Product Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Wallingford - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
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Posted on:
7 hours ago
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About the team
Our Product and Engineering teams sit at the centre of students employers and education providers. Together we design build and continuously improve digital products that power early careers recruitment learning and talent engagementused by millions of students and thousands of organisations across the UK and beyond.
We operate in a highly collaborative environment where Product Managers and Product Engineers work closely together to shape build measure and improve product experiences. Product Engineers are active contributors to product outcomes combining strong engineering capability with product thinking UX judgement experimentation and ownership.
About this role
As a Product Engineer you will help shape and deliver product experiences across our early careers ecosystem. Working at the intersection of engineering product UX and data you will own initiatives from early concept through to launch measurement and optimisation; turning product strategy into experiences that resonate with Gen Z users.
You will be responsible for building and improving GTIs platforms combining strong engineering capability with product thinking UX intuition behavioural analytics experimentation and AI-assisted development. Working closely with Product Managers you will help improve engagement conversion usability and overall product quality through continuous iteration and optimisation.
This role requires someone who combines engineering excellence with strong product judgement and a passion for user experience. You will be expected to take ownership beyond feature delivery measuring impact learning from user behaviour and ensuring product improvements deliver meaningful outcomes for students employers and the wider business.
The ideal candidate will bring experience building high-engagement digital products and a passion for creating elegant user experiences for a Gen Z audience alongside a strong interest in design experimentation analytics and modern AI-enabled product development.
Key Metrics of Success
Key Metrics of Success
- End-to-end delivery speed and engineering efficiency reduced time from discovery to release increased throughput fewer handovers and effective use of AI/automation to accelerate delivery.
- Product impact and business outcomes measurable improvements in engagement conversion retention usage and marketplace performance driven by shipped product work.
- Product quality and data-driven decision making higher usability performance accessibility and maintainability supported by strong use of analytics experimentation and behavioural insight.
Outcomes
- Student Growth Engagement & Marketplace Performance by improving acquisition activation conversion retention repeat usage applications and employercandidate matching through continuous product iteration and optimisation.
- Exceptional User Experience & Product Quality by delivering fast intuitive accessible mobile-first and scalable experiences that reduce friction and improve task completion while maintaining high performance and maintainability.
- Data-Driven Product Performance & Decision-Making by embedding analytics instrumentation experimentation feature flags and monitoring into delivery so every product decision is validated against measurable impact on engagement conversion retention or marketplace outcomes.
Person Specification
- Strong software engineering experience building customer-facing digital products.
- Experience working closely with Product Managers Graphic Designers and cross-functional teams.
- Strong product instincts and UX awareness.
- Comfortable using data and behavioural insight to improve products.
- Passion for elegant user-centric experiences and product quality.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly.
- Proactive curious and highly motivated to take ownership of outcomes.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced evolving environments.
- Interest in AI tools and modern engineering practices.
- Genuine enthusiasm for building products that improve outcomes for students.
Work Experience Knowledge & Skills
- Experience building consumer-facing products marketplaces jobs boards or high-engagement platforms
- Experience working with React TypeScript and REST APIs
- Experience with analytics experimentation and A/B testing
- Experience contributing to design systems and component libraries
- Familiarity with GA4 GTM feature flags and behavioural analytics
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor Claude Code or similar
- Interest in Gen Z digital behaviours and user experience design
Other Information
- Permanent role 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm.
- 3-month probationary period.
Candidates applying for roles at GTI will be subject to background screening. You can find out more about our background screening and the recruitment of ex-offenders by reading our policies.
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About Company
Supporting students with self-discovery, career guidance, skills and finding roles. Helping employers reach and hire. Enabling universities to deliver world-class services.
