
Lead Product Engineer
Beam
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £125,000 - £140,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Leading a focussed team of 4-5 talented engineers to build out our AI offerings in MagicNotes - from process to mentoring to technical architecture
- Writing code - this is a hands on role and you’ll spend around 60% of your time coding
- Help build our technology for the future - be it infrastructure or front-end. We value generalists.
- Work with product, design, commercial and analytics to figure out what new features to build within our product
- Building internal tools - for our team to help as many people as efficiently as possible.
- Using the latest generative AI tooling to empower our caseworkers to focus on what matters, helping those in need.
- Get deep into the power of the LLMs that exist and figure out ideal optimisations across our systems with them
Requirements
- You'll want to move into leadership or have experience leading a team and are keen to build a high-performance engineering culture
- We are happy to consider people without explicit management experience
- Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks
- We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Turbo, TailwindCSS, GCP, PostgresSQL, Typescript and React
- React + Typescript on the client via InertiaJS to work with Rails
- OpenAI & Claude for LLM interfacing
- We are not wedded to them and will rapidly evolve over the next 3-6 months with the right technologies
- Has worked in complex software systems - both front-end and back-end and understands the importance of good data structures, a scalable architecture and constantly evolving tech stack
- You care about the “right tool for the right job” and pick the pragmatic options when building software
- Enjoys working in cross functional teams - PMs, UX, Designers and Data
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
- You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done attitude
- You'll contribute to fostering a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, collaboration and continuous improvement within the team through participation in retrospectives and feedback
- You're passionate about social mobility
Benefits
- Generous EMI-qualifying share options
- Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
- Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
- Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
- Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
- Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
- Nursery scheme through Gogeta
- Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
- Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
- £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
- Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
- Pension scheme where we contribute 3% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
- Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
- Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme
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Hard Skills & Tools
Ruby on RailsTurboTailwindCSSGCPPostgresSQLTypescriptReactInertiaJSLLMssoftware architecture
Soft Skills
leadershiphigh-performance engineering culturecross-functional teamworkproduct mindsetdata-informed decision makingentrepreneurial attitudepsychological safetyinclusivitycollaborationcontinuous improvement