Senior Product Engineer

Hi 👋 I’m Dom, VP of Engineering at Pinpoint.

We’re a high-growth HR tech company building software that helps in-house recruitment teams attract, hire, and onboard the right talent. Today, we have a strong foundation in place, with a mature product, rapid growth, strong product–market fit, and happy customers.

As the business scales, we're moving away from large horizontal teams toward small, verticalized squads, each one owning a specific area of the platform end-to-end alongside a product manager and designer. We're hiring Senior Product Engineers who are genuinely excited by that model.

This isn't a role for engineers who build what they're told. You'll be embedded in the problem from the start: understanding real customer workflows, debating trade-offs, shaping solutions, building them, and standing behind them in production. There's no separate discovery phase, no handoff, and no "throw it over the wall" model. Squads own performance, reliability, and quality for everything they build.

We want engineers who build deep context over time and use that understanding to make better product decisions every day, not bespoke client solutions. If you care about owning a problem space, not just shipping tickets, this role was built for you.

The fine print (but a bit more exciting):
• This is a remote role based in the UK or Poland, with occasional in-person team meetups.
• Our product is a configurable, platform-style ATS serving multiple personas: recruiters, hiring managers, and operations teams across a wide range of complex workflows
• Our stack is pragmatic and maintainable: Ruby on Rails (6.x), React with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, and CI/CD via CircleCI (moving to GitHub Actions).
• Pinpoint is still very much in startup mode. Priorities shift, not everything is perfectly defined, and we expect people to operate well in that environment.
• Curious about how we think and build? Our engineers write about it here.
• Our values actually matter here. We hire people who reflect them in how they work, collaborate, and make decisions.

Responsibilities:
• Build full-stack features using Ruby on Rails and React (TypeScript) within a small, focused squad.
• Own your product area end-to-end: from understanding real customer workflows and edge cases through to delivery, performance, and ongoing quality.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical trade-offs, not just implementation.
• Help translate product needs and constraints into clean, maintainable solutions.
• Review code, mentor others, and raise the technical bar within your squad.
• Engage continuously with customer context, building the kind of in-depth product understanding that improves your technical decisions over time.

Requirements:
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production web applications.
• 3+ years of production experience with Ruby on Rails.
• 3+ years building React applications in a production environment.
• Comfortable working with TypeScript (our frontend codebase uses it throughout).
• Background in startup or scale-up B2B SaaS environments.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking end-to-end ownership.
• Experience working on multi-persona, workflow-heavy SaaS products.
• Strong written communication — clear, direct, and able to explain technical decisions to non-engineers.
• Technically curious with a genuine interest in the problem space, not just the code.
• Experience writing automated tests (RSpec, Jest, or similar).

FAQs

What squad openings do you have?
We have openings across three squads. Here's where you could land:
• Workflow: Own the core recruitment experience end-to-end, from the moment a vacancy is raised through to an offer being signed.
• AI: Work at the intersection of applied AI and real recruitment workflows. The AI squad owns Pinpoint's customer-facing AI features,
• Delta: Instead of owning a single product area, you'll move across the platform responding to high-value customer needs that require fast product changes. Shorter cycles, more variety, and more direct customer contact than any other squad.

How are squads structured?
Small, cross-functional teams: one PM, one designer, and two to five engineers. Each squad owns a specific area of the platform end-to-end—backlog, quality, performance, and all.

What areas of the product do squads own?
We have verticals across Workflow, Candidate Experience, Onboarding, Marketplace, Platform & Reporting, and Integrations, alongside an AI squad and a Delta Squad for fast-moving, complex client work. Engineers typically join a squad and build deep context in that area over time.

Do engineers do support rotations?
No formal rotation. Dedicated support teams handle incoming tickets, though engineers may occasionally help with technically complex issues in their area.

What does ‘senior’ mean here?
You’re a strong individual contributor who takes real ownership, contributes to technical direction, and helps raise the standard of the people around you. This isn’t a people management role.

What’s the sprint cadence?
Two-week sprints.

How do you handle QA and technical debt?
Quality is owned by the team. We have strong automated testing and encourage engineers to address technical debt as part of their day-to-day work, not in a separate cleanup sprint.

What does the first 90 days look like?
By 30 days, you’re comfortable with the codebase, the stack, and your squad’s product area. By 60 days, you’re shipping independently and contributing to squad planning. By 90 days, you’re a trusted owner of your area—making technical decisions, raising quality, and building genuine product context.

Benefits:
We want Pinpoint to be the best place you’ve ever worked—somewhere you feel valued, supported, and excited to grow. Here’s what you’ll get:
• Comprehensive healthcare – Excellent medical, dental, & vision coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited holidays – Take the time you need to rest and recharge
• Mental health support – Unlimited, immediate access to professional counseling via Spill
• Retirement contributions – 401k or pension contributions depending on your location
• Remote-first – Work where you’re most productive, with flexibility and trust as the default
• Equity with real upside – Share in the long-term value you help create
• Fully paid parental leave – Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Learning budget – Annual funds for courses, books, or anything that supports your growth

A detailed overview of our benefits can be found here.