Senior Product Engineer
hyperexponential12 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Take customer problems from discovery to production within a small pod, using direct customer feedback to guide incremental delivery.
- Direct AI agents to draft implementation, tests, and migrations, then review, integrate, and harden the resulting work.
- Design and deliver robust production systems with appropriate testing, observability, correctness, performance, and resource efficiency.
- Work across frontend, backend, data, infrastructure, and unfamiliar areas of the codebase as required by the problem.
- Move between pods, problems, and value streams while ramping quickly on unfamiliar domains and leaving systems running well.
- Own outcomes beyond individual code changes by raising risks early and making decisions rather than escalating them.
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end from design through rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience designing testing and observability for complex, debuggable, and safely evolving systems.
- Strong systems experience in environments such as Rust, C/C++, or Python, with the ability to learn unfamiliar languages and codebases quickly.
- Experience shipping outside a primary technical layer, including frontend, data, or infrastructure work when needed.
- Serious use of AI tools for software development, with the judgment to direct, review, and take responsibility for their output.
- Product and design judgment sufficient to shape solutions, make sensible decisions under ambiguity, and work directly with non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ownership of outcomes and willingness to experiment rather than follow only detailed instructions.
Benefits
- £5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development.
- 25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays, for 33 days total.
- Company pension scheme through Penfold.
- Mental health support and therapy through Spectrum.life.
- Individual wellbeing allowance through Juno.
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
- Income protection and life insurance.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Top-spec equipment including laptop, screens, and adjustable desks.
- Remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, game nights, team breakfasts, lunches, snacks, drinks, and an office at The Ministry.
- Exceptional opportunities for personal development and growth.
About hyperexponential
hyperexponential builds an AI-driven underwriting and pricing platform for commercial property and casualty insurers, used by underwriters, actuaries, and portfolio leaders. The SaaS system governs decision logic, models complex risks, and plugs into carrier workflows; top global carriers use it for underwriting decisions across $75B+ in annual premium. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, the company is privately held.