About the Role
We are looking for a Staff or Senior Product Engineer to join as an early member of our engineering team. You will help shape the product's direction and ship features to production within your first week. Requirements will be fuzzy - you'll talk to users, form hypotheses, and iterate quickly to define what to build.
Responsibilities
- Driven product direction at early-stage startups
- Think in terms of user problems, not just technical solutions
- Scaled TypeScript projects
- Refine and customize AI workflows
- Build AI agents or LLM-powered systems that go beyond simple prompting
- Academic or applied experience in machine learning, especially bridging the gap between research and production
Requirements
- Relentless about self-improvement
- Hold yourself to incredibly high standards
- Sweat the details others overlook
- See problems as solvable and find opportunity in challenges
- Energize the people around you
- Own outcomes, fixing problems rather than waiting for someone else to
- Want to be measured on your impact
- Low ego and self-critical
- Open to feedback
- Give honest feedback directly and kindly
Skills
- TypeScript
- AI
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- React
- tRPC
- Tailwind
- Inngest
- Google Cloud Platform
- Postgres
Location
- London
- Shoreditch, London
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- £100,000 - £125,000 / year
- £100,000 - £150,000
Benefits
- Meaningful early-stage equity
- 5% employer pension contributions
- Comprehensive private medical cover including dental and optical
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Your choice in AI tooling
About the Company
- Alecto is on a mission to fix one of the UK's most broken consumer experiences: conveyancing.
- We're building the UK's first AI-native law firm to change that.
- Backed by Firstminute Capital and a strong group of angel investors.
- Led by a founder who built and scaled Gen H, a fintech mortgage lender, to £1bn in annual lending and £5bn in financing.
- We're building with: A TypeScript monorepo, React, tRPC and Tailwind, Inngest for background jobs and event-driven workflows, Deployed on Google Cloud Platform with Postgres.
