Senior Product Engineer

Howrecruit; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Howrecruit is building an ecosystem of AI-powered products. You will transform customer problems into practical software, focusing on robust backend services and APIs, with TypeScript for substantial frontend/backend work.

The role involves collaborating with customers, asking questions, and guiding the approach to deliver impactful software. The team plans to double over the next year, leveraging AI-native advantages and a strong PMF.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering skills with focus on building services, APIs and data flows.
• Demonstrated ability to ship software and take ownership of delivery.
• Willingness to ask questions, handle uncertainty and bring others into decisions.

Responsibilities

• Take meaningful features from customer problem to working software.
• Speak with customers to understand needs and influence approach.
• Build in TypeScript with substantial backend work and explore embedding AI into the product.

Skills

Backend development

APIs

TypeScript

AI in development

Customer communication

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

You enjoy building software. You also want to understand who it's for, what they need and why it's worth building.

If you'd like more responsibility for those decisions, this could be worth a conversation.

Help build an ecosystem of AI-powered products

This business is bringing together how companies make spending decisions, manage supplier relationships and move work forward.

The ambition is a connected family of products under one brand, replacing the fragmented processes that slow businesses down.

You'll help turn that vision into products customers use every day.

What you'll own

You'll take meaningful features and systems from an initial customer problem through to working software.

That includes speaking with customers, asking questions and influencing the approach. Engineers who can understand a business problem and explain their thinking will do well here.

You'll build in TypeScript, with substantial backend work and opportunities to embed AI directly into the product. You'll also use AI in your development workflow.

What you'll need

Strong backend engineering skills are a must. You should be comfortable building the services, APIs and data flows that make a product work reliably. This role needs more backend depth than occasional work alongside a primarily frontend role.

You've shipped software people use, taken ownership of delivery and made thoughtful technical decisions.

You don't need every detail laid out before you can start. You know how to ask questions, work through uncertainty and bring others into the conversation.

The company has great PMF and has the advantage of being AI Native, it's grabbing market share and running with it

Its engineering team plans to double over the next year. There's an established product to build from, with plenty of scope to shape what comes next.