Product Engineer, Gaia
£60-80k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Westbourne Park, London)
IVF insurance plans
Open for applications
IVF insurance plans
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£60-80k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Westbourne Park, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Gaia is on a mission to ensure that everyone who wants a family has the chance to try.
Role
Who you are
- If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, cares about software engineering as a craft, and finds thrill in building startups, we want to talk to you
- You have experienced life as a full-stack engineer in a startup for over 3 years
- You are fluent in working with the JavaScript ecosystem. Bonus points if you are fluent with TypeScript (what we use)
- You are experienced in working with PostgreSQL
- You're resilient working in ambiguity while seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
- You're ready to hit the ground running with a strong technical background, including experience building high-quality code and infrastructure
- You enjoy working as part of a small, cross-functional team in close partnership with other cross-functional teams
- You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
- You like to take ownership of problems. Our product spans across healthcare, insurance and finance. You will need to find creative solutions and get others on board with them
- You approach understanding and solving problems holistically, not only from a tech point of view
- We always prefer passion over skills. If you do not tick all of the above requirements but are excited about our mission and values, please get in touch!
- Throughout the interview process, we are looking for:
- You can take on big, loosely defined projects, break them down, and deliver them in an intuitive and digestible way
- You are comfortable working in a constantly-changing environment, regularly questioning and challenging the status quo
- You are able to understand problems deeply and holistically
- You can communicate complex topics clearly and concisely
- You show the potential to mentor other engineers as the team builds
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate engineer to build the financial platforms for our insurance and lending products
- You will work on features and services that reduce the financial stress and burden of fertility treatments and increase operational efficiency
- As a Product Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features and solutions at breakneck speed
- Designing and building scalable software to deliver a world class digital experience to our customers, integrating complex financial processes (like underwriting, insurance, risk scoring, loan servicing, payments)
- Scoping and leading technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve, scale and deliver outcomes
- Making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and technical feasibility
- Collaborating closely with our product, design, ops and data teams to prioritise and build solutions and deliver customer and business outcomes
- Improving the developer experience and quality of our systems by investing in tooling, infrastructure, code quality, automated testing and observability
- Setting the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution
- We work in small cross-functional teams collaborating closely across our entire business
Application process
- 1. Talent Screen
- 2. Short Technical Assessment (Hackerrank)
- 3. Hiring Manager (Eng Culture)
- 4. Technical Assessment Loop
- 5. Final Interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Gaia Fertility was founded in 2020, as a response to founder Nader Alsalim and his wife’s personal difficulty with IVF: it took three clinics in two countries, and £50,000 over four years to conceive. Creating the start-up from a patient experience perspective helps them to solve the challenges of intended parents.
Their approach is to take the guesswork out of trying for a baby. They use a personal predictive technology tool, “Gabi”, which has analysed the data from over one million past IVF treatments over 35 years and can compare it with your information.
There is some well-reasoned concern for vulnerable parents being sold ‘false hope’ in overseas IVF treatments. However, with only 12% of NHS groups offering the recommended number of IVF cycles, Gaia can offer an alternative, specialised care package.
With substantial funding raised in 2022 from high-profile investors, and a growing focus on fertility health in men and women across society, Gaia is well-positioned to disrupt this market and make a real difference in the lives of intended parents.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Challenging work
"Software engineering. Data science. Insurance. VC. Product. Business model. Design. Customer success. Brand. Credit. Biology. These are some of the..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Jul 2020
$3m
SEED
Total funding: $23m
Company benefits
- Contribution to fertility treatment for you and your partner
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Private Healthcare (Vitality)
- £1000 Personal Development Budget
- Workplace Nursery Benefit
- SMART Pension
Company values
- Be extraordinary at what you do: Pursue your craft with excellence and seriousness
- Drive or get out of the way: Identify problems, take initiative, and step out of your lane
- Them, not you: Do right by our members, be kind, and take one for the team
- When in doubt, be brave: It's the only way to bring about change
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Nader Alsalim
(Founder)Started as an Associate at Citi. Became an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs for eight years. Head of Middle East for VTB Capital
People progressing
In 4 years Lucy has risen from research intern to our Product Marketing Manager. Lucy is the face of Gaia to our early members, dedicating her time to make the Gaia experience the best it can be.
Lorna joined us in March 2023 as our Growth Marketer, she excelled at her role and is now responsible for the Member Growth team (4 reports) and is moving to New York to help build out the hub.
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