Product Engineer

Summary

Join Zen Educate as a Product Engineer and make a real-world impact on education staffing. Work remotely (UK timezone +/- 6 hrs) as a full-time employee (UK) or contractor (other countries). The salary is location-dependent, with a UK range of £75k-£110k. Zen Educate values real-world outcomes, product thinking, and team success. The company is small but growing rapidly, offering significant impact opportunities. Engineers work on a platform supporting internal operations, educators, and schools, improving efficiency and increasing funding for education.

Requirements

• Value real world outcomes and shared learning over output
• Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
• Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
• Curiosity, adaptability and proactiveness
• Solid communication skills and async habits

Responsibilities

• Liaise with the Finance team to help re-run a set of invoices that originally failed from our automated invoice service, and help implement a feature to convert a long term booking into a job role - to more accurately reflect how teachers work and track job conversions. Then share some design feedback for a booking credit system that was initially less well defined
• Implement a compensation system that will cover the additional fees for teachers, which will allow schools to book needed teachers
• Update the job details view in our React Native app to show more information to teachers about the school and job dates to make the job offers more attractive and useful. Upgrade our backend Rails app to use latest version of Ruby, Sidekiq, Rack and Puma
• Push some small updates to our React Native app, and then finish the week by shipping a feature to improve the experience of schools finding teachers and managing to clean up a bunch of legacy code in the process
• Explore the feasibility of using Google Document AI to extract data from documents uploaded by candidates and validate them, improving automation for our onboarding process
• Implement backend and frontend MixPanel events for crucial workflows to better understand how users interact with our product and what we can improve on
• Spend some time monitoring Sentry to spot performance trends and debug issues. Build an automated rota in Coda for our Native release process, before reviewing Product Refinement Docs and contributing to shaping the solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, React Native
• Experience with Heroku and Cloudflare
• Experience with Amazon Personalise
• Experience building AI powered knowledge-bases

Benefits

Location dependent, but our current range in the UK is £75k to £110k for reference