Staff Product Engineer at Nous

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Job Title Staff Product Engineer

Salary Not Disclosed

Company Description Nous is a hyper-growth London startup building an AI agent to automate household admin and save families money. Founded by the creators of onefinestay and Ocado, Nous has achieved 20x YoY growth and manages over £200M in spend, utilizing agentic AI and complex workflows to handle everything from energy to insurance.

Job Description Join Nous as a Staff Product Engineer to lead high-leverage technical bets that scale our household AI agent. You will design core primitives, mentor senior engineers, and ship production-ready code daily. This hands-on IC role bridges product strategy and deep engineering, directly influencing the direction of a B Corp serving 100,000+ households.

Location London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Join one of the UK’s fastest-growing startups (20x YoY growth) with a world-class founding team from onefinestay, Ocado, and Trouva.
• Work at the cutting edge of consumer AI, building "super-engineer" agentic harnesses and autonomous workflows that perform real-world actions like insurance purchasing.
• Enjoy a high-leverage IC role reporting to the CTO, where your technical decisions on "paved roads" and architecture multiply the entire engineering team’s velocity.

What You Will Do

• Own 2–3 high-leverage company bets annually, turning fuzzy product problems into clear technical plans and shipping end-to-end slices every two weeks.
• Architect and evolve core patterns using TypeScript, Temporal, and AI, creating stable libraries that allow the team to expand service lines in minutes.
• Act as a technical multiplier by mentoring emerging leads, conducting high-impact code reviews, and embedding with squads to unblock complex cross-system issues.

The ideal candidate

• You have extensive experience as a hands-on product engineer, with a track record of leading cross-functional initiatives that move core business metrics.
• You possess deep expertise in modern stacks (TypeScript, React, Node) and distributed systems, specifically focusing on reliability, observability, and long-running workflows.
• You are a systems thinker who enjoys building developer primitives while maintaining an obsession with user experience and the impact of every line of code.

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