Lead Product Engineer

Our Product Engineers play a crucial role in our user and product experience. You will be focused on solving innovative end-to-end product challenges in the best manner for our customers. Whilst you may have a natural inclination towards the backend or frontend, we expect you to have a good breadth of knowledge across the stack. You'll delve into all aspects of our tech stack and product portfolio, having meaningful impact on our customers, and the overall success of the business.

As a Lead engineer, you'll typically be anchored to a single squad - often in a Tech Lead position - but you'll be expected to influence across all of our squads, and help to set high standards and consistency across the organisation. You should expect to operate at varying levels of detail across the stack and may have to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

You’ll be collaborating on a daily basis with designers, product managers, other engineers and the wider business to create a great product experience and continuously ship value to our users. You'll be expected to mentor others within your squad and instil extremely high quality bars and effective modes of operation across our technology organisation. You will also have input into our engineering strategy.

In the role you will

• Collaborate to deliver an exceptional product. From understanding initial needs to crafting outstanding solutions, you'll work directly with product managers and designers to bring ideas to life. And by that, we don’t just mean implement requirements, we expect our engineers to understand our market and customers in order to be able to influence product strategy and challenge assumptions.
• Develop high quality systems and code. Working across our stack, you’ll design and develop the systems that underpin the Risk Ledger product and advance us towards our vision.
• Move fast, with an eye for quality. You enjoy moving fast while maintaining an extremely high quality bar through testing, automation, discipline, consistency and best practice, whilst treading a careful line in pragmatism and cost-benefit analysis.
• Enjoy being a generalist. We are building an amazing and talented team from a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets. Our engineers are empowered to work in all areas of our platform, and across all areas of the business, directly contributing to the wider success of the company.
• Nurture the talent and growth of the team. You will be able to mentor junior - senior level colleagues to level up both hands-on technical and architectural decision making skills.
• Have an impact. We're a growing startup - so you’ll have the opportunity to get involved in areas outside of your day to day role.

You’ll have

• Worked in multiple engineering teams focused on building a customer focused SaaS product; weighing up delivering value to clients against technical excellence.
• Deep experience with either backend or frontend development.
• Backend language preferably Go; or something like Java, C# or Python
• Frontend: Typescript preferably with VueJS or React
• In either case, reasonable additional experience with:
• SQL and 'NoSQL' Data stores, with deep knowledge of data model design
• Containers and Orchestration: Docker / Kubernetes
• Cloud providers and cloud native services, preferably AWS
• Event driven systems, and messaging services such as SQS/SNS, Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience being the lead in the design of non-trivial solutions, working with others to implement.
• A desire to deeply understand our customers and the problems they face, in order to improve their day-to-day experience.
• An ability to thrive in ambiguity, tackling problems that might not be well defined and without obvious solutions, and comfortable operating autonomously.
• A keen sense of curiosity, with a natural drive to learn and grow.
• A passion to work collaboratively with others. We like to work as a team, not a collection of individuals and we expect you to have the same mindset. Passion for pairing, mobbing and other XP principles are a strong plus.

You might have

• Participated in mentoring other members of your team. While this role will be hands-on technical as an individual contributor, we do expect Lead Engineers to take on some nurturing responsibility, and general tech leadership.
• A startup/scale-up background. We’re not concerned if you have not worked in this environment, as long as you are willing to get stuck into the ambiguity of an early stage company.
• Experience of data processing, machine learning, AI or integrating large datasets into a product.
• Worked with observability solutions (Kibana, Grafana, Sentry).

Company Benefits

• 💰Competitive base salary
• 📈Generous EMI equity package
• 👌3% employer match on pension
• ✈️24 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 🏖Additional 30 days of unpaid leave per year to use as you wish
• 🏥Private healthcare with AXA Insurance - including enhanced mental wellbeing coverage
• 🏠Hybrid model of work, typically 2 days in office
• 👶Enhanced family (parental) leave - gender-neutral policy, 12 weeks paid leave
• 👪5 days Caretaker's leave
• 😷Enhanced occupational sick pay
• 💻£500 wfh budget
• 📚All the learning resources and books you want to aid in your personal development
• 🎉 Regular socials to unwind and have some fun