Product Engineer, nous
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3-5 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Intelligent assistant helping households manage their bills
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Intelligent assistant helping households manage their bills
21-100 employees
Open for applications
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3-5 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make life simpler and fairer by creating an intelligent assistant that helps UK households manage their bills, saving them money and time.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a Product Engineer who wants to weaponise their skills for good. You still love to code, you think from a product-mindset, and you’re not satisfied until we’ve actually saved a family money and stress
- We're looking for exceptional individual contributors who wants to raise the bar: excited by hard technical problems, but pragmatic enough to know when “simple and shipped” beats “perfect and late”; someone who instinctively spots risks before they blow up, and still gets a kick out of writing clean, scalable, well-tested code
- Our stack is optimised to minimise infra overhead and give us type-safety from database to client. You don’t need to be an expert in every corner from day one, but you do need to be willing to learn fast and pitch in wherever is most useful. Today it includes:
- TypeScript (Node, React, GraphQL, Prisma)
- AWS
- Our own in-house agentic AI stack (built upon frontier models)
- PostgreSQL
- Temporal for durable orchestration
- Linear, GitHub, Graphite
- Infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Omni, Snowflake, Fivetran, Amplitude, and more powering our data stack
- If you read the following and feel a mix of “this is me” and “this would stretch me”, you’ll probably love being here
- You’re here for the mission
- You’re drawn to problems around fairness, money and complexity; and to making those things understandable and manageable for people around you
- You want to see the impact of your work in real human outcomes: lower bills, less admin, fewer nasty surprises
- You’re picky about where you spend your time: if you’re going to work hard, you’d rather it be on something that genuinely helps people
- You think like a PM, not “just” as an engineer
- You’re happiest when you own a problem end-to-end: from a fuzzy user pain (“this renewal letter makes no sense”) through to a shipped solution and the numbers that show it worked
- You naturally ask “what’s the smallest thing we can ship to learn?” instead of waiting for a perfect spec
- You care about UX, copy and flow as much as correctness, because you’ve seen that a small wording change can make the difference between action and confusion
- You’re a pragmatic full-stack builder
- You’re comfortable working across the stack in modern Typescript, building robust backend services (Node/GraphQL/Prisma or similar) and polished UIs in React (or another modern framework)
- You understand data flows and state management in web apps, and you’ve felt the pain when they’re not designed well
- You write clean, practical code that other people can understand and extend. You know when to abstract, and when to keep it brutally simple to go fast
- You bias to action and learn from reality
- Ambiguity energises you. You can take a fuzzy problem, slice it into sensible bets and ship something real in days, not months
- You treat production as your ultimate feedback loop. Logs, dashboards and user behaviour are how you decide what to do next
- You’re happy to delete your own code when reality disagrees with your idea
- You make the people around you better
- You enjoy explaining complex ideas simply, pairing on gnarly problems and leaving things clearer than you found them
- You’re open, direct and kind: you can disagree without drama, and you care more about the right outcome than being right
- Over time, you want to grow your scope: shaping the stack, mentoring others and helping raise the bar for how we build product
- You might have even faced our challenges before
- You don’t need to tick every box, but it’s a bonus if you have experience with the following:
- Applying GenAI in very practical, user-facing ways, at the bleeding edge of the technology where you have to innovate rather than imitate existing solutions (i.e., not building an LLM-wrapper)
- Orchestrating long-running workflows and complex integrations with third-party APIs
- Working with data pipelines and analytics to uncover new ways to save our members money and time
What the job involves
- We’re building one of the most ambitious consumer AI services in the UK. That means fast iteration, end-to-end ownership and lots of agency. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader on some of the highest-leverage areas of our codebase, from building out agentic capabilities to scaling our service logic
- Within your first few months, you might:
- Design and ship an agentic flow that takes a messy bundle of bills from a member, classifies them, extracts key terms and recommends a better set-up
- Build an internal tool that turns a 10-step Ops process into a 2-click workflow, saving the team hours every week and letting us scale to many more members without growing headcount linearly
- Lead a spike on a new integration with a major provider’s API, handling flaky responses and edge cases gracefully while keeping the member experience fast and simple
- Work with Product and Data to define a metric that actually captures “household peace of mind”, then ship experiments that move it, not just vanity engagement numbers
- You’ll report directly to the CTO, so you’ll be in the room for key architectural and product decisions – not getting them handed to you after the fact. We’re deliberately light on layers of management: exceptional individual contributors shape direction by solving hard problems
- As part of our passionate cross functional team, you will:
- Take the lead on projects within a high-context engineering team
- Actively contribute to product strategy and wider company goals, not just implementation details
- Help shape how our engineering team grows and the technology we use
- Promote best practices and a collaborative, low-ego environment
- Develop across the stack, building and operating both backend and frontend services, including robust and resilient integrations with third-party APIs
Salary benchmarks
Our take
8 out of 10 households pay much more than they need for household services. Some households overpay by thousands of pounds each year. Nous is building a new consumer service that will fundamentally change the way we run our homes, revolutionising a market worth more than £100B just in the UK.
The founding team is a bunch of seasoned entrepreneurs who have built startups from scratch through to exits for hundreds of millions of dollars. They have turned household names like Ocado into unicorns, built world-class engineering teams at Facebook, and even advised and invested in other startups, and taught entrepreneurship at Harvard. They’ve now raised one of the biggest-ever seed rounds in Europe and are set to build a business that improves the lives of millions.
Nous is an early-stage startup building a tech platform that brings together advanced decision-making heuristics and optimisation algorithms, automation technologies, and behavioural economics to make all our lives simpler and fairer.
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Company benefits
- Generous equity with life-changing upside
- Stakeholder pension scheme, health and dental cash plan, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans and more...
- Office-first culture (based out of our HQ with free food and fantastic coffee in Farringdon) but with scope to work from home as required
- Regular team socials and meals, including volunteering opportunities with local charities
- The hardware and software you need to do your best work
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Company values
- Change begins at home - You have more power than you think. Start with what you can control and soon you'll see the difference we can make
- Solve for people - We're on the side of people, tackling problems households can't or don't have time to fix alone
- Action this day - We're impatient for progress, we take purposeful action each day, and we resist inertia with every step
- Tech to power - By using tech to empower people and enhance their real lives, we hope also to help redeem its reputation
- Be good company - By using tech to empower people and enhance their real lives, we hope also to help redeem its reputation
- See through - We're making business more open, transparent, and responsible. And we won't give up the fight against unfairness
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Greg Marsh
(CEO)Founder and CEO of onefinestay, a pioneering accommodation startup they built from zero to a team of 700 and sold to a major hotel chain in a deal worth >$200m. Ex-VC @ Index & Angel investor.
Glen Walker
(COO)Co-founder, COO & CGO, and now a non-exec director at Trouva (successful marketplace startup, investors incl. Index, Local Globe, Octopus) Previously leadership team @ onefinestay, consultant @ McKinsey.
Jon Rudoe
(CCO)Ex Ocado - responsible for the whole of the retail business and scaled it 3x to £600m. Ran all of digital @ Sainsbury's. Lots of experience with mission-led companies & scaling subscription businesses.
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