Senior Product Engineer

Beam; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous EMI-qualifying share options

Therapy and coaching access

Financial well-being coach

25 days holiday with extra Christmas days

Remote working for up to 6 weeks

6-week sabbatical eligibility after 3 years

Nursery scheme

Healthcare cover

Enhanced parental leave

WellBeam budget for development activities

Gym membership

Pension scheme

Free meditation app subscription

Discounted bike and tech products

Job summary

A leading social impact organization in London seeks senior software engineers to join their growing team. You will help develop technology that empowers caseworkers and enhances client support. The ideal candidate has experience with modern tech stacks, including Ruby on Rails, and thrives in cross-functional teams. This role offers competitive salaries, significant autonomy, and the chance to contribute to meaningful work that has a real-world impact. Join us to shape the future of our impactful products and drive positive change.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex software systems, both frontend and backend.
• Strong understanding of scalable architecture and data structures.
• Ability to choose the right tools for specific tasks.

Responsibilities

• Build technology for the future, both infrastructure and front-end.
• Collaborate with product, design, and analytics on new features.
• Develop internal tools to enhance efficiency.

Skills

Product mindset

Ruby on Rails

Infrastructure and backend experience

Frontend technologies

Collaboration in cross-functional teams

Psychological safety

Tools

AWS

PostgresSQL

OpenAI & Claude for LLM interfacing

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 50,000 frontline workers across the UK are now using Magic Notes regularly to deliver faster, more human-centred support. We’re also launching globally, helping practitioners across the USA, EU, and Australia make a difference.

The opportunity at Beam

We’re looking for Senior (and above) software engineers with a product-mindset to join 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. We’re solving some hard problems that aren’t just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us.

What you’ll be doing

• 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?

• 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

• 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

• 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 ethnic minority 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 ethnic minority candidates and/or those who’ve experienced social disadvantage.

Application process

We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview 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 Ben, our VP Engineering

3. 1 hour technical test with two of our Senior Engineers

4. 1 hour systems design interview with two of our Senior Engineers

5. 30 minute product and cultural interview with one of our founders

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

• 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.

Reasonable adjustments:

Beam is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive work environment for all employees. This policy extends to our hiring practices.

We recognise that some candidates may need additional support during their hiring process to give them the best chance of being a success. To ensure that all candidates have an equitable opportunity during their process, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments where required.

If you require a reasonable adjustment to be made during your process, please let your Talent Partner know. We encourage you to share this information, but there is no obligation to do so.

Please be reassured that any reasonable adjustment requests will not be taken into account when making a decision about your candidacy.