About the role

Staff Product Engineer focusing on high-leverage product initiatives for AI-powered cost-saving platform. Leading cross-team collaborations and driving high-impact engineering efforts at Nous.

Responsibilities

You will:
**Own 2–3 high-leverage bets per year**, not just projects.
**Turn fuzzy problems into clear plans.**
**Ship small, end-to-end slices every 1–2 weeks.**
Be a **domain owner** in one or more critical areas (e.g. front-end, workflows/Temporal, infrastructure, agentic-AI core, data modelling).
**Design “paved roads” for a small, fast team.**
Act as a **multiplier for other engineers.**
Create **written clarity** around the work you lead.
You’ll report directly to the CTO and work closely with Product, Ops, and rest of leadership. There aren’t many layers: how you frame problems and ship solutions will directly influence what the company does next.
In your first 6–12 months, you might:
**Re-design how new members see value.**
**Invent and roll out a standard pattern for long-running switches.**
**Own the front-end platform or another core domain.**
Throughout, you’ll be shipping code regularly, not just writing docs or drawing diagrams.

You’re **hungry and product-obsessed**: you care as much about the member outcome and UX as you do about the elegance of the system behind it.
You’ve led **fuzzy, cross-functional bets** before – pulling together product, ops and engineering to ship something that really moved a metric.
You get frustrated when you see **wasted effort or avoidable complexity**, and you naturally design paved roads so others don’t trip on the same things twice.
You’re happiest when you’re **hands-on in code**, but you also enjoy writing the doc, drawing the diagram, and bringing others with you.
You think in **systems and primitives**, not just features: contracts, workflows, failure modes, observability.
You enjoy **mentoring, growing, and unblocking** other engineers, can demonstrate that you’ve been effective at it, and feel a bit restless if you’re *just* shipping your own tickets.
You’re comfortable with our stack, and can demonstrate expertise on key parts of it.
You prefer a **small, sharp, in-person team** over a huge org with lots of pre-defined processes, and you’re itching for a “big unlock” moment to have outsized impact.

🏢 A great office set up for lots of collaborative working. We already need more whiteboards
💻 The equipment / setup / training you need to do your best work (and of course, AI subscriptions, including Claude Code Max tier)
🤝 A high-context environment with lots of exposure to the big decisions - be in the room when it happens (literally)
🏡 Flexibility around remote work. If you sometimes just need to get your head down, that's fine
☕ __Very good coffee__
🍽️ A well-stocked kitchen (featuring a wildly popular toastie maker) so you can always make yourself a breakfast or light lunch on the house
🎉 Informal social *every week*, something bigger every month, plus a set-piece event in the summer and again at Christmas - we're not robots!
✈ 33 days paid holidays (including bank holidays)
💊 Health and dental cash plans, including an employee assistance programme
🚴 Travel benefits, (e.g., the cycle-to-work scheme)
💰 A generous cash referral bonus if you introduce us to someone who joins the team