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Senior Staff Product Engineer
hyperexponential. Take customer problems from discovery to production inside a pod .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in building and shipping production systems end-to-end, with a strong focus on design, testing, observability, and performance. Capable of leading technical direction and collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
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End-To-End Production Systems DevelopmentStrong Systems Experience in Rust, C/C++, or PythonAI Tools Utilization in Software DevelopmentTechnical Direction and Decision-MakingCross-Cutting or Decoupling Initiative Leadership
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Hard Skills
Production Systems DevelopmentTesting and Observability DesignPolyglot ProgrammingSystems Performance OptimizationAI Tools IntegrationFront End DevelopmentBack End DevelopmentData EngineeringInfrastructure ManagementDebugging Complex Systems
Soft Skills
Customer EngagementProblem FramingDecision-Making Under AmbiguityAccountability for OutcomesCollaboration with Non-Technical Stakeholders
Industry Keywords
Production SystemsSoftware DevelopmentIncremental ShippingRobust Systems DesignResource EfficiencyComplex SystemsPolyglot EnvironmentTechnical DirectionCross-Cutting InitiativesHybrid Working Model
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPythonRustC++
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Take customer problems from discovery to production inside a pod
- Engage directly with customers, frame problems, and ship incrementally based on customer signal
- Direct AI agents to draft implementation, tests, and migrations, then review, integrate, and harden the work
- Design and deliver robust production systems with appropriate tests and observability
- Work across the codebase, including front end, back end, data, and infrastructure areas
- Move between pods, problems, and streams as priorities change
- Ramp up quickly on unfamiliar domains and codebases
- Leave delivered systems running well after transitions
- Take accountability for outcomes, raise risks early, and make decisions
- Set technical direction and lead cross-cutting or decoupling initiatives
Requirements
What you’ll need- Built and shipped production systems end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring, and iteration, where correctness, performance, and resource efficiency mattered
- Designed testing and observability for complex, debuggable, and safely evolvable systems
- Worked effectively in a polyglot environment and learned unfamiliar languages, domains, and codebases quickly
- Strong systems experience, for example in Rust, C/C++, or Python
- Shipped work outside your strongest layer, including front end, data, or infrastructure
- Used AI tools as a serious part of software development and can direct, review, and stand behind their output
- Applied product and design judgement to engineering work and made sensible decisions under ambiguity
- Owned outcomes and made decisions rather than escalating
- Set technical direction on hard problems that other engineers built on
- Maintained quality standards across others' work without becoming a bottleneck
- Led cross-cutting or decoupling work adopted by teams
- Comfortable working directly with non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable with ambiguous or open-ended problems
- Able and willing to work from the office 2–3 days per week as part of a hybrid working model
- Legal right to work in the country where the role is based
Benefits
Comp & perks- £5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development
- 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays (33 days total)
- Company pension scheme via Penfold
- Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA
- Income protection and Life Insurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc.)
- Regular remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, and game nights
- Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, and a fun office at The Ministry
- Exceptional opportunities for personal development and growth