Lead Product Engineer

We re looking for a Lead Software Engineer, reporting to the CTO, with a product-mindset and a passion for AI to lead one of 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. As a Lead Engineer we are looking for someone who wants to grow in managing a team of engineers and lead the technical vision of the team. We re solving some hard problems that aren t just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us.

We have 2 distinct products at the moment - MagicNotes and Beamforce. One is already leveraging AI extensively - we are one of the first EU companies to be using OpenAI in their EU cluster - and the other we are looking to level up and bring into the future with AI to help our services team with their work.

What you ll be doing

• Leading a focussed team of 4-5 talented engineers to build out our AI offerings in MagicNotes - from process to mentoring to technical architecture
• Writing code - this is a hands on role and you ll spend around 60% of your time coding
• 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
• You will have the flexibility to run the team as you see fit and bring in other great engineers from companies to build an amazing team
• 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
• AI is moving so unbelievably fast that you ll be constantly looking at opportunities to integrate more into our core offerings
• 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

• You ll want to move into leadership or have experience leading a team and are keen to build a high-performance engineering culture
  • We are happy to consider people without explicit management experience
• Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks
  • We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Turbo, TailwindCSS, GCP, PostgresSQL, Typescript and React
  • React + Typescript on the client via InertiaJS to work with Rails
  • 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