance, or revenue
β†’ Operate fully autonomously β€” you know when to decide and when to align
β†’ Raise the bar for everyone around you β€” a multiplier through your work, reviews, and feedback

How we work

The work culture

Engineering here is a leadership function. No backlog handed to you, no ops team to hand off to.

You tell us what to build

No managed backlog. You understand the business, talk to customers, and come with proposals. Project Managers empower you, designers help with how things should ideally be.

You build it, you run it

No ops team to hand things off to. You own deployment, monitoring, and incidents β€” exactly why we build things carefully.

AI-first development

We use agents to accelerate the boring: bug fixing, test writing, standard feature work. That frees you for work requiring real judgment.

API-first always

Design the contract before writing a line. OpenAPI, clear interfaces, no tribal knowledge required to integrate with your service.

Ship early, iterate fast

Code wins arguments. A working feature beats an architecture diagram every time. Rent over build wherever possible.

Direct feedback culture

Feedback is direct, praise is public, mistakes are owned. Remote-first, async-friendly β€” we write things down and keep meetings short.


Just so you know

Things you won't be doing here

Some behaviors that simply don't work in this team.

βœ• Waiting for a perfect spec before starting
βœ• Saying "that's not my service" when time is of the essence
βœ• Raising problems without a proposed solution
βœ• Using "almost done" as a status update
βœ• Needing to be told what to work on next
βœ• Using AI as a crutch β€” or refusing to use it at all
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Ready to own it?

We're a lean team doing big things at the intersection of software and the energy transition. If this resonates, let's talk.

βœ“ AI-first βœ“ Remote-first βœ“ Senior team