Principal Product Engineer

The role

You will drive technical direction and set technical strategy in line with long term business goals. You will build systems for global scale and innovate on the use of AI to build products for public services.

What you will do

• 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 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

Required qualifications

• 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

Before you apply

• 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process
• 1 hour technical test with two of our Senior Engineers
• 1 hour systems design interview with two of our Senior Engineers

About the company

Beam is building AI that serves society. It is a global team of problem solvers that has been named a Top 15 UK Startup by LinkedIn.