Senior Product Engineer, Zinc Work
£75-80k
2 days a week in office
Automated employee reference and background checking software
Be an early applicant
Automated employee reference and background checking software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-80k
2 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To change the way people prove their work identity.
Role
Who you are
- Full Stack Development 💻 – Advanced skills with Node.js (Express/Nest.js) and modern frontend frameworks like Vue/Nuxt or React/Next, building smooth, scalable experiences end-to-end
- TypeScript & JavaScript Mastery 📜 – Deep, hands-on expertise delivering production-grade applications using modern JS/TS best practices
- System Design & Architecture 🏗️ – Proven ability to create scalable, maintainable, and high-performance systems that stand the test of time
- Database & Cloud ☁️ – Strong experience with MongoDB and AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway) for robust, cloud-native solutions
- DevOps & CI/CD – Skilled at creating and managing pipelines, automated deployments, and infrastructure-as-code to keep things shipping smoothly
- Testing & Quality Assurance 🧪 – Proficient with tools like Jest and Cypress to ensure quality, reliability, and confidence in every release
- Highly Collaborative 🤝 – Thrives in cross-functional teams, working closely with engineers, designers, and product to deliver exceptional results
- Product-Minded – Always focused on customer impact, thinking beyond code to how features improve the user experience and meet business goals
- Clear Communicator 🗣️ – Able to explain technical decisions simply, provide constructive feedback, and make complex ideas accessible to all stakeholders
- Kind & Supportive ❤️ – Builds a positive, respectful team culture, lifting others up and working with humility and empathy
What the job involves
- Reporting To: Rob Leonard
- We are expanding our engineering team to boost our development capacity and take our product to the next level
- As a Senior Product Engineer, you’ll play a central role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, building high-quality features, influencing system architecture, and ensuring we deliver a product that’s efficient, robust, and a delight for thousands of customers to use
- You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and customers to deeply understand problems, translate them into elegant technical solutions, and help decide not only what we build but how we build it for long-term success
- Building powerful features – Design and deliver high-impact solutions that are clean, scalable, and built to last, delighting thousands of customers
- Shaping the big picture 🎯 – Work with Product, Design, and customers to define what we build and how we build it for long-term success
- Keeping things running smoothly ️ – Maintain, optimise, and secure our systems so they perform at their best, even at scale
- Problem-solving like a pro 🧠 – Lead the charge on tricky technical challenges, turning complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions
- Mentoring and leading 🤝 – Support and guide other engineers, sharing knowledge and raising the technical bar for the team
- Staying ahead of the game 📚 – Keep up with new tools, trends, and best practices, helping us continuously evolve our stack and processes
- Owning your work end-to-end 🎨 – Take full responsibility from initial idea to production, making sure every detail delivers value to users
Application process
- Applied
- Talent Discovery Call
- Google Meets Interview
- Final IN Person Interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The existing processes for referencing and background checking suffer from notable inefficiencies, marked by biases, time-consuming procedures, and an intimidating experience for candidates. Addressing these challenges, Zinc Work aims to solve these processes by introducing an automated reference and background-checking solution.
Setting itself apart in the market, Zinc Work focuses on the user-friendly design of its solution, its swift integration into existing Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and its high level of customisation. With a vision to offer a solution for background checks, Zinc covers a spectrum from criminal record checks to financial, education, identity, employment, and reference checks.
Funding secured in 2023 was led by esteemed financial services investor AVP (AXA Venture Partners) and supported by Seedcamp, and will facilitate the launch of groundbreaking industry initiatives. These include the introduction of the first reusable global Right To Work check, the first Employment verification reference integrated with HMRC, and a background check template library collaboratively contributed to by over 40 Zinc Work customers. This financial injection underscored Zinc's commitment to innovation and reinforced its position as a trailblazer in the realm of automated reference and background checking solutions.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
43% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"Team energy is great, there is lots of positivity and support. Because we only come in 2-3 days a week, when we are in everyone is engaged and happy..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$6.7m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$1.4m
SEED
Total funding: $8.6m
Company benefits
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- Apple laptop and latest tech gear for your home workstation
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company Retreat
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
Company values
- Empathy: Seeking to understand your perspective first
- Collaboration: We will work teogether to solve problems
- Empowered: Empowering candidates with information and data
- Speed: We will work to deliver at pace
- Integrity: We are truth seekers, providing transparent information
- Pragmatic: We're a solutions oriented team that seeks to solve
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Charlotte Lucy Hall
(Co-Founder)Previously a Marketing Manager at Superscript, Podcast Producer at Talent Hacks for Scaleups, and a Marketing Executive at ILTM.
Luke Shipley
(Co-Founder)Previously EMEA Head of Technology at Intelletec for 1 year. Has also co-founded stitch Leggings and Lean Lychee.
People progressing
He was a regular soldier in the Army, after leaving and studying he joined Zinc as an SDR (After a spell gold diving in FLorida). Having come in with no experience he has promoted fast through Zinc.
Tiasha joined Zinc way back in 2021, she highlighted that she wanted to work in Account Managment and has worked hard to make this career change happen.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zinc Work
- We currently do not record LGBTQIA+ status: our team is small, which means data is hard to anonymise.
- As of January 2024, 48% of the Zinc team are Ethnic Minorities.
- We offer flexible working for everyone from day one.
- Accommodations are available for everyone, regardless of status and never need to be justified: this is outlined in our DEI Statement which is accessible to all employees.
- We offer prayer space at our co-working offices, and flexible diary arrangements for employees to keep their faith.
- We’ve created a ‘Manual of Me’ page in our company Notion: to help foster understanding and allow team members to advocate for their communication style and work patterns.
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