Product Engineer - ilert GmbH [Remote] — Cologne
<p>ilert builds incident management and alerting software used by engineering teams worldwide. We are a bootstrapped and profitable SaaS company. Over 90% of our code is now AI-generated, your job is to direct it, not type it. We are looking for Product Engineers who own their domain end-to-end: propose features, build them, measure their impact, and iterate.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Own a product domain end-to-end: propose features, build them, measure their impact, iterate</li> <li>Ship production code daily using AI-native development tools (>90% of our code is AI-generated — your job is to direct it, not type it)</li> <li>Talk to customers, study usage analytics, and turn insights into product improvements</li> <li>Work in 2-week "bets" — fast cycles with real production deployments at the end of every sprint</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>3+ years of software engineering experience (backend, frontend, or full-stack)</li> <li>You've shipped features end-to-end and cared about whether users actually used them</li> <li>You're comfortable with ambiguity — we'll give you a domain, not a spec</li> <li>You use AI tools aggressively and see them as leverage, not a crutch</li> <li>Experience with incident management, DevOps, or on-call tooling is a plus but not required</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Agentic AI Frontier:</strong> You’ll be at the forefront of the AI-SRE revolution, building real-world Human-AI collaboration patterns.</li> <li><strong>Real ownership</strong>: you decide what to build in your domain, not just how to build it.</li> <li><strong>Hybrid Freedom:</strong> Join us in our gorgeous <strong>Rheinauhafen office</strong> (3 days a week) with a world-class roof terrace; work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays.</li> <li><strong>Focus > Meetings:</strong> We protect "Maker Time." We minimize syncs and favor asynchronous writing and tools like Loom and Notion.</li> <li>Direct access to CEO and CTO.</li> </ul> <p>We do not n
<p>ilert builds incident management and alerting software used by engineering teams worldwide. We are a bootstrapped and profitable SaaS company. Over 90% of our code is now AI-generated, your job is to direct it, not type it. We are looking for Product Engineers who own their domain end-to-end: propose features, build them, measure their impact, and iterate.</p> <h2>Tasks</h2> <ul> <li>Own a product domain end-to-end: propose features, build them, measure their impact, iterate</li> <li>Ship production code daily using AI-native development tools (>90% of our code is AI-generated — your job is to direct it, not type it)</li> <li>Talk to customers, study usage analytics, and turn insights into product improvements</li> <li>Work in 2-week "bets" — fast cycles with real production deployments at the end of every sprint</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements</h2> <ul> <li>3+ years of software engineering experience (backend, frontend, or full-stack)</li> <li>You've shipped features end-to-end and cared about whether users actually used them</li> <li>You're comfortable with ambiguity — we'll give you a domain, not a spec</li> <li>You use AI tools aggressively and see them as leverage, not a crutch</li> <li>Experience with incident management, DevOps, or on-call tooling is a plus but not required</li> </ul> <h2>Benefits</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Agentic AI Frontier:</strong> You’ll be at the forefront of the AI-SRE revolution, building real-world Human-AI collaboration patterns.</li> <li><strong>Real ownership</strong>: you decide what to build in your domain, not just how to build it.</li> <li><strong>Hybrid Freedom:</strong> Join us in our gorgeous <strong>Rheinauhafen office</strong> (3 days a week) with a world-class roof terrace; work from home on Tuesdays and Thursdays.</li> <li><strong>Focus > Meetings:</strong> We protect "Maker Time." We minimize syncs and favor asynchronous writing and tools like Loom and Notion.</li> <li>Direct access to CEO and CTO.</li> </ul> <p>We do not n