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.
Staff Product Engineer at Nous
Join Nous, one of the UK's fastest-scaling startups with 20x YoY growth and an NPS higher than Apple. As a Staff Product Engineer, you'll be a hands-on IC building an AI-powered agent that automates household complexity—from energy switching to insurance—for over 100,000 households. Working directly with the CTO and founders of onefinestay and Ocado, you will own high-leverage company bets and design the "paved roads" for a sharp, high-velocity engineering team in London. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of agentic AI in the real world.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Nous
Role overview
Financial Technology (Fintech)London, United KingdomSeed (VC-backed)
Nous is a UK-based fintech startup offering a free and premium AI-powered service to help households manage their finances more efficiently by automating the tracking of household bills, negotiating contracts with service providers, and alerting users to saving opportunities. The platform enables users to upload bills, categorizes and summarizes them, and proactively finds better deals for energy, broadband, mobile phone, insurance, and mortgage contracts. Nous aims to simplify life, protect against rising costs, save time, and free users from the hassle of bill management through technology and the power of collective bargaining. The company positions itself as being on the side of consumers, advocating for fairness and transparency while never profiting from recommending deals.
Backed by Mosaic Ventures, Chalfen Ventures, Tom Blomfield, Marc Warner, Dan Hegarty, Eamon Jubbawy, Brent Hoberman, Andy Phillipps.
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.
Who this is a fit for
- 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.
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.
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