Staff Product Engineer, Alecto

• Have worked at early-stage startups and driven product direction
• Think in terms of user problems, not just technical solutions
• Have scaled TypeScript projects
• Enjoy refining and customizing your AI workflow into the early hours
• Building AI agents or LLM-powered systems that go beyond simple prompting
• We'd love to talk to you if you're relentless about self-improvement and hold yourself to incredibly high standards, sweating the details others overlook
• You see problems as solvable and find opportunity in challenges, energising the people around you in the process
• You own outcomes, fixing problems rather than waiting for someone else to, and want to be measured on your impact
• You're low ego and self-critical, open to feedback, and give honest feedback directly and kindly

Desirable

• We're looking for a Staff or Senior Product Engineer to join as an early member of our engineering team
• We're a small team of generalists with deep experience in startups and who care about craft. We move fast, ship often, and hold ourselves to a high bar
• From day one, you’ll help shape the product’s direction and ship features to production within your first week
• Requirements will be fuzzy - you’ll talk to users, form hypotheses, and iterate quickly to define what to build
• We're building with:
• A TypeScript monorepo, React, tRPC and Tailwind
• Inngest for background jobs and event-driven workflows
• Deployed on Google Cloud Platform with Postgres
• Reports directly to the founder

• Stage 1:
• Reviewing Application
• Once we've received your application, a member of our talent team will review this and get back to you as soon as possible. You should always hear back from us with how we're progressing your application, so please reach out to us if you haven't ✨
• Please note, we personally will review every single application, not AI
• Stage 2:
• Introduction Call with Talent
• An Introductory Call is a ~30 minute call on Meets to get to know you more: your experiences relevant to the role you've applied to, understanding your interest in Alecto, and a chance for us to give you more context / give you a chance to ask anything about the role or us!
• Depending on the Seniority of the role may determine the length of the call
• Stage 3:
• Take Home Coding Challenge
• For our engineering roles, we need to ensure we're hiring genuine builders 🧱 We've set up a coding challenge to allow you to flex your creativity, whilst showing us your thought process on why you decided to make a technical decision
• Please note, the challenge is relative but not associated with our platform/code. We're aware candidates will be part of other processes, may have current roles, plus other family/personal commitments, so being respectful of your time is first and foremost!
• Stage 4
• Technical Interview
• Time to meet our engineers! This will be a 1h15 interview to dive into your technical abilities, and run through a System Design white-boarding session too
• Stage 5:
• Whiteboarding Session
• As part of this role, we would expect engineers to have a strong systems-design thinking and experience. In this stage, you'll work with the engineers to solve a challenge to draw upon your product-thinking
• Stage 6:
• Values Interview
• A chance for you to meet our Founder & CEO, Will and discuss how your own values, motives and ways of working align with Alecto. It's a great chance for you to understand what drives us and get to know us, too 💫
• Stage 7:
• Hired