Staff Product Engineer
hyperexponential11 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own customer problems end-to-end from discovery through production within a small pod.
- Direct AI agents to draft implementations, tests, and migrations, then review, integrate, and harden the resulting work.
- Design and deliver robust production systems with appropriate testing, observability, performance, correctness, and resource efficiency.
- Work across front-end, back-end, data, and infrastructure layers as the problem requires.
- Move between pods, problems, and streams while leaving delivered systems running reliably.
- Set technical direction, maintain quality across other engineers' work, and lead cross-cutting or decoupling initiatives.
- Take accountability for outcomes, raise risks early, and make decisions rather than escalating them.
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping production systems end-to-end, including design, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
- Experience designing testing and observability for complex, debuggable, and safely evolvable systems.
- Strong systems experience in a polyglot environment; Rust, C/C++, or Python experience is valued.
- Ability to work outside a primary stack layer and learn unfamiliar languages, domains, and codebases quickly.
- Experience using AI tools seriously in the development process, with the judgment to review and stand behind their output.
- Product and design judgment, including the ability to shape solutions and make sound decisions under ambiguity.
- Experience setting technical direction on difficult problems, raising quality across others' work, and leading cross-cutting initiatives at Level 4.
- Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders and experimenting on open-ended problems.
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 via Penfold.
- Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life.
- Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno.
- Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
- Income protection and life insurance.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Top-spec equipment including a laptop, screens, and adjustable desks.
- Remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, game nights, team breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and drinks.
- Fun office at The Ministry and 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.