Product Engineer
Location: Remote (UK timezone ±6 hrs generally).Type: Full-time.Salary: Location dependent. As a reference, our current range in the UK across all levels is £75k to £110k. If you will work from another location, you should map this to your equivalent market rate to be competitive. We are open to negotiation as we recognise there are different situations, but these are our general guardrails.
What I Am Looking For
Hi, I’m Martin, Chief Technology Officer at Zen Educate and I’m looking for engineers who can make an impact on the real world problem of education staffing, and do it through engineering excellence.
- Valuing 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.
We are a small, but mighty team and so every engineer has the opportunity to make an outsized impact and put their stamp on what excellence looks like in practice. Today we have 25 Product Engineers working in small dynamic teams across the Zen product.
We recognise the world is not static – “what got us here, won’t get us there” – so we look for curiosity, adaptability and proactiveness as fundamental traits. The engineers I see be the most successful are those who focus on solving problems, look to help others and just happen to typically leverage technology to do so.
So whether you’re passionate about building great products, scaling systems, or improving team processes, you’ll thrive at Zen if you care deeply about users, focus on real‑world outcomes, pursue continuous learning and strive to make others better
What We Are Building And Why
Getting the right teacher into the right school at the right time is a crucial problem to solve, both for education outcomes for children and for the sustainability of an industry that spends billions on this.
Today the platform we are building supports internal operations teams on filling roles, educators on finding roles via our mobile app and schools on getting educators in for both short‑term and long‑term roles. The more we develop the platform (and the ability to self‑serve in the marketplace), the more efficient the whole process becomes, which means more money going back to educators and into classrooms (over £50 million since 2017).
We are well established in the UK and growing at a phenomenal rate in the US …