Senior Product Engineer

Beam

At Beam, you get to do work that matters for the world. We’re solving the world's toughest social problems with an incredible team, tech and AI. And we’re growing fast 🚀 It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. Join a company at the forefront of social impact, driving first-of-its-kind positive change. You’ll be part of a high-performance culture where you'll make a huge impact, rapidly progress your career, and truly enjoy your work. From top-tier coaching and personal development budgets to competitive salaries, we take care of everyone who works at Beam. We’ve already seen incredible growth from our Beam Notes product, helping frontline workers save over 8 hours of admin per week. From social workers and NHS clinicians to mental health practitioners and safeguarding specialists, nearly 100,000 frontline workers across the UK, US and Australia are now using Beam Notes regularly to deliver faster, more human-centred support. THE OPPORTUNITY AT BEAM We’re looking for Senior (and above) software engineers with a product-mindset to join our product teams to help build the future of Beam with the right technologies. It’s a passionate and growing team (doubled in size in 2024) and values autonomy, empowerment and bias-to-action. We want engineers who want to take responsibility for the product they are building and take part in every part of the product creation. We’re solving some hard problems that aren’t just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING * 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 WHY IS THIS EXCITING? * Our MagicNotes product is already used by thousands of case workers per day - you will have an opportunity to figure out the future of it or you’ll be designing and defining the future of our BeamForce product * You will have a high degree of autonomy working with other exceptional and like minded engineers and product people * You will see your features used by people who really need them - and see the amazing 5-star feedback we get in return for building these critical features WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR * Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks * We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and PostgreSQL running on GCP * React + Typescript on the client backed by our shadcn design system * 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 We have a strong preference for London-based engineers who can regularly meet the team to problem solve in person. We're committed to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion through our work as an organisation, and that starts with the team we build. 53% of the people we support are from ethnic minority backgrounds and 17% have disabilities. We believe we serve these people best when we’re a diverse and inclusive team. To that end, we particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority candidates and/or those who’ve experienced social disadvantage. APPLICATION PROCESS We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you. 1. 30 mins with our Talent team 2. 45 minute Interview with Ben, our VP Engineering 3. 1 hour technical test with two of our Senior Engineers 4. 1 hour systems design interview with two of our Senior Engineers 5. 30 minute product and cultural interview with one of our founders ABOUT BEAM Our team of 200+ embraces a hybrid working approach, enjoying 2-3 days of vibrant collaboration in our beautiful Shoreditch co-working space, fully equipped with rooftop views, an onsite barista and kitted out gym. We’ve picked up an armful of awards for our work, including one from our former Queen. We've also been named by WIRED as one of London's 10 hottest startups and by LinkedIn as a Top 15 UK Startup. Meanwhile, we've been covered in the media literally thousands of times, including the likes of The FT, BBC, TechCrunch, Forbes and The Guardian. We’re also proud to be backed by some of the world's leading tech investors and entrepreneurs, including the founders of Booking.com, Calm, Shazam and Dropbox. Start your journey to a more impactful career today. We're excited to hear from you. Reasonable adjustments: Beam is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive work environment for all employees. This policy extends to our hiring practices. We recognise that some candidates may need additional support during their hiring process to give them the best chance of being a success. To ensure that all candidates have an equitable opportunity during their process, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments where required. If you require a reasonable adjustment to be made during your process, please let your Talent Partner know. We encourage you to share this information, but there is no obligation to do so. Please be reassured that any reasonable adjustment requests will not be taken into account when making a decision about your candidacy.

Plain

Plain is redefining customer support for the next generation of B2B companies. We’re building the fastest, most powerful platform to help companies move beyond reactive support and build true customer relationships. Some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies - like Cursor, Raycast, and Granola - trust Plain to unify all customer interactions, enable faster team collaboration, and supercharge their workflows with AI. B2B customer support is undergoing a seismic shift. AI is transforming the way companies engage with customers, shifting support from a siloed function to a company-wide effort across Slack, Discord, and any other channel you talk to customers in. The old way - slow, manual, and disconnected - no longer works. This role is hybrid with 3 days a week in our London office. WHAT YOU'LL DO Engineering at Plain is about much more than moving tickets from left to right - it’s about owning and solving problems end to end, from infrastructure decisions to feature design to button copy. You will: * Help set product direction. You’ll contribute to both the technical architecture and the roadmap, balancing customer feedback with long-term product health. * Ship features end to end. You’ll scope, build, and launch product features that directly solve customer problems. We’re structured into the following teams right now: * Core Product: Own all customer-facing channels (Slack, Discord, Email, etc), core data models, and customer requests. You’ll balance moving fast to win customers with investing in strong foundations for the future. * Developer Infra: Build the tools that every engineer at Plain depends on to ship and operate the product. Your focus is on making the team faster, removing roadblocks before they happen, and ensuring everything we build is easy to run, debug, and control in production. * Shape our backend architecture. You’ll tackle some of our most complex challenges, from data modeling to high-performance reporting, and help set the standard for how we build across the company. * Create a stellar developer experience. From data pipelines to APIs, you’ll make sure Plain is not only great to use but also great to build on. THIS IS A GREAT FIT IF YOU… * Thrive in early ideation stages, love sharing work-in-progress, and enjoy the balance of making trade-offs in order to ship high impact products. * Are impact driven and motivated by seeing customers succeed. You measure the quality of your work by the end-experience of users, not the abstractions or cleanliness of the code. * Have a proven track record working for product-led companies, ideally in B2B SaaS. * You’re autonomous and able to prioritise your workload. You know when to take a shortcut and when to invest in long-term infrastructure. * Have experience working with distributed, serverless systems, and have worked on similar web applications with a high quality and performance bar before * Are equally at home in architectural conversations as you are in customer conversations. * Can learn new technologies and paradigms quickly and independently. THIS WON'T BE THE RIGHT ROLE IF YOU… * Are uncomfortable with ambiguity. We have some really exciting traction but are still at an early stage and are constantly learning and trying new things as our company grows. * Find learning about new technologies a key motivation for coming to work. We invest in what makes us productive but will prefer the known option to the experimental and novel. Postgres is great. * Are looking to manage others. We're firmly looking for someone who, for now, wants to be an individual contributor. * Expect all the perks of a big company. We’re a Series A startup and are competitive in what we offer at our stage, but it’s a different role and opportunity than working at an established tech company.

Risk Ledger

ABOUT US Risk Ledger is developing a network of connected organisations, all working together to defend against cybersecurity attacks in the supply chain. Organisations rely on us to establish trust, through sharing their security maturity and visualising the risks posed by their supply chain ecosystem. And we’re already trusted by customers like ASOS, British Airways, BAE Systems and the NHS. We are putting together an amazing and talented team from a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets to drive us towards our vision. Risk Ledger is built on the respect we have for one another and our users, united by our shared values and mission. Every one of us is still learning: it’s how we grow as individuals. We’re curious. We’re ambitious. And we’re humble and honest. At Risk Ledger, we aim high to find the best solutions we can and always put our users first. THE TEAM: You’ll join a cross-functional department of Software Engineers, Product Managers and Designers, all collaborating together with the wider business to achieve impactful product outcomes. Everyone is involved from day one in shaping opportunities that provide outsized value to both clients and suppliers on Risk Ledger, keeping our users as top priority. We care deeply about building the right thing, in order to fundamentally shift mindsets in the cybersecurity industry. We ship quickly & continuously in order to learn and iterate - whilst always pushing for the highest possible quality bar and keeping security and automation front and centre. The core of our stack is GoLang, AWS, and Vue.js, with modern design philosophies and a cloud-native approach. THIS ROLE 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 Senior engineer, you’ll be embedded in a squad, trusted to autonomously lead and own impact in your area with little oversight. You should expect to work across the full stack, taking ownership of mid-to-large initiatives and driving them through to completion. You’ll set a high standard in your squad through the quality of your work and your ability to coach and support those around you. 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 set a strong example within your squad, championing best practices and helping to level up the engineers around you. You will also contribute to shaping our engineering strategy and practices. 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. You’ll lead system design efforts, consistently producing high-quality, well-documented and thoroughly tested code that sets the standard for your squad. * 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. * Support the growth of those around you. You will mentor and coach junior and mid-level colleagues, helping them level up their hands-on technical skills, system design thinking and problem-solving approach. * 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 leading system design for non-trivial features or projects, evaluating trade-offs and ensuring alignment with team and business goals. * 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; * Experience mentoring or coaching other engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and confidence. * 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). The perks: * 💰Competitive base salary * 📈Generous EMI equity package * 👌Private pension * ✈️28 days annual leave + bank holidays * 🏖Additional 30 days of unpaid leave per year to use as you wish * 🎆Ad-hoc companywide time off over the festive period * 🏥Private healthcare with AXA Insurance - including enhanced mental wellbeing coverage * 🏠Hybrid working policy, typically 2-3 days in the 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   Salary range £90,000—£120,000 GBP