Product Engineer

Overview

At Beam, you get to do work that matters for the world. We’re solving the world's toughest social problems with an incredible team, tech and AI. And we’re growing fast. It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. Join a company at the forefront of social impact, driving first-of-its-kind positive change. You’ll be part of a high-performance culture where you'll make a huge impact, rapidly progress your career, and truly enjoy your work.

From top-tier coaching and personal development budgets to competitive salaries, we take care of everyone who works ’ve already seen incredible growth from our Magic Notes product, helping case workers save over 8 hours of admin per week. From social workers and NHS clinicians to mental health practitioners and safeguarding specialists, over 50,000 frontline workers across the UK are now using Magic Notes regularly to deliver faster, more human-centred support.

We’re also launching globally, helping practitioners across the USA, EU, and Australia make a difference.

We’re looking for software engineers with a product-mindset to join 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.

We’re solving some hard problems that aren’t just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us.

• 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

• Our Magic Notes 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 Beam Force product
• 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

• Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks:
• We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Turbo, Phlex, Alpine
  
  JS, Tailwind
  
  CSS, AWS, Postgres
  
  SQL to name a few technologies
• 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

We have a strong preference for London-based engineers who can regularly meet the team to problem solve in person.

We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you.

• 30 mins with our Talent team
• 45 minute Interview with Ben, our VP Engineering
• 1 hour technical test with two of our Senior Engineers
• 1 hour systems design interview with two of our Senior…