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[Careers](https://awardspring.com/careers)

# Senior Product Engineer

-   Full-Time
-   Chicago, IL
-   Product Engineering

$135,000 - $175,000 / year

[Apply for this role](https://awardspring.com/careers/senior-product-engineer/apply)

## Who we are

AwardSpring is an established, growing SaaS company that partners with hundreds of colleges, universities, and foundations across the US and Canada to award scholarships and manage their donors. We complete the virtuous cycle of giving, getting, and giving again, on a mature, multi-tenant platform, with a small, focused team.

## About this role

You're a serious AI-native engineer. You run agents daily, you've built workflows and probably a skill or two of your own, and you push the tooling past its defaults. You own whole areas end-to-end and make sound product and design calls without a net. You're not a designer, but your instincts are good enough to run autonomously. If you've been doing your best work outside your day job because your environment can't keep up, this is where it becomes the work.

## How we work

We're an AI-native product team. Nearly 100% of the code in our product is AI-generated, and every IC (engineer, PM, designer) ships features end-to-end with agentic tooling. The lines between disciplines are intentionally blurred: PMs ship code, engineers make product calls, designers prototype in production. We hire for fluency in agentic development, not time in any one stack.

If you've been building this way on nights and weekends because your day job won't let you (rigid stack, no token budget, "that's not how we do things here"), this is the place where it's the actual job.

## What you'll do

-   Own significant areas end-to-end, problem to production
-   Run and refine your own agent workflows, and raise the team's bar
-   Make the product and design judgment calls your area needs, autonomously
-   Mentor newer builders

## Who you are

-   Roughly 5–8 years engineering, now fluent and fast with agentic tooling
-   You've built your own agents, skills, and workflows, and have opinions about your setup
-   Autonomous on product and design calls
-   Probably already the person pushing AI-native practice where you are

## What we give you

-   Top-tier AI tooling with unlimited token budgets
-   Day-one access to the latest models as they ship
-   A mature, multi-tenant production codebase with real users and real stakes
-   Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave

## Our values

ACTION

Take initiative, be accountable, share what you know.

DETERMINATION

Simplify and improve, get past obstacles with creativity and persistence.

HUMANITY

Empathy and kindness in every interaction.

IMPROVEMENT

Grow daily, add value to clients and teammates.

## A note on workspace

Hybrid, based in our West Loop / Fulton Market office in Chicago, roughly three days a week.

## AI in our hiring

We use AI tools to assist in screening applications and assessing fit. Final hiring decisions are made by humans. Prefer a review without AI assistance? Email our hiring team at [careers@awardspring.com](mailto:careers@awardspring.com) to request it. It will not disadvantage you.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

AwardSpring is an equal opportunity employer and hires without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We're committed to an inclusive, harassment-free workplace.

[Apply for this role](https://awardspring.com/careers/senior-product-engineer/apply)