Senior Product Engineer

Kernel; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in software development is seeking a Senior Product Engineer to join their team in London. This role involves enhancing back-end infrastructure, taking initiative in a dynamic startup environment. The ideal candidate should have substantial experience in backend engineering and enjoy working autonomously within a small team.

Benefits

Working directly with the founding team

Free dinner when working past 6 pm

Equity options

Ability to work abroad for 2-weeks a year

Regular team celebrations

Enhanced Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Strong experience in backend engineering with T-shaped skillset.
• Ability to adapt in a low-structure environment.
• Experience working in early-stage startups is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own and enhance the back-end infrastructure.
• Work closely with the engineering team on product development.
• Automate processes and improve systems continuously.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data handling

AWS

Kubernetes

Autonomous work

Education

6+ years of software engineering experience

Experience in earlier stage startups

Job description

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You’re a well-versed “T-shaped” product engineer with a spike in backend engineering. You’ll be working with the product and engineering team on building the product in general, but will help support our existing infrastructure, ensuring we can scale in an efficient manner. You don’t have to be a DevOps wizard, but some experience working with AWS and Kubernetes would very helpful.

You’re adaptable, often taking initiative to identify and tackle tasks autonomously, and you enjoy making valuable contributions at pace. The lean nature of the team means you thrive in a low-structure environment, and having the ability to communicate clearly is very important.

You would ideally have the following:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience working in an early stage start-up
• A well-rounded product engineering toolkit
• The ability to work independently and autonomously
• The ability to operate in a small team with shifting priorities
• Some experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience working with large volumes of data

It would be a plus if you also have experience in:

• LLM experience, such as building RAG-models and prompt engineering and familiarity with the main foundation models on the market
• Some front-end experience

What you'll be doing

Kernel provides customization at scale, which means we process millions of accounts, collect terabytes of data, and run tens of thousands of executions in parallel.

Your role will be to own our back-end infrastructure - everything from AWS to our workflow automations in n8n - helping us scale from $1M to $10M ARR.

We are still in early stages of building out our infrastructure which means you have the opportunity to play a key role in shaping what we build and how we build it.

More specifically you will be:

• Working on ensuring a world-class, scalable back-end infrastructure.
• Working daily with the team to move us toward our next goal
• Rapidly shipping features to users and to our internal team
• Continuously evaluating our code, infrastructure, and processes to see if they meet our needs, always looking for ways to improve
• Automating our manual processes
• Sharing feedback on roadmap direction and ideas on bets to place / potential solutions

This role may not be for you if…

• You need lots of structure
• You’ll only ship pixel-perfect results
• You need a fleshed-out spec to code
• You’re heavily indexed on DevOps and have spent less time on product engineering

️ This role is definitely not for you if ...

• You prefer working remote or hybrid
• You don't enjoy the intensity of an early-stage startup
• You have side hustles or other projects
• You want to manage a team

Company Benefits

• Working directly with the founding team
• Free dinner when working past 6 pm
• Equity: Option grant on employee-friendly terms
• Ability to work abroad for 2-weeks a year + flexibility during the working week for appointments (or anything else)
• Regular team, office, and company-wide celebrations
• Enhanced Parental Leave

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Engineering

• Industries

  Software Development

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