Remote Lead Product Engineer: AI-Driven SaaS

Apply Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Apply Recruitment is recruiting a Lead Product Engineer for a fully remote UK role. You will shape product strategy with a customer-first mindset while delivering robust, scalable software built on PHP, Laravel and AWS.

The position emphasises product thinking, maintainability and responsible AI-enabled tooling in a fast-growing SaaS environment. You’ll own features end-to-end, collaborate with stakeholders and continuously improve engineering practices, architecture and design patterns to meet

Qualifications

• Experience in product-led engineering with customer focus.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, well-tested solutions.
• Strong PHP/Laravel/AWS development background.

Responsibilities

• Own complex features from problem to delivery.
• Balance technical depth with product thinking.
• Make prudent engineering trade-offs.
• Challenge approaches when better options exist.
• Communicate ideas clearly with product and non-technical teams.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

AWS

Product thinking

Customer empathy

AI tooling

Technical decision making

Communication

Software design patterns

Architecture principles

Ownership

Tools

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Job description

Apply Recruitment is recruiting a Lead Product Engineer for a fully remote UK role. You will shape product strategy with a customer-first mindset while delivering robust, scalable software built on PHP, Laravel and AWS.

The position emphasises product thinking, maintainability and responsible AI-enabled tooling in a fast-growing SaaS environment. You’ll own features end-to-end, collaborate with stakeholders and continuously improve engineering practices, architecture and design patterns to meet