Lead Product Engineer

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Requirements:

• Experienced working in early-stage teams (pre-Series B)
• Recent & extensive experience working with React Native
• Experience developing web apps, ideally with React Native for Web
• Demonstrated expertise in driving the development of a broad codebase - e.g. maintaining a design system, test suites, backend interfaces, and other varying packages
• Solid proficiency with TypeScript, or other strongly typed language
• Solid understanding of system design
• Experience with mentoring, teaching and disseminating best practices to the wider team
• Comfortable and happy to contribute on the backend
• Have worked in cross-functional product teams
• Keen to coach other members of the team
• Flexible in the way you work and are a quick learner
• Keen to contribute across the whole development process
• Compassionate, empathetic, understanding, or interested in mental health
• Always up-to-date with the latest tools and trends

Responsibilities:

• Being an impactful individual contributor writing code and driving technical performance
• Leading engineering projects that drive company strategy and results
• Planning and breaking down work to understand and communicate complexity which allows company-wide prioritization
• Handling the “plumbing” - acting as a backstop to solve obscure and hard-to-debug things that might be blocking the rest of the team
• Keeping the development cycle smooth & speedy - filling in the gaps, taking on the sometimes-unenviable tasks like keeping CI functioning, managing big dependencies, doing things that will best enable the other engineers
• Write up high-standard engineering documentation to set up long-term practices
• Collaborating with both the design and backend teams to create visually appealing interfaces that work to a high standard with fast-moving timescales
• Making our React Native apps “feel right” across iOS, Android, and web - with both parity and appropriate variation between each
• Shape and contribute to the best engineering culture
• Build strong and trusting relationships across the product team and org structure