Job Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
You're an experienced engineer, passionate about social impact, looking to create the biggest positive impact of your career in an awesome team environment.
At Beam, you get to do work that matters. We're solving the world's toughest social problems. And we're growing fast.
It's not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is. But we take care of everyone who works here with everything from coaching to personal budgets and pay highly competitively.
You'll be joining a company that's having a huge impact on people's lives with a culture where you can be yourself, have fun and progress rapidly.
We're quickly expanding the breadth of our product offering at Beam with revolutionary, AI-powered products that have the potential to transform the effectiveness of caseworkers and social workers globally - our first one is MagicNotes. Between these products, there's a huge amount of exciting and important work to do, and we need more folks to join our talented engineering team.
We've already seen incredible growth from our MagicNotes product - that is helping case workers save over 8 hours a week of admin. Our usage has increased drastically over the last few months and we are now processing 1000+ hours of audio from caseworkers a week. This is just the beginning.

The opportunity at Beam

We're looking for Senior (and above) software engineers with a product-mindset to join our product teams to help build the future of Beam with the right technologies. It's a passionate and growing team (doubled in size in 2024) and values autonomy, empowerment and bias-to-action.
We want engineers who want to take responsibility for the product they are building and take part in every part of the product creation. We're solving some hard problems that aren't just technical, and value people who want to solve them with us.
We have 2 distinct products at the moment - MagicNotes and Beamforce. One is already leveraging AI extensively - we are one of the first EU companies to be using OpenAI in their EU cluster - and the other we are looking to level up and bring into the future with AI to help our services team with their work.

What you'll be doing

Help build our technology for the future - be it infrastructure or front-end. We value generalists
Work with product, design, commercial and analytics to figure out what new features to build within our product
Building internal tools - for our team to help as many people as efficiently as possible
Using the latest generative AI tooling to empower our caseworkers to focus on what matters, helping those in need
Get deep into the power of the LLMs that exist and figure out ideal optimisations across our systems with them

Why is this exciting?

Our MagicNotes product is already used by hundreds of case workers a day - you will have an opportunity to figure out the future of it or you'll be designing and defining the future of our BeamForce product
You will have a high degree of autonomy working with other exceptional and like minded engineers and product people
You will see your features used by people who really need them - and see the amazing 5-star feedback we get in return for building these critical features

Who we're looking for

Breadth of experience across infrastructure, backend and frontend technology stacks:
We use the latest Ruby on Rails, Turbo, Phlex, AlpineJS, TailwindCSS, AWS, PostgresSQL to name a few technologies
OpenAI & Claude for LLM interfacing
We are not wedded to them and will rapidly evolve over the next 3-6 months with the right technologies
Has worked in complex software systems - both front-end and back-end and understands the importance of good data structures, a scalable architecture and constantly evolving tech stack
You care about the "right tool for the right job" and pick the pragmatic options when building software
Enjoys working in cross functional teams - PMs, UX, Designers and Data
You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done attitude
You'll contribute to fostering a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, collaboration and continuous improvement within the team through participation in retrospectives and feedback
You're passionate about social mobility
We have a strong preference for London-based engineers who can regularly meet the team to problem solve in person.

What we'll give back to you

85k-125k (dependent on experience - we'll have an open discussion)
Generous EMI-qualifying share options
Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
1:1 workplace coaching with More Happi
Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
Generous Holiday - 25 days 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
Eligible for 6 weeks sabbatical after 3 years in service
Nursey scheme through Gogeta
Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
Regular team talks from leading UK tech entrepreneurs
Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym
Pension scheme where we contribute 3% of your salary and you contribute 5%
Free subscription to Calm meditation app
Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme
We work hard to make sure every employee is given the freedom, tools, trust, and support to do the best work of their careers
All our interviews are currently conducted over Google Meet. It usually takes us a week to get back to you after each round. Due to a high number of applications, we are unfortunately unable to offer feedback before Round 2. Feedback for subsequent rounds is provided if requested.

Application process

We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you.
30 mins with our Talent team
45 minute Interview with David our CTO
1.5 hour technical test with one of Beams senior engineers
1 hour product and cultural interview with one of Beams product managers and a member of the engineering/design team
Final stage interview with Alex, our Founder & CEO
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Role tech stack
Ruby on rails


Alpine.js


Tailwind CSS


Ruby


JavaScript


HTML5


CSS 3


PostgreSQL


SQL