Junior Product Engineer

Right at Home UK; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading homecare provider in the UK is seeking a Junior Product Engineer. This remote role requires collaboration with a small team to resolve customer issues and take ownership of the software lifecycle. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, knowledge of OOP, relational databases, and experience with tools like AzureDevOps and Figma. The position offers a salary of £25-30k, with various benefits including annual leave and a salary sacrifice pension scheme.

Benefits

23 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Salary sacrifice company pension

Salary Sacrifice EV scheme

Contribution to private healthcare

Birthday leave

Qualifications

• Knowledge of OOP and relational databases.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Confidence in challenging unaligned ideas.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve complex customer issues.
• Take ownership across the software lifecycle.
• Learn and navigate the MariaDB database.

Skills

Knowledge of OOP

Knowledge of relational databases

Strong technical acumen

Experience in AzureDevOps

Experience in Figma

Experience in Python

Experience in Typescript

Experience in Git

Experience in MariaDB

Education

Computer related degree

Job description

Junior Product Engineer

Location: Remote with requirement to travel 4-weekly to Birmingham for team meetings.

Hours: Full-time 9-5 Mon-Fri

Salary: £25-30k DoE.

Who are we?

Right at Home UK is one of the country’s leading premium homecare provider delivering high-quality care to vulnerable adults in their own homes.

We are evolving our in-house care management solution, RightCareHQ (RCHQ). RCHQ is built on a Cloud based Platform, with a view to imminently expand further using Next.js and LLM models to support AI-first processes.

Benefits:

• 23 days annual leave (increasing with time served) plus bank holidays.
• Salary sacrifice company pension.
• Salary Sacrifice EV scheme.
• Contribution to private healthcare.
• Birthday leave.

The role

• Reporting to the Technical Lead, you’ll be working in a small, fast-paced team. Day-to-day, you will:
• Investigate and resolve complex customer issues by tracing root causes through data, process, and system logic.
• Take ownership across the software lifecycle, especially in the planning and design phases, with support from the team to accommodate your learning and development.
• Learn and navigate our MariaDB database to facilitate problem-solving, planning, and designing new roadmap features.
• Write acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps and design user interfaces in Figma.
• Support with the definition, specification, and validation of new features end-to-end.
• Challenge assumptions and propose novel solutions to complex problems.
• Use AI to improve the quality and efficiency of your outputs.

Skillsand qualifications

• Knowledge of OOP
• Knowledge of relational databases
• Strong technical acumen
• Computer related degree not essential but should have evidence of practice
• Experience in AzureDevOps, Figma, Python, Typescript, Git, MariaDB a bonus

About you

• You bring strong analytical thinking, enjoy solving complex problems, and quickly get to the root of issues.
• You apply confident, evidence-based reasoning and are comfortable challenging ideas when something does not align.
• You take full ownership of your work, follow tasks through to completion, and ask for support when needed.
• You maintain exceptional attention to detail, turning ambiguity into structured plans and communicating clearly and directly to drive outcomes.