Principal Product Engineer, Beam
£180-250k
Plus equity
2-5 days a week in office
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
Be an early applicant
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£180-250k
Plus equity
2-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Role
Who you are
- Breadth of fullstack experience
- Proven experience evolving systems for scale
- Work across all departments to advise on strategic direction in light of technical context
- Evidence of having led technical work that spanned multiple teams
- Product mindset, passionate about building the right thing
- Genuine excitement about the power of AI and how it will shape our profession
What the job involves
- We’re looking for exceptional engineering talent with a product-mindset to join our product teams to help build the future of Beam
- It’s a passionate and growing team (doubled in size in 2026) that values autonomy, empowerment and bias-to-action
- As we scale, the complexity of the problems we face continues to increase, especially in the implementation of AI in a scaled product
- Driving technical direction across the department
- Setting technical strategy in line with long term business goals
- Building the systems that allow us to scale globally
- Continuously innovating on our use of AI internally to drive gains across product and engineering
- Releasing your work to 100,000+ users multiple times a day in tight AI driven iterations
- Building the products that will shape how public services are delivered globally
- Identify and resolve systemic risks that exist between the existing teams and responsibilities
- Mentoring and growing the capabilities of our most senior ICs
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 mins 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
Salary benchmarks
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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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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