Lead AI/Product Engineer, Beam
£95-140k
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2-5 days a week in office
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
Be an early applicant
Reinventing welfare services with tech & AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£95-140k
+ Share options
2-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services
Role
Who you are
- Wants to move into management or has management experience and is keen to build a high-performance engineering culture
- We are happy to consider people without explicit management experience
- Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks
- We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Turbo, Phlex, AlpineJS, TailwindCSS, AWS, PostgresSQL 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer, reporting to the CTO, with a product-mindset and a passion for AI to lead one of our product teams to help build the future of Beam with the right technologies
- We want engineers who want to take responsibility for the product they are building and take part in every part of the product creation
- As a Lead Engineer we are looking for someone who wants to grow in managing a team of engineers and lead the technical vision of the team
- We’re solving some hard problems that aren’t just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us
- We have 2 distinct products at the moment - MagicNotes and Beamforce. One is already leveraging AI extensively - we are one of the first EU companies to be using OpenAI in their EU cluster - and the other we are looking to level up and bring into the future with AI to help our services team with their work
- Leading a team of talented engineers to build out our AI offerings in MagicNotes - from process to mentoring to technical architecture
- 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
- You will have the flexibility to run the team as you see fit and bring in other great engineers from companies to build an amazing team
- Our MagicNotes product is already used by hundreds of case workers a day - you will have an opportunity to figure out the future of it or you’ll be designing and defining the future of our BeamForce product
- AI is moving so unbelievably fast that you’ll be constantly looking at opportunities to integrate more into our core offerings
- 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
Application process
- We usually respond within three days
- All our interviews are currently conducted over Google Meet. It usually takes us a week to get back to you after each round. Due to a high number of applications, we are unfortunately unable to offer feedback before Round 2. Feedback for subsequent rounds is provided if requested
- 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 David our CTO
- 1.5 hour technical test with one of Beams senior engineers
- 1 hour product and cultural interview with one of Beams product managers and a member of the engineering/design team
- Final stage interview with Alex, our Founder & CEO
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trusted by over 100 government partners, Beam is a social enterprise that brings AI to welfare services. Enabled by tech and AI, their caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, whilst their software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers across the UK.
Beam is funded by established names in the UK tech scene, the world's top impact funds and the Mayor of London. Founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, brings a track record from his previous startup backed by Index Ventures and was recently named Purpose Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. The rest of Beam's senior team has their own wealth of experience from a variety of leading startups, tech, and social impact businesses like Arm, Multiverse, and GoCardless.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business awards - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK. Their work has been covered widely in the media, with features from the BBC, The Times, FT, Forbes and The Independent.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
65% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"I love working for Beam because you can be certain that everything you do day-to-day will have a visible and lasting impact on a homeless person."
Company benefits
- Share options - Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Annual retreat - Bond with teammates on a yearly team retreat
- Team talks - Network with big name tech entrepreneurs
- Meditation app - Free subscription to Calm meditation app
- Cyclescheme - Get a discounted bike and accessories
- Generous Holiday - 28 days per year + bank holidays
- Hybrid working - Work at our beautiful Shoreditch office or at home
- 1:1 workplace coaching through More Happi
- 1:1 financial wellbeing through Bippit
- Discounted tech products with Techscheme
- On-demand therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
Company values
- ⚡️ We make an impact - we change lives and fix social problems by setting and achieving ambitious targets
- 🗯 We're open & transparent - we communicate openly and transparently with each other and the world
- 🌱 We get better together - we support each other to improve and actively work on personal growth - with no ego
- 🔦 We're beams of energy and focus - we bring energy and strive for laser focus in our work
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Stephany
(CEO)Previously CEO of JustPark, a leading online marketplace for parking with over 4m customers backed by Index Ventures. Expert on the sharing economy and author of The Business of Sharing (Macmillan).
Seb Barker
(COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Bluinse is a rising star in ops, focused on Beam Lettings: a pioneering service supporting homeless people into stable homes. Outside of Beam, Bluinse is a bit of a dance star with over 100k subs.
Ryan (no relation to Bluinse :) ) is another rising star in ops, supporting homeless people into stable jobs. Ryan loves footie and guitar. He also organises 'Active Wellbeaming' - our paid for team PT.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
Amira & Kat (Chairs of DEI at Beam)
- We work hard to build teams that are diverse in every way.
- We’re committed to creating inclusive hiring processes which allow people with diverse backgrounds to showcase their talents
- We particular encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in startups: those from black and underrepresented ethnic groups and people with lived experience of homelessness/social disadvantage
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