Take full technical ownership of an established, revenue-generating product, transitioning building responsibilities from the CTO. You will own delivery end-to-end—from design to monitoring—while driving an agent-first workflow. This is a rare opportunity to shape a growing company’s technical strategy and eventually lead its engineering team without VC-driven pressure and bureaucracy.
Senior Product Engineer at Thankbox
Join Thankbox as a Senior Product Engineer and take the technical reins of a profitable, bootstrapped workplace appreciation platform used by thousands of organizations. You'll lead an agent-first workflow using cutting-edge AI orchestration to ship features across a modern Laravel and Vue stack. This is a unique opportunity to transition from builder to technical leader in a high-impact, customer-focused environment with no VC theatre. Based in the UK with fortnightly meetups in Edinburgh.
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Location
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Compensation
£60k-£65k
Company
Thankbox
Role overview
At Thankbox, we’re on a mission to make appreciation effortless. Thousands of organisations around the world use Thankbox to celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries, onboarding, farewells and countless other moments that deserve to be recognised.
What started as online group cards has grown into a workplace appreciation platform, helping businesses celebrate people in a meaningful, personal way.
We’re a small team with ambitious plans. We move quickly, care deeply about our customers and believe the best ideas can come from anyone.
What you will do
- Own product delivery end-to-end, managing everything from initial design discussions to implementation, testing, deployment, and performance monitoring across the main application and marketing site.
- Drive and evolve an agent-first development workflow, orchestrating coding agents and maintaining the sophisticated AI infrastructure that makes them effective.
- Manage critical real-money systems including Stripe payments, multi-currency transactions, and gift-card fulfillment APIs while contributing to high-level architectural decisions with the leadership team.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 4+ years of experience shipping full-stack web products with personal accountability, ideally using a stack like Laravel, PHP, Vue, and TypeScript.
- Is a genuinely AI-native engineer who treats agent context, such as memory files and anatomy indexes, as a maintained asset rather than just using basic code completion.
- Demonstrates a strong instinct for subtraction and simplicity, preferring to ship iterateable MVPs and delete unnecessary code rather than building over-engineered solutions.
Why this role is remarkable
- Gain genuine technical ownership of a profitable, customer-funded product with thousands of global users, avoiding the high-risk “blank-page” phase of typical startups.
- Work at the bleeding edge of AI-augmented development, utilizing persistent agent memory, MCP servers, and curated skill libraries to direct a fleet of coding agents.
- Step into a clear path toward technical leadership, with the long-term potential to lead strategy and build out an engineering team as the company scales.
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