Product Engineer

NOUS; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative start-up is seeking a Product Engineer to enhance their intelligent assistant that simplifies household management. This role involves building a web application that guides users through their bills and household admin, leveraging a tech stack that includes Typescript, React, and Node.js. With a focus on creating a positive social impact, this position offers the chance to work on exciting projects that directly benefit users across the UK. Join a passionate team dedicated to delivering scalable and practical solutions that save time and money for households. If you're driven and ready to tackle real-world problems, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Erfahrung in der Nutzung von Typescript, React, Node.js und GraphQL.
• Gute Kenntnisse der Datenflüsse und des State Managements in Webanwendungen.

Responsibilities

• Teilnahme an der Produktstrategie und den Unternehmenszielen.
• Entwicklung von Backend- und Frontend-Diensten.

Skills

Typescript

React

Node.js

GraphQL

State Management

Clean Code

Empathy

Problem Solving

Ambiguity Tolerance

Job description

Nous is an intelligent assistant that helps households manage their bills, saving them money and time. We’re a fast-growing well-funded start-up led by experienced entrepreneurs on a mission to make people’s lives simpler and fairer.

We're freeing Nous members from a lifetime of admin and saving them money. We're already loved by our users such as Rob and Christian.

Over a hundred thousand people used our free tools during the cost-of-living crisis. We’re now rolling out our paid, smart-household management service through a variety of channels – including employers who want to help their teams save hundreds (sometimes thousands) of pounds by using Nous.

We’ve got some really exciting projects coming up that you could be involved in! These include:

1. Building integrations with email providers and LLM APIs to extract relevant documents and provide AI-enabled insights on users' household bills
2. Developing long-running workflows that orchestrate a combination of automated and operational tasks and enable the process of switching users to new, better providers of household services
3. Implementing Open Banking features that help users monitor payments and sneaky price rises
4. Extending our concurrent task management and recommendation technology, simplifying and guiding users through the process of finding the best deals
5. Adding personalised calendar integration, so that users won't forget any significant dates for their household

We’ve thought carefully about how to ensure our product and business has a significant positive social impact and we’re proud that we’re officially a B Corp. This means we’ve been formally accredited for our commitment to exceptionally high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability. We also regularly lead consumer advocacy campaigns, including initiatives to increase the uptake of broadband social tariffs and crack down on telecoms companies' unfair mid-contract price hikes.

If you’d like to help liberate UK households from a lifetime of administrative drudgery, we want to hear from you!

The role

We’re looking for a Product Engineer to join our team, to help us build a world-class product that will be regularly used by millions of people across the UK. The product includes the web application that guides our users through the complex world of bills and household admin and acts as their interface to our management service, as well as all the behind-the-scenes capabilities needed to orchestrate and deliver that service - actually saving our users money and time.

We’ve optimised our stack to minimise infrastructure overhead and are embracing Typescript to provide us with type-safety all the way from the database to the client. We use Typescript, React, GraphQL, Prisma and Node.js, for example, and we're always open to trying new things.

As part of our passionate cross-functional team, you will be:

1. An active part of our high-context engineering team taking the lead on projects
2. Actively contributing to product strategy and wider company goals
3. Playing an important role in shaping how our engineering team grows and the technology we use
4. Promoting best practices and a collaborative environment
5. Developing across the stack, building and managing both backend and frontend services
6. Building resilient, robust and scalable integrations with third-party APIs

About you

The ideal candidate has...

1. Experience using Typescript, React (or any other JS framework: Vue.js, Angular or React-Native), Node.js and GraphQL
2. A good understanding of data flows and state management in the context of a web application
3. A passion for clean, practical and scalable code
4. A well-developed empathy for how others experience the world
5. A love for building products that help solve real problems for real people
6. A very high tolerance for ambiguity and is highly driven

Bonus points if you're particularly interested in or have experience in:

1. Practical applications of GenAI
2. Orchestration of long-running processes

If you think you might be a great fit for the role but you don’t tick every box - we’d still love to have a chat!