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Staff Product Engineer

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • You will:
  • **Own 2–3 high-leverage bets per year**, not just projects.
  • **Turn fuzzy problems into clear plans.**
  • **Ship small, end-to-end slices every 1–2 weeks.**
  • Be a **domain owner** in one or more critical areas (e.g. front-end, workflows/Temporal, infrastructure, agentic-AI core, data modelling).
  • **Design “paved roads” for a small, fast team.**
  • Act as a **multiplier for other engineers.**
  • Create **written clarity** around the work you lead.
  • You’ll report directly to the CTO and work closely with Product, Ops, and rest of leadership. There aren’t many layers: how you frame problems and ship solutions will directly influence what the company does next.
  • In your first 6–12 months, you might:
  • **Re-design how new members see value.**
  • **Invent and roll out a standard pattern for long-running switches.**
  • **Own the front-end platform or another core domain.**
  • Throughout, you’ll be shipping code regularly, not just writing docs or drawing diagrams.

Requirements

  • You’re **hungry and product-obsessed**: you care as much about the member outcome and UX as you do about the elegance of the system behind it.
  • You’ve led **fuzzy, cross-functional bets** before – pulling together product, ops and engineering to ship something that really moved a metric.
  • You get frustrated when you see **wasted effort or avoidable complexity**, and you naturally design paved roads so others don’t trip on the same things twice.
  • You’re happiest when you’re **hands-on in code**, but you also enjoy writing the doc, drawing the diagram, and bringing others with you.
  • You think in **systems and primitives**, not just features: contracts, workflows, failure modes, observability.
  • You enjoy **mentoring, growing, and unblocking** other engineers, can demonstrate that you’ve been effective at it, and feel a bit restless if you’re *just* shipping your own tickets.
  • You’re comfortable with our stack, and can demonstrate expertise on key parts of it.
  • You prefer a **small, sharp, in-person team** over a huge org with lots of pre-defined processes, and you’re itching for a “big unlock” moment to have outsized impact.
Benefits
  • 🏢 A great office set up for lots of collaborative working. We already need more whiteboards
  • 💻 The equipment / setup / training you need to do your best work (and of course, AI subscriptions, including Claude Code Max tier)
  • 🤝 A high-context environment with lots of exposure to the big decisions - be in the room when it happens (literally)
  • 🏡 Flexibility around remote work. If you sometimes just need to get your head down, that's fine
  • ☕ __Very good coffee__
  • 🍽️ A well-stocked kitchen (featuring a wildly popular toastie maker) so you can always make yourself a breakfast or light lunch on the house
  • 🎉 Informal social *every week*, something bigger every month, plus a set-piece event in the summer and again at Christmas - we're not robots!
  • ✈ 33 days paid holidays (including bank holidays)
  • 💊 Health and dental cash plans, including an employee assistance programme
  • 🚴 Travel benefits, (e.g., the cycle-to-work scheme)
  • 💰 A generous cash referral bonus if you introduce us to someone who joins the team
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
front-end developmentdata modellingcode shippingsystem designworkflow designobservabilityagentic-AIlong-running switchescross-functional collaborationUX design
Soft Skills
problem-solvingmentoringcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillshands-on codingproduct obsessionclarity in documentationteam collaborationcomplexity reduction