About the Role
As a Fullstack Product Engineer, you'll play a hands-on role in building high-quality features across our platform, contributing to technical decisions, and helping us deliver a product that's efficient, robust, and a delight for thousands of customers to use. You'll work closely with Product, Design, and more senior engineers to understand problems deeply, translate them into well-crafted solutions, and grow your ability to shape how we build for long-term success.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver high-impact solutions that are clean, scalable, and built to last.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and the wider engineering team to understand what we're building and why, and bring thoughtful input to technical decisions.
- Help maintain, optimise, and secure our systems so they perform at their best, even at scale.
- Tackle tricky technical challenges with support from the team, building your ability to turn complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions.
- Learn from senior engineers around you, share what you know, and contribute to a team culture of continuous improvement.
- Keep up with new tools, trends, and best practices, and bring fresh ideas to how we evolve our stack and processes.
- Take responsibility for features from initial idea to production, making sure every detail delivers value to users.
Requirements
- Solid working experience with Node.js (Express/Nest.js) and modern frontend frameworks like Vue/Nuxt or React/Next, building reliable experiences end-to-end.
- Good hands-on experience delivering production applications using modern JS/TS practices, with a desire to deepen your expertise.
- An understanding of how to build scalable, maintainable systems, and an eagerness to develop stronger architectural instincts over time.
- Working familiarity with MongoDB and AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway), comfortable building and shipping cloud-native features.
- Some experience with deployment pipelines and automated processes, with appetite to grow your infrastructure skills.
- Comfortable writing tests using tools like Jest and Cypress to ship with confidence.
- Works well in cross-functional teams alongside engineers, designers, and product, and actively contributes to a positive team dynamic.
- Thinks beyond the code, staying curious about how features improve the user experience and serve broader business goals.
- Can explain technical thinking clearly, ask good questions, and engage constructively with feedback.
- Contributes to a respectful, inclusive team culture and brings a collaborative, humble attitude to their work.
Skills
- Full Stack Development
- Node.js
- Express.js
- Nest.js
- Vue.js
- Nuxt.js
- React.js
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- System Design
- MongoDB
- AWS
- AWS Lambda
- AWS S3
- AWS API Gateway
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Testing
- Quality Assurance
- Jest
- Cypress
- Collaboration
- Product Mindset
- Communication
- Teamwork
Location
- Zinc - London
Work Type
- Full Time
Salary/Compensations
- £63,000 - £76,000 / year
Benefits
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad
- 30 days to Work from anywhere
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials
- Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries
About the Company
- Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
