Staff Product Engineer (London Area)
Product focused mindset AND technical prowess - an opportunity to truly own, build and ship a product entirely influenced by you!
This is a perfect sum-up for this Staff AI / Product Engineer role & the culture within the company.
Quick view details about the role:
Location: London
Hybrid working - 1 day / week in office
Salary: £120-140k base + Equity
No Visa Sponsorship possible at this point
Company Size: Seed Stage with 7m funding and ample runway, more funding on its way.
Team size: 22 employees in total - 8 in engineering & research
Tech stack: Python, Fast API, GCP, AI coding tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot or Claude Code
What makes them awesome?
The product - an AI driven workspace, purpose built LLMs to be incredibly accurate and able to influence business decisions. The product is already far more accurate than OpenAI / Gemini / Salesforce or others within their space.
The leadership - highly experienced leaders with 17+ years in the tech scene, extremely passionate about harnessing AI's power to build truly impactful products & solutions.
The people - a senior team that's highly experienced and knowledgeable, each bringing an edge in their field & their roles. Together, they truly believe in team effort, recognising each other's values and excited about what each can do. It is a truly inspirational envrionment allowing people to focus on what they do best.
Their way of working has been defined by this approach: no daily stand-ups - just meaningful weekly syncs, ad-hoc collaboration when needed and lots of well documented journeys.
What do they believe in?
- Product-Minded Engineering: Understanding the why behind features and using technical
- expertise to inform product decisions
- Intellectual Honesty: Backing discussions with data and acknowledging knowledge gaps
- Effective Time Management: Setting clear time boxes and abandoning approaches that aren't working
- Clear Communication: Writing self-documenting code and providing detailed explanations
- Innovation Mindset: Forming well-reasoned opinions backed by data and continuously learning
- Personal Growth: Supporting your development through challenging work and opportunities to expand your expertise
What does a Staff Product Engineer do here on a day to day:
- Think like a Product Manager: Own core product components while balancing technical excellence with business impact (they do NOT have a PM in the team so part of this responsibility is yours).
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex features from initial concept to production deployment and customer adoption
- Collaborate with product and commercial teams to understand customer needs and translate them into robust technical solutions
- Leverage AI coding tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code to accelerate development workflows
- Lead development of features solving our customers' most complex challenges:
- Advanced data extraction systems for processing property leases at scale
- Sophisticated workflow automation for analysing planning documents and drafting advice
- Multi-step agentic content generation for creating market research reports
- Implement data privacy and security by design
- Invest in your own growth by taking on ambitious technical challenges and expanding your expertise
- Apply our engineering philosophy: intellectual honesty, effective time management, clear communication, and innovation
What you'll need:
- Experience in high-growth startups or fast-paced tech environments
- Track record building software in organizations with excellent engineering practices
- History of owning end-to-end product development, from definition to delivery and customer adoption
- Strong Python skills with a track record of shipping customer-facing features on critical paths
- Experience building and maintaining high-quality APIs and integrations
- Proficiency with AI coding assistance tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)
- Intellectual curiosity and honesty—digging deep into problems and sharing findings openly
- Proven ability to make technical decisions that balance immediate user needs with long-term architecture
- Exceptional communication abilities for explaining complex concepts to diverse audiences
- Ambition and resilience—we're a seed-stage company tackling ambitious challenges
- Commercial awareness—delivering continuous value to customers is essential
- Passion for personal growth and continuous learning
If this sounds like a role for you, I would love to have a chat!
- Company
- Okto Search
- Location
- London, UK
Hybrid / WFH Options - Posted
- Company
- Okto Search
- Location
- London, UK
Hybrid / WFH Options - Posted