Product Engineer

🧬 About Sano Mission; what we do

• accelerating the world’s transition to personalised medicine

• to speed up development of life-saving treatments for those with limited options

• become the world’s best source of patient-in-the-loop genomic and health data for precision medicine development

👉 Curious to dive deeper? Read more about what we do here

Brief into to the role, who they are reporting to,...

• Role -Product Engineer

• Salary -80,000 - 90,000

• Location -UK (remote only)

• Identifying and prioritising the right problems to solve
  , focusing on meaningful customer outcomes and making smart trade-offs to maximise impact with limited time and resources.

• Owning features end-to-end
  , from early discovery and technical input through design, implementation, testing, and release.

• Building and evolving core product capabilities
  , with an immediate impact on the reliability, scalability, and usability of our platform.

• Iterating quickly and pragmatically
  , using your judgement and experience to balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

• Shaping technical direction in a small team
  , contributing to architectural decisions and helping define how we build and ship product.

• Collaborating closely across the business
  , setting a high bar for communication through clear documentation, thoughtful proposals, and well-structured code.

• Championing strong engineering practices
  , continuously improving how we work and supporting teammates through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions.

• Have hands-on experience building and shipping production software
  , using languages and frameworks such as Go, Python, or Ruby on Rails.

• Enjoy working in small, high-trust teams
  , collaborating closely with other engineers and giving clear, constructive feedback to move work forward.

• Take a product-first approach to engineering
  , partnering with Product to understand customer needs and prioritising outcomes and impact over purely technical perfection.

• Are comfortable operating with ambiguity
  , contributing to early-stage thinking, helping shape solutions, and refining ideas as you learn more.

• Thrive in iterative environments
  , sharing work early (even when it’s not “done”), gathering feedback, and adapting quickly based on input.

• Balance speed with quality
  , making pragmatic decisions around technical debt, testing, and documentation to ship valuable features without over-engineering.

• Care about building maintainable systems
  , and are thoughtful about how today’s trade-offs affect the product and team over time.

• Experience designing or working with APIs
  , especially where data integrity, versioning, and backwards compatibility really matter.

• Exposure to data pipelines or data-heavy systems
  , particularly where data quality, validation, or traceability are important (experience with regulated or sensitive data is a bonus, but not required).

• Experience working in a remote-first team
  , comfortable collaborating asynchronously and communicating clearly across time zones.

• You need very clear direction or tightly scoped tasks to do your best work — this role involves a lot of autonomy and self-direction.

• You’re most comfortable in highly defined roles and processes
  , rather than adapting as priorities, scope, and problems evolve.

• You prefer working on purely technical tasks
  , with limited exposure to product decisions, customer context, or business trade-offs.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don't let our role description hold you back, get applying!

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