<p dir="ltr">At Beam, you get to do work that matters. We’re solving the world’s toughest social problems. And we’re growing fast 🚀</p><p dir="ltr">It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. But we take care of everyone who works here with everything from coaching to personal budgets and pay highly competitively.</p><p dir="ltr">You’ll be joining a company that’s having a huge impact on people’s lives with a culture where you can be yourself, have fun and progress rapidly. </p><p dir="ltr">We’re quickly expanding the breadth of our product offering at Beam with revolutionary, AI-powered products that have the potential to transform the effectiveness of caseworkers and social workers globally - our first one is <a href="https://magicnotes.ai/">MagicNotes</a>. Between these products, there’s a huge amount of exciting and important work to do, and we need more folks to join our talented engineering team.</p><p dir="ltr">We’ve already seen incredible growth from our MagicNotes product - that is helping case workers save over 8 hours a week of admin. Our usage has increased drastically over the last few months and we are now processing <strong>1000+ hours of audio from caseworkers a week</strong>. This is just the beginning.</p><h3 dir="ltr"><strong>The opportunity at Beam</strong></h3><p dir="ltr">We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer, reporting to the CTO, with a product-mindset and a passion for AI to lead one of our product teams to help build the future of Beam with the right technologies. It’s a passionate and growing team (doubled in size in 2024) and values autonomy, empowerment and bias-to-action.</p><p dir="ltr">We want engineers who want to take responsibility for the product they are building and take part in every part of the product creation. As a Lead Engineer we are looking for someone who wants to grow in managing a team of engineers and lead the technical vision of the team. We’re solving some hard problems that aren’t just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us.</p><p dir="ltr">We have 2 distinct products at the moment - MagicNotes and Beamforce. One is already leveraging AI extensively - we are one of the first EU companies to be using OpenAI in their EU cluster - and the other we are looking to level up and bring into the future with AI to help our services team with their work. </p><p dir="ltr"><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Leading a team of talented engineers to build out our AI offerings in MagicNotes - from process to mentoring to technical architecture</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Help build our technology for the future - be it infrastructure or front-end. We value generalists.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Work with product, design, commercial and analytics to figure out what new features to build within our product</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Building internal tools - for our team to help as many people as efficiently as possible.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Using the latest generative AI tooling to empower our caseworkers to focus on what matters, helping those in need.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Get deep into the power of the LLMs that exist and figure out ideal optimisations across our systems with them</p></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><strong>Why is this exciting?</strong></p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You will have the flexibility to run the team as you see fit and bring in other great engineers from companies to build an amazing team</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Our MagicNotes product is already used by hundreds of case workers a day - you will have an opportunity to figure out the future of it or you’ll be designing and defining the future of our BeamForce product</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">AI is moving so unbelievably fast that you’ll be constantly looking at opportunities to integrate more into our core offerings</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You will have a high degree of autonomy working with other exceptional and like minded engineers and product people</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You will see your features used by people who really need them - and see the amazing 5-star feedback we get in return for building these critical features</p></li></ul><h3 dir="ltr"><strong>Who we’re looking for</strong></h3><ul><li dir="ltr">Wants to move into management or has management experience and is keen to build a high-performance engineering culture<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">We are happy to consider people without explicit management experience</p></li></ul></li><li dir="ltr">Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Turbo, Phlex, AlpineJS, TailwindCSS, AWS, PostgresSQL to name a few technologies.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">OpenAI & Claude for LLM interfacing</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">We are not wedded to them and will rapidly evolve over the next 3-6 months with the right technologies</p></li></ul></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Has worked in complex software systems - both front-end and back-end and understands the importance of good data structures, a scalable architecture and constantly evolving tech stack</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You care about the “right tool for the right job” and pick the pragmatic options when building software</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Enjoys working in cross functional teams - PMs, UX, Designers and Data</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done attitude </p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You'll contribute to fostering a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, collaboration and continuous improvement within the team through participation in retrospectives and feedback</p></li></ul><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">You're passionate about social mobility </p></li></ul><p dir="ltr">We have a strong preference for London-based engineers who can regularly meet the team to problem solve in person.</p><p dir="ltr">We're committed to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion through our work as an organisation, and that starts with the team we build. 53% of the people we support are from global majority backgrounds and 17% have disabilities. We believe we serve these people best when we’re a diverse and inclusive team. To that end, we particularly welcome applications from global majority candidates and/or those who’ve experienced social disadvantage.</p><h3 dir="ltr"><strong>What we’ll give back to you</strong></h3><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">£95k-140k (dependent on experience - we'll have an open discussion)</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by <a href="https://www.oliva.health/">Oliva</a></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Generous <a href="https://www.gov.uk/tax-employee-share-schemes/enterprise-management-incentives-emis">EMI-qualifying</a> share options.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Annual company festival to build a great Beam culture</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">1:1 workplace coaching with More Happi.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Regular team talks from leading UK tech entrepreneurs.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Free subscription to Calm meditation app.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Discounted tech products with Techscheme.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Generous Holiday - 25 days 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays.</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Pension scheme where we contribute 3% of your salary and you contribute 5%</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit.</p></li></ul><p dir="ltr">We work hard to make sure every employee is given the freedom, tools, trust, and support to do the best work of their careers.</p><p dir="ltr">All our interviews are currently conducted over Google Meet. It usually takes us a week to get back to you after each round. Due to a high number of applications, we are unfortunately unable to offer feedback before Round 2. Feedback for subsequent rounds is provided if requested.</p><h3 dir="ltr">Application process</h3><p dir="ltr">We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you.</p><ol><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">30 mins with our Talent team</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">45 minute Interview with David our CTO</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">1.5 hour technical test with one of Beams senior engineers </p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">1 hour product and cultural interview with one of Beams product managers and a member of the engineering/design team </p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Final stage interview with Alex, our Founder & CEO</p></li></ol><p dir="ltr">Good luck!</p><p><br></p> •
Last updated on Jan 23, 2025