Lead Product Engineer

Stay close to the code. Have a say in what gets built.Lead Product EngineerNewcastle upon Tyne Hybrid: 3 in person, 2 WFH You’ll work alongside our Product Managers and Product Designers to decide which customer problems to tackle, lead the technical decisions and build the software with your team.You’ll stay hands-on across front end, back end and cloud, writing and reviewing production code each week. Bring strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, experience with frameworks such as React, Next.js or NestJS, and a track record of building and operating applications on AWS or a similar cloud platform.Hubexo’s software helps construction businesses find projects, share product information, write specifications and manage tenders.

You’ll work directly with customers and users, then follow what you build through release and improvement to understand whether it has made a difference.You’ll report to the Engineering Director and draw on a global team across Architecture, Platform Engineering, QA, AI & Data, and Security.What you’ll doShape product decisions with Product and Design. Speak with customers, bring engineers into discovery and challenge assumptions with simpler solutions or experiments.Own the technical direction of your product area while writing and reviewing code.

Balance customer value, delivery speed, quality and technical debt.Build secure, scalable and accessible software. Strengthen testing, release automation, observability and recovery, and take part in incident response.Define success measures before building. Use product analytics, feature flags and staged rollouts to understand results and decide what to improve.Coach engineers and help them make sound decisions independently.

Use AI coding and agentic tools throughout delivery, setting clear standards for validating their output.What you’ll bringSubstantial hands-on experience designing, building and scaling complex SaaS systems, including leading technical direction for a product area.Strong full-stack TypeScript/JavaScript skills, REST or GraphQL APIs, and SQL or other data stores.Experience building and operating cloud applications in an agile, DevOps environment.Examples of working with customers or users to shape what was built, and measuring whether it worked.Working knowledge of product analytics and experimentation, such as PostHog, feature flags and staged rollouts.Daily, considered use of AI coding and agentic tools, with a clear approach to validating their output.Experience developing other engineers and influencing without line-management authority, including explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical colleagues.Experience with enterprise or regulated B2B SaaS, global products, AI features or frameworks such as SOC 2, FedRAMP or GDPR would be useful.

Construction, specification or procurement knowledge would also be welcome. These are desirable rather than essential.What you’ll getA 35-hour week, Monday to Friday, with three days at One Trinity Gardens in Newcastle and two working from home.25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, the option to buy or sell holiday, and birthday leave.Two volunteering days.Pension and life assurance.Discounted private medical insurance, 24/7 remote GP access and an Employee Assistance Programme.An onsite gym and eye-care support.A cycle-to-work scheme and an interest-free travel-ticket loan.