Principal Product Engineer (up to £250k)

Dex; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Dex collaborates with a trusted partner to recruit a Principal Product Engineer in London. The role sets technical strategy for the engineering organisation, untangles cross-team risks, and stays hands-on with high-leverage production code shipped multiple times a day.

The position anchors the technical direction as AI capabilities are embedded in the core product, while mentoring senior engineers and shaping pragmatic roadmaps with executives.

Qualifikationen

• Proven track record defining architecture and technical strategy across multiple squads, not just an isolated team.
• Deep full-stack engineering foundations with experience scaling high-throughput production systems.
• Strong commercial and product instinct with ability to translate constraints into business decisions.
• Active technical fluency with AI and integrating model capabilities into product engineering.
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from central London.

Aufgaben

• Set the overarching technical architecture and engineering standards as AI capabilities are embedded across the core product.
• Identify and resolve systemic architectural risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies between squads.
• Write and deploy critical systems that scale globally, shipping to more than 100,000 active users daily.
• Partner with executive and cross-functional leadership to turn business goals into pragmatic technical roadmaps.
• Mentor senior engineers through system design reviews and hands-on pairing.

Kenntnisse

Architecture strategy

Full-stack engineering

Product instinct

AI capability

Hybrid work

Jobbeschreibung

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

The role

Over 120,000 frontline public-service workers across hundreds of organisations rely on this company's platform every day to handle real-time interpretation, note-taking, and call management. Backed by leading global tech founders and scaling rapidly, they are deploying production AI where system reliability directly affects people in crisis, converting high-friction civic administration into immediate human support.

As the product organisation expands, the hardest technical challenges no longer sit neatly within a single squad—they live in the seams between them. As Principal Product Engineer, you will set the technical strategy for the entire department, untangle systemic cross-team risks, and stay hands-on with high-leverage code shipping to production multiple times a day. This is not an ivory-tower architecture role isolated from delivery, nor is it a squad lead with a loftier title; it is the technical anchor for the entire engineering organisation.

The work

• Set the overarching technical architecture and engineering standards as AI capabilities are embedded across the core product.
• Identify and resolve systemic architectural risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies that sit between individual product squads.
• Write and deploy critical systems that scale globally, shipping to more than 100,000 active users multiple times a day in tight iteration cycles.
• Partner with executive and cross-functional leadership to turn business goals into pragmatic technical roadmaps.
• Mentor and raise the ceiling for the department's most senior engineers through system design reviews and hands-on pairing.

What You Bring

• Proven track record defining architecture and technical strategy across multiple squads, not just an isolated team.
• Deep full-stack engineering foundations with direct experience evolving and hardening high-throughput production systems under scale.
• Strong commercial and product instinct, with the communication clarity to advise executives and translate engineering constraints into business decisions.
• Active technical fluency with AI and a clear perspective on how modern model capabilities should be integrated into product engineering.
• Ability to work in a hybrid capacity from central London.