Staff Product Engineer (up to £170k)

meet Dex; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is partnering with a trusted company to hire a Staff Product Engineer who will provide technical leadership across critical parts of the engineering organization. You will design significant real-time, AI-native infrastructure and help set the bar for output across teams, shipping software with exceptional user experience.

In this role you will mentor and coach engineers, drive technical strategy across multiple product teams, and establish engineering standards within a leadership group.

Qualifications

• Design distributed, cloud-native architectures.
• Deliver complex projects through others with pragmatic choices.
• Mentor and coach engineers to raise craft and output.
• Strong product and customer instincts grounded in data.
• Growth mindset about AI reshaping engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve significant pieces of real-time, AI-native infrastructure.
• Drive technical strategy and alignment across multiple product teams.
• Set and uphold engineering standards within a technical leadership group.
• Mentor and coach engineers, raising the overall bar for craft and output.
• Resolve complex product issues, balancing user needs with business impact.

Skills

Distributed architectures

Systems thinking

Mentoring engineers

Product/customer instincts

AI in engineering

Job description

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process.

Dex is an AI recruiter agent that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex your stack, seniority, and what you want to build. We will manage your applications and surface other opportunities that are a fit.

The role

This company is rewriting core business software for the AI era. They're building real-time infrastructure and an AI-native architecture, with a frontend their engineers genuinely obsess over. Backed by leading VCs, they're growing rapidly, already 170 people strong.

As a Staff Product Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership across critical parts of the engineering organization. This means designing significant infrastructure, raising the bar for output across teams, and shipping software known for exceptional user experience. This role is for engineers who think in systems and deliver through others without needing line management authority; it is not for those who chase perfection over user value or shy away from shaping engineering practice at a company actively redefining it.

The work

• Design and evolve significant pieces of real-time, AI-native infrastructure.
• Drive technical strategy and alignment across multiple product teams.
• Set and uphold engineering standards within a technical leadership group.
• Mentor and coach engineers, raising the overall bar for craft and output.
• Resolve complex product issues, balancing user needs with business impact.

What You Bring

• You are a first-class technical executor, thinking in systems, not just code. You've designed distributed, cloud-native architectures.
• You deliver complex projects through others, breaking down problems and making pragmatic architectural compromises.
• You have a track record of meaningfully mentoring and coaching engineers.
• You bring strong product and customer instincts, grounding opinions in data.
• You have a growth mindset about how AI is reshaping engineering, comfortable working in new areas.