Lead Product Engineer

Beam Up Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive AI product development and lead a high-performance engineering team. Candidates should possess strong coding skills and a passion for creating impactful solutions. The position offers significant autonomy in a collaborative environment, focusing on the delivery of essential features to frontline workers. Join us for an impactful and rewarding career!

Benefits

Generous EMI-qualifying share options

Access to therapy and coaching

Generous holiday allowance

Remote work flexibility

Healthcare cover

Qualifications

• Experience in leading engineering teams.
• Strong coding skills required.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to enhance AI features.
• Spend 60% of your time coding.
• Collaborate with product and design teams.

Skills

Leadership

AI knowledge

Coding

Cross-functional teamwork

Product mindset

Tools

Ruby on Rails

AWS

PostgresSQL

OpenAI

Job description

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 Magic Notes product, helping case workers save over 8 hours of admin per week. From social workers and NHS clinicians to mental health practitioners and safeguarding specialists, over 20,000 frontline workers across the UK are now using Magic Notes regularly to deliver faster, more human-centred support.

About the role

We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer, reporting to the CTO, with a product-mindset and a passion for AI to lead one of 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. As a Lead Engineer we are looking for someone who wants to grow in managing a team of engineers and lead the technical vision of the team. We're solving some hard problems that aren't just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us.

We have 2 distinct products at the moment - MagicNotes and Beamforce. One is already leveraging AI extensively - we are one of the first EU companies to be using OpenAI in their EU cluster - and the other we are looking to level up and bring into the future with AI to help our services team with their work.

What you'll be doing

• 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

Why is this exciting?

• You will have the flexibility to run the team as you see fit and bring in other great engineers from companies to build an amazing team
• 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
• AI is moving so unbelievably fast that you'll be constantly looking at opportunities to integrate more into our core offerings
• 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

• 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, Phlex, AlpineJS, TailwindCSS, AWS, PostgresSQL to name a few technologies.
  • 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 global majority 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 global majority candidates and/or those who've experienced social disadvantage.

Application process

We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage 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 David our CTO
3. 1.5 hour technical test with one of Beams senior engineers
4. 1 hour product and cultural interview with one of Beams product managers and a member of the engineering/design team

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.

Perks

• Generous EMI-qualifying share options
• Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
• 1:1 workplace coaching with More Happi
• 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

Start your journey to a more impactful career today. We're excited to hear from you.