Lead Product Engineer, Beam
£130-160k
+ equity
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
Posted today
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
101-200 employees
Posted today
£130-160k
+ equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Role
Who you are
- Previous experience as a lead engineer, engineering manager or similar with programming and people management
- Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks:
- We hire engineers of all backgrounds to use the latest Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and PostgreSQL running on GCP
- React + Typescript on the client backed by our shadcn design system
- Experience with OpenAI & Claude for LLM interfacing
- Startup experience: you’ve worked in fast-growth, customer-focused startup companies delivering measurable results
- You’re interested in AI products and how AI can improve your workflows
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for hands-on Lead Product Engineers to drive forward our engineering department. As a Lead Engineer you will be coding. driving technical direction and a people manager of a small product team
- Help build our technology for the future - be it infrastructure, backend or front-end. We value generalists
- Work with cross functionally with Product and GTM teams 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 users 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
Application process
- 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 minute intro with our Talent team
- 30 minute Interview with a Lead Engineer
- 1 hour technical test with two of our Senior Engineers
- 1 hour systems design interview with two of our Senior Engineers
- 30 minute product and cultural interview with one of our founders
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 even 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.
AI has the potential to be a game changer for social workers and in a recent pilot, Beam's AI tool, Magic Notes, reduced the time spend on administrative tasks by over 60% and cut assessment write-ups from four hours to just 90 minutes. As councils explore next steps, Beam's technology is already redefining how frontline workers deliver care, so they can spend more time on what matters most.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
5 people
Rachel Astall, CCO
Our mission
Our 5-person C-Suite brings together leaders from tech, care work and AI - bringing a wealth of diverse experience.Insights
61% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.9)
Company
Company benefits
- Share options: Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
- 1:1 workplace coaching with Oliva
- Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
- Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
- Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
- Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
- Nursery scheme through Gogeta
- Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
- Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
- £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
- Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
- Pension scheme where we contribute 4% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
- Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
- Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme
Company values
- Mission first: We drive the mission for those we serve with heart, grit and zero ego
- Aim high and deliver: We deliver outsized impact through setting and executing against ambitious targets
- Raise the pace: We move with urgency and accelerate others, without compromising excellence
- Get better together: Everything is a work in progress. We constantly work on improving ourselves and Beam
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Stephany
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Ryan joined in 2020 as an Operations Executive. Since then, they have held a number of roles and are now the Head of Operations.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 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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