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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.

Why apply through Dex

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Staff Product Engineer (up to £170k)

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