Staff Product Engineer

Gauthier Search; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic start-up as a Staff Product Engineer, where you'll drive product strategy and execution while mentoring a team. Help advance an AI productivity tool that integrates with Gmail, Outlook, and Zoom. Enjoy a fast-paced environment valuing autonomy and innovation as you work in London's thriving tech hub.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Pension

25 days annual leave

Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates

Qualifications

• Expert level understanding of Typescript and serverless architecture.
• Experience as staff or lead engineer in early-stage tech companies (<100 people).
• Ability to work autonomously and generate features based on analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution, monitor product metrics and customer feedback.
• Mentor and develop other product engineers, manage product area reliability.
• Utilize customer insights and quantitative data to prioritize product initiatives.

Skills

Typescript

Serverless Architecture

SQL

AI

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We are delighted (understatement) to be supporting the UK's fastest growing start-up to recruit a Staff Product Engineer.

Our client, based in Chancery Lane, London, is building an AI productivity tool. Integrating seamlessly inside Gmail, Outlook and Zoom, it organises your inbox, drafts incredible emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes, giving its users at least an hour of their precious time back every day.

The company has experienced staggering growth since securing their Series A round of $10m in Feb 2025 - growing from $1m - $10m ARR in 5 months. Prominent CEOs, founders and tech influencers are all raving about the product, calling it a 'masterpiece' that 'might just fix email forever.' They are backed by some of the most prominent investors in tech, including key figures in Silicon Valley and the most well-known investors in the UK.

This role reports directly to the CTO.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

As Staff Product Engineer, you will own one of the company's most important products and take on meaningful responsibilities from day one, with opportunities to grow faster than at most other companies. You will own both product strategy (they have no product managers and have no plans for that to change) and product execution. Other responsibilities include:

• Deciding on metrics for your product, and gaining an intuitive understanding of its value by using it yourself and speaking to customers
• Using quantitative data, customer insight, and product sense to build a strategy for your product area, and prioritise initiatives within that strategy
• Executing your strategy by coding up your ideas
• Managing and improving reliability in your product area, by monitoring logs, analysing support tickets and fixing bugs
• Crucially, you'll be responsible for mentoring and developing other product engineers, setting the product direction for a large area of the business, and setting the direction for the tooling the team uses internally to be productive.

WHAT DOES THE IDEAL HIRE LOOK LIKE?

• You’ve worked at an early stage tech company as a staff or lead engineer (<100 people), or been a founder
• You have an expert level understanding of Typescript and serverless architecture. If you don’t have these, you shouldn’t apply
• You want to get involved in product work, rather than just being handed tickets. You’ll be expected to come up with features autonomously, by reading customer feedback and analysing usage data
• You can function as a fullstack engineer, working on client and server side code, and answering data questions using SQL
• You have a high interest in AI and the problem they’re using it to solve
• You have urgency and intensity in your work

WHAT DOES THE COMPANY VALUE?

Autonomy, agency and ownership. They believe small, passionate teams outperform big, unfocused ones every time. That’s why they’re highly selective about who joins them. They are looking for people who bring intensity, creativity and genuine care to their work. They trust their team with real ownership and autonomy because that’s how the best work happens. They’re building a world-class team of incredible people. In order to foster a productive and rapidly scaling culture, the team comes together 4 days per week in the Chancery Lane office in London.

TECH STACK

The company uses a typical serverless Typescript stack. It's not a requirement to have worked with every tool in this stack, but the more the better!

• Typescript for all production code
• Firestore as the production database
• Firebase Auth as the auth system
• Backend deployed on Firebase Functions, and making use of PubSub and Cloud Storage
• React frontend, using ShadCN for components, TailwindCSS for styling, React Query for state management
• Posthog for frontend analytics (events, sessions, feature flags, experiments)
• BigQuery as the data warehouse, with Metabase for data visualisation. Production data and Posthog events both stream into it so data is in one place
• Sentry and Google Cloud Logging for monitoring
• Github Actions for CI/CD

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Private medical insurance
• Pension
• 25 days annual leave
• Visa sponsorship if required for exceptional candidates
• The opportunity to build the UK’s fastest growing AI company with a world-class team

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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