Senior Product Engineer

Senior Product Engineer (fintech) | Fully Remote (UK) | £75–85k + benefits
I’m hiring for a London-based behavioural finance/fintech client. The team is small, the product is used by wealth managers, banks and digital advisers, and this role is fully remote, UK residents with the right to work only.
This is not a “ticket factory” full-stack job. You’ll own larger, less-defined problems: what should be built as well as how it gets built. You’ll work directly with product, research and occasionally clients, not from a fully specified brief.
What you’ll do
Ship features end to end: Laravel/PHP services and APIs, React SPAs, and the middle layer that joins them
Make architecture and product judgement calls, not just implement tickets
Work with AWS as part of normal delivery (Lambda, S3, Glue, Bedrock, CloudFront)
Use AI coding tools as a core part of how you build — expected to raise what you ship, not as a gimmick
Push back when a requirement doesn’t hold up, and find the simpler solution
Scope work clearly enough to brief freelancers/contractors and review what comes back
Split time between a next-gen greenfield platform and supporting the live product for enterprise clients
Stack
Backend: Laravel / PHP, microservices, BFF
Frontend: React, SPAs
Cloud: AWS
Data: Power BI, AWS data lake, HubSpot
Tooling: GitHub, Jira, Confluence
Who this suits
Strong across the stacK; AI tools accelerate you; they don’t replace engineering judgement
You think about abstractions: what belongs where, what will hurt later if you take the fast path now
You’ve owned messy problems before (feature from idea to production, shaped a solution, pushed back on a bad spec)
Comfortable with ambiguity, at this level you often decide what to build
Curious about the product and the users, not only the code
Years of experience matter less than evidence you’ve actually owned outcomes
The setup Small, high-trust engineering team. Minimal process for its own sake. Direct access to the people setting product direction.
Package £75,000–£85,000 + benefits
Fully remote across the UK
Must be a UK resident with the right to work
If you think you are a good match, please send me your CV.

Work arrangement
Yes