About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our Journey Lab squad and help strengthen how the product is shaped, built, and operated. This role is for an engineer who wants to be involved earlier in the product process, working alongside product and design while problems are still being clarified, trade-offs are being discussed, and the right solution is still emerging. Exceptional candidates who demonstrate sustained Staff-level scope and impact may be considered for appointment at Staff Engineer level.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex product work from early shaping through to production deployment
- Turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical approaches, sensible delivery plans, and coherent vertical slices
- Work directly with product leadership, design, and your squad to shape solutions that meet user needs
- Bring engineering judgement into conversations before work is fully specified, helping clarify gaps, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions within your domain and clearly explain the reasoning behind them
- Design and build solutions that are maintainable, testable, and appropriately scalable
- Own delivery quality as well as implementation, ensuring work is meaningfully tested and production-ready
- Lead debugging efforts for complex issues and identify systemic problems, not just symptoms
- Create clear technical plans and pull requests that explain the reasoning behind the implementation, not just the code changes
- Mentor and develop other engineers through pairing, code reviews, feedback, and stretch opportunities
- Help improve engineering practices, product judgement, technical standards, and delivery effectiveness across the team
- Use AI development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code thoughtfully, treating them as collaborators rather than shortcuts that bypass understanding
- Communicate technical concepts, uncertainty, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Contribute to hiring and onboarding activities
Requirements
- A sustained track record of operating effectively at Senior Engineer level
- Proven ability to lead complex and ambiguous product work from early shaping through to production
- Strong technical judgement, including pragmatic architectural decisions, clear trade-offs, and sensible management of technical debt
- Genuine product curiosity, with the ability to challenge, clarify, and shape work constructively alongside product and design
- Evidence of impact beyond your own code, including mentoring engineers and improving team practices, quality, or delivery
- Excellent communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Confident use of AI development tools, such as Cursor or Claude Code, while maintaining understanding, ownership, and code quality
- Experience in B2B marketing or related domains (Nice to Have)
- Previous experience working in a product-led engineering team (Nice to Have)
- Experience with SvelteKit or a comparable modern frontend framework (Nice to Have)
- Experience operating systems on AWS and Kubernetes (Nice to Have)
Skills
- Modern web technologies
- SvelteKit
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AI development tools (Cursor, Claude Code)
Location
- UK-based
- Remote
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Engineer
- Staff Engineer
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- 25 days leave, increasing to 30 days based on service
- Additional 'moments that matter days' for birthdays, sports days, and other important life moments
- Time off for volunteering
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cashplan
- Employee assistance programme
- Digital GP
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible spending allowance for health/dental insurance, wellbeing, family life, work life, hobbies and experiences
- Quarterly in-person and virtual social activities
- Office transfer and secondment opportunities
About the Company
- Pretzl is redefining what a B2B marketing agency can be.
- As a B2B Technology-and-People-as-a-Service (TaPaaS) agency with approx. 350 people globally, we're not just advising clients - we're building the technology that transforms how businesses connect with their buyers.
- Our flagship product, Journey Lab is changing the game for buyer journey optimisation.
- We believe great work happens when people have space to live their lives. No crunch culture, no expectation to be always-on.
- We trust you to do excellent work within reasonable hours.
- We are building a product-led engineering culture where engineers are involved in the work before it becomes a list of tickets.
- You’ll work collaboratively from feedback capture through definition, solution shaping, build, review, and release.
- Your input will matter at every stage, and you’ll help the team continue moving towards shared ownership of product outcomes.
- We have a career framework with a clear path for those who want to deepen technical leadership, or a shift into management if that is your thing.
- We review progress against this roadmap regularly and encourage the development and growth of our people.
