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🔍 Lead Product Engineer | High Quality SaaS Platforms | Remote First | Up to circa £80,000 + Benefits
The Role
We are recruiting for a Lead Product Engineer to join a growing SaaS business, specialising in building large-scale, international software platforms used by customers globally.
Unlike typical engineering roles that prioritise coding alone, this position is uniquely focused on product thinking, customer empathy, and leveraging modern engineering approaches to solve real-world problems.
Why This Role Is Different
The business is pioneering an AI-first engineering model, embedding tools like Cursor into daily development workflows—though technical AI expertise isn’t a requirement. What matters most is your ability to:
- Deepen customer understanding of pain points.
- Define elegant solutions to those challenges.
- Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate high-quality delivery without compromising robustness.
The strongest candidates are those who: ✔ Thrive on problem-solving over feature-building. ✔ Embrace a collaborative environment where engineering decisions are made collectively. ✔ Favour craftsmanship—building quality in the first iteration over rushed, technically debt-heavy releases.
Key Responsibilities
Core Focus Areas
- Customer Collision Tasks: Actively engage with-users to uncover pain points and translate them into clear requirements.
- AI-Assisted Engineering: Use modern tools (e.g., Cursor) to iterate faster and improve efficiency while maintaining technical excellence.
- Technical Leadership: Guide engineering direction by:
- Defining clear technical specifications and architecture decisions.
- Leading collaborative technical discussions across teams.
- Balancing innovation with scalability, performance, and security.
- Quality Emphasis: Prioritise well-tested, modular, and maintainable solutions over "good enough" workarounds.
- Corporate Delivery: Shape ongoing product vision by assessing market needs and technical feasibility holistically.
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Essential Skills & Experience
We seek candidates with experience in:
- 🤯 PHP/Laravel backend development successfully handling enterprise-scale problems.
- 📢 AI-assisted tools like Cursor and their potential to transform engineering workflows.
- 🗣 Product-led engineering with hands-on experience aligning technical solutions with real user needs.
- 📋 Technical writing (e.g., specs, documentation, user stories) that evoke shared understanding amongst technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- �音博 AWS (including serverless, datastores, and deployment pipelines) with focus on optimizing performance and cost.
- 🧩 Software architecture (SOLID principles, microservices, modular design) and scalable system design.
- ✅ Testing (unit/system/test-driven development) to ensure reliability and regression resistance.
- 🗣 Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and operations to inform and drive initiatives.
Ideal Candidate Profile
This role suits someone who:
- Delights in discovery: Enjoys speaking with customers, stakeholders, and the product team to unpack challenges and ideal outcomes.
- Thinks holistically: Understands that technology exists to empower products and users, not be an end in itself.
- Embraces technical exploration: Is excited about the future of software engineering (ai weekends, copilot-assisted features, automated testing) and proactively experiments with tools and workflows that improve delivery.
- Balances ambition with pragmatism: A self-starter accustomed to navigating ambiguity but who communicates assumptions clearly.
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Team & Culture
This is a remote-first team, with no fixed office location. They pride themselves on: 🤝 Collaboration: A genuinely supportive culture where technical decisions are made by the team, not individuals. 🚀 Innovation: Ambitious and alert to new technologies, but pragmatic about integration and adoption. 🛠 Flat hierarchies: Plenty of opportunity to influence direction and impact outcomes. 🌂 Flexibility: Plans occasional annual in-person company meet-ups (travel and expenses covered).
Core activities include:
- Biweekly collaborative sessions on innovation, roadmaps, and problem-solving.
- Strategic infinite-worker discussions paired with hands-on coding sprints asynchronously.
How to Apply
Interested and align with the vision? Apply today and we’ll build a tailored picture of what this role could look like for you—-open to discussing!
(Note: Salary is up to approximately £80,000 + competitive benefits.)
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