This role offers a competitive package, hybrid working (1 day a week in the London office, typically Thursday), 28 days holiday a year plus Bank Holidays and 11% pension from the second year!

Salary £75,000 - £83,000 per annum

Location: London/Hybrid  (1 day a week in the London office, typically Thursday)

About the role

We are introducing a number of Senior Product Engineers to build the future B2B platform at Which?. You will be instrumental in creating a new greenfield full-stack, cloud-native platform in AWS to support new business offerings. 

We are seeking experienced engineers with a background in scaled and established organizations. Ideal candidates will possess expertise in greenfield development, constructing end-to-end user experiences, and implementing new production workflows. Additionally, experience with integrating 3rd party APIs, including public API integrations, event-driven, and asynchronous flows is required.
What do we expect?

You will provide a high level of technical expertise and leadership within your squad supporting the Tech Lead Manager. We are specifically looking for people who have the following characteristics:

• Technical Expertise: You are an expert in full-stack engineering with experience in scaled, cloud-native architecture. This expertise includes our core technologies: TypeScript (Node and React/React native), and critical elements like AWS, Terraform, and building robust RESTful APIs and systems with large-scale integrations, including designing for event-driven and asynchronous flows. You will apply your expertise to build the new B2B platform and create new flows from scratch.
• End-to-End Use Case Ownership: You will take full ownership of the end-to-end use cases for the new B2B platform. This includes designing, implementing, and taking responsibility for the AWS infrastructure, deployment, and observability across the new stack.
• External Integrations Expertise: You will be instrumental in integrating with external partners and 3rd party APIs at scale, leveraging your strong knowledge of event-driven and asynchronous flows.
• Strategic Problem Solver: You will be taking on the most challenging engineering problems facing your squad, and in some cases this will involve driving a team of engineers towards delivering a successful outcome. You focus on solving problems pragmatically while adding value to the product.
• Data-driven and impact-focussed: You will always have our customers/users in mind, ensuring any features or changes you build can be proven to have a positive impact (quantitatively or qualitatively). You will regularly review data to identify and suggest potential improvements.
• Collaborative: You will be working within a multi-disciplinary squad focused on specific outcomes. You are responsible for collaborating on discovery work and ideation and working with other squads to drive better overall products.
• Curious and Proactive: You will never be happy with the status-quo, constantly looking for ways to improve the product, whether through technology or by changing internal processes and practices.
• Technical Mentorship & Stewardship: You support the Tech Lead Manager in mentoring and growing the other engineers in your squad, considering the bigger picture of your development work, including testing, code quality, performance, security, production environment, user experience, and Product vision.

What kind of work might I do?

• Software Development and Technical Direction: Writing software and tests, software design, and working on quality aspects like performance, security, and fault tolerance. This will focus on the new B2B platform's core services, APIs, and end-to-end user experience. You will own the release process and champion innovative use of cloud-native AWS technology. You will engage in technical discussions to guide decisions on the greenfield architecture.
• Collaboration: Working with your squad and stakeholders to set up and plan quarterly OKRs that drive the success of the new B2B offering. You will ensure your Squad's work on the B2B platform is aligned with the wider strategy and commitments.
• Operational Excellence: Setting high standards and driving engineering best practice across the new B2B stack. This includes focusing on observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the cloud-native solution, participating in peer reviews, and facilitating the maintenance of engineering standards, reliability, and performance.
• Squad Empowerment: Contributing to a culture of creativity, curiosity, collaboration, inclusion and innovation within your Squads as you adopt new technologies and practices for the greenfield project.
• Championing "You Build It, You Run It": Drive the adoption of the "You build it, you run it" culture, especially as you own the deployment and operations of the new AWS stack.

How might I progress my career?

At this level you will initially start on the technical leadership track, where you can take on increasingly hard problems with increasing span of ownership and influence and working towards a Staff Engineer role, but there will also be opportunities to shift onto the engineering management track, taking on line management responsibilities and working towards becoming an Engineering Manager with a progression route to Head/Director level roles.

Interview Process

• Meet one of our Engineering Managers via MS Teams (approximately 30 minutes) - Opportunity for you to learn more about the role, answer any questions you have, and provide some examples of providing technical direction across multiple teams and driving product outcomes through technology.
• Technical Take home Test (To be completed in TypeScript)
• System Design & Technical Interview via MS Teams  (90 Mins)

 We also have these benefits for you to consider: 

• 35 hour working week
• Generous 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and the option to buy additional holiday days
• Excellent pension scheme – when you pay in 3%, Which? pays in 6% (rising to 11% after one year of service) 
• Annual Award (depending on employee and company performance)
• Healthcare insurance & Private medical insurance and opportunity to participate in Vitality rewards programme (at 6 months)
• A discretionary death in service benefit provision equivalent to six times your annual salary
• Free access to Which? member content and free access to Which? money & legal helplines 
• Free wills for all Which? employees, plus, partners of employees can make their will at cost price.
• Discount site Pluxee which offers large %% off every day shopping and holidays
• Work from (almost) anywhere” for 4 weeks of the year policy

About Which?

We promote a great work-life balance (all our roles are now hybrid), offering flexible working options in addition to a full time working week (35 hours) e.g. part time or job shares where possible. If you wish to discuss any of these options, please contact the Resourcing team at recruitment@which.co.uk.

Which? is the UK's consumer champion, here to make life simpler, fairer and safer for everyone. You can find out more about what we do, our people and culture as well as hints and tips on how to complete your application on our Careers site.

At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We are proud that we ranked 3rd in the ‘Top 25 Inclusive Employers' List 2024.   

 We want to receive applications from everyone. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we ensure that everyone can apply and be part of our recruitment processes and so we'll make reasonable adjustments if you need them. For this or any other assistance you need with applying (i.e., would like to apply by phone or post), email recruitment@which.co.uk. Find out more about the Disability Confident Interview Scheme here.

Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed and we reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received