Product Engineer (all levels)

👋 Hi, I’m Sina, CTO at Nous. I’ve spent my entire career in startups, starting my first company when I was a teenager, and navigated many 0→1 journeys (including starting the largest social network of its time in my home country). A pattern throughout my life is that I love finding and solving complexity that wastes people’s time or money. Nous aims to do exactly that. From a product and technology perspective, I believe there is *so much* we could build to not only empower households to not get ripped off, but also to take away more and more complexity out of their lives. If this problem space resonates, please read on. PS: I’ve actually written this page with my hands; this is not AI-written content! ABOUT NOUS Roughly 90% of UK households are overpaying on their bills. Nous is an agent to absorb complexity out of households, saving them money and time. Our mission is to make people’s lives simpler and fairer, starting with the 30 million households here in the UK, and soon far beyond. Nous is growing fast, it’s working. 20x YoY growth makes us one of the fastest scaling startups in the UK. NPS of +70 (higher than Apple) shows that users love it. And we’ve just launched two novel new products (on top of our current service lines). Insurance: we’re the first to get the regulatory approval and build the tech to actually do the full insurance discovery and purchase journey as an agent for the user (not just give them a link to the best deal). Subscription management: lots of companies use open banking to draw pretty graphs - we’re the first to use it to actively save people money starting by cancelling unwanted subscriptions for them. It would be easy to look at this and think we’ve got it all figured out. But our ambitions are SO much higher; we’ve only scratched the surface. We’ve started with bills because ‘change begins at home’ - it’s a naturally low-interest, messy area of our lives which most of us don’t want to think about. Similar to how Amazon started with books as their first category to go after. What we’re building is an agent to take some of the load of life, make good decisions and act for us in areas we can’t or don’t want to act on our own. ‘Talk is cheap. Action is what really matters’. For an agent, advice is cheap. Action is the product. And action means solving problems in the messy real world. There are so many interesting problems https://www.nous.co/careers we are in the infancy of solving. Just as an example - user’s trust us with their Open Banking data - but it’s just lists of transactions. How can we use that stream of information and combine it with all the other data we have, to reduce friction from their lives? A NOTE ON PRODUCT There’s ‘product’ as in the web application that guides our users through the complex world of bills and household admin and acts as their interface to our management service, as well as all the behind the scenes capabilities needed to orchestrate and deliver that service - actually saving our users money and time. Try it here: app.nous.co/signup http://app.nous.co/signup (it’s free!) Then there’s ‘product’ as experienced by our users - which is a service which makes life simple and fair. To deliver this we’ve built a set of powerful capabilities that let us run and improve the service efficiently at scale: agentic communication, multimodal data extraction, orchestration for long-running operational processes, recommendations, our own agentic harness, and more. We compose these into executable workflows that deliver real outcomes for members, like switching someone to a better energy deal without the hassle. Today, we help manage six areas of household spending: Energy, Mobile, Broadband, Mortgage, Personal finances (e.g., managing subscriptions), and Insurance. But we’re just getting started. Behind the scenes, we’ve built the technology (we call it Blueprints) that acts as rails for us to quickly expand on the breadth and depth of our service lines. THE ROLE We need your help building a world-class product that will be used regularly by millions of people; and figuring out, together, what it really takes to absorb household complexity. As a product engineer, we empower you with context to enable fast iterations, end-to-end ownership and lots of agency. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader on some of the highest-leverage areas of our codebase, from building out agentic capabilities to scaling our service logic. Some examples: - Anton led and shipped an entire product line around open banking and subscription management three months after joining. Yes, he had support from legal, design, commercial and his team (we even became FCA registered). But one product engineer still took it from idea to a best-in-class product in the category. - Ed led the our latest Blueprint architecture, which now powers every service line. Cha