Product Engineer, Gaia
£65-95k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Westbourne Park, London)
IVF financing made easy
Open for applications
IVF financing made easy
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£65-95k
+ Equity
3-5 days a week in office (Westbourne Park, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To ensure that everyone who wants a family, has the chance to try.
Role
Who you are
- You have experienced life as a full-stack engineer (backend leaning is ideal!) in a startup for over 3 years
- Technical Skills:
- Fluent in Python (Frappe) and TypeScript ecosystems
- Experience with MariaDB or any other RDBMS
- Strong technical background in building high-quality code and infrastructure
- Preference for simple solutions over complex ones
- 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
- How we build at Gaia:
- We believe work should be shipped and improved in small iterations with the help of early feedback from Members and internal users
- We are heavily biassed towards keeping things simple, using existing open-source technologies and not reinventing the wheel if we can’t add any value
- Our tech stack is built of strongly typed TypeScript, Next.js + React.js, Nest.js, PostgreSQL and SQS
- Our production services run on AWS and Vercel. We automate infrastructure and configuration using Pulumi and Github Actions
- Our observability stack is built up of Cloudwatch, Grafana and Sentry
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 clients 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
Insights
71% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2025
$14m
EARLY VC
Feb 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $37m
Company benefits
- Personal development budget: Everyone in the team is offered $1k per year to spend on building skills and deepening knowledge to take them to the next level of their career
- 25 days holiday: We know how important it is to take time to relax and recharge. Everyone gets 25 days (+ US bank holidays) of leave to take each year and has the opportunity to ‘work from anywhere’ throughout the month of August
- Pension: We’re invested in our team for the long term, including a pension scheme with SMART. We currently contribute 3% as the employer, with an opt-in 5% employee contribution
- Parental support: We offer parent leave and childcare support through our Workplace Nursery benefit
- Stock options: New starters are offered the opportunity to own a bit of Gaia. Everyone gets the same terms of a 1 year cliff and 4 year vesting period
- Fertility support: As a family-building company, we offer support if and when our team members need it. We offer a fertility testing budget alongside side a fixed amount to spend on treatment
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Nader Alsalim
(Founder & CEO)Nader began their career as an Associate at Citi. They then spent 8 years at Goldman Sachs as an Executive Director and 4 years at VTB Capital as the Head of Middle East before Founding Gaia in 2020.
Share this job