Lead Product Builder

At Mews were redefining how hospitality works and that includes how software gets built. In our Back of House division were introducing a new kind of role alongside our existing engineering paths: the Product Builder. Product Builders are high-agency engineers who shape what gets built not just how.

As a Lead Product Builder you will operate at the forefront of this transformation. This is a role for people who transcend conventional engineering tracks those who blend technical depth product intuition and organisational leadership to create enduring impact. A Lead Product Builder is someone who thinks in systems takes initiative moves fast and creates long-term value by building great products that truly help our customers.

Youll be responsible for identifying driving and delivering high-leverage product opportunities that span teams and domains. Youll lead by example in how AI-native products are built guide strategic direction and act as a multiplier for others in the organization

Your mission should you choose to accept it:

• Take end-to-end ownership of product initiatives - from problem definition to prototype to production

• Build rapidly ship often and iterate based on real feedback

• Lead the design and implementation of systems that power:

  • Product-led growth mechanics

  • Intelligent onboarding and automation workflows

  • Multi-property operational tooling and business intelligence

  • AI-powered Smart Tips and co-pilot product features

• Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to stay aligned on direction without being dependent on them for day-to-day execution

• Operate as a self-contained unit: making decisions running experiments and owning delivery

• Set a high bar for technical and product quality. You wont just ship features - youll build systems that last and evolve

• Mentor Engineers who wish to become Product Builders and other Product Builders to drive adoption of modern development practices

• Champion AI-native development across the team - working faster smarter and with less waste

• Make pragmatic use of cloud-native platforms integrations and managed services to solve problems without reinventing the wheel

• Lead the discovery and delivery of complex cross-cutting initiatives with broad business and customer impact.

• Shape product direction in ambiguous areas working closely with leadership to influence strategic bets and longer-term product vision.

• Mentor and enable other Product Builders and Engineers across the company through pairing reviews coaching and hands-on leadership.

• Drive best-in-class use of AI tools rapidly prototyping solutions and scaling promising ideas into robust product experiences.

• Establish reusable patterns frameworks or services that accelerate the work of other builders and improve overall velocity.

• Define and share patterns for effective AI-native development enabling others even for non-product builders to build faster and more effectively.

• Represent builder thinking across orgs evangelizing a culture of experimentation autonomy and pragmatic problem-solving.

Youll be a great fit if you bring a few of the below with you:

• 7 years of experience delivering customer-facing software with measurable business outcomes.

• Experience as a senior engineer in a product-driven company (startup founder or scale-up experience preferred)

• Track record of leading large-scale initiatives across functions systems or product areas.

• Strong product instincts - you care about the problem as much as the implementation

• Comfortable defining scope navigating ambiguity and making trade-offs in real time

• Take ownership well beyond your code - into customer outcomes product success and system sustainability

• Experience operating without dedicated Product Managers or Product Designers or a strong proven ability to do so

• Demonstrated ability to define and deliver product strategy without top-down direction.

• Consistently lead by example: whether by coaching elevating team standards or proactively unblocking others

• Recognized as a leader in AI-native development with a proven ability to evaluate adopt and scale emerging tools (e.g. agents orchestration autonomous testing) across teams.

• Expert in and actively working with modern AI development tools such as:

  • GitHub Copilot for rapid code generation and refactoring

  • Cursor or other AI-native IDEs to boost development speed and insight

  • Lovable or similar tools to prototype flows and gather user feedback fast

  • Emerging AI agents and workflow automation tools that help reduce friction test faster and unlock scale

• Strong communicator with a history of influencing decision-making at a strategic level.

• Recognized internally as a go-to problem solver and mentor trusted by peers across disciplines