Encord

Product Engineer

1mo ago
EuropeMiddle
Encord

Product Engineer

1mo ago
EuropeMiddleapi designbackendfrontenddatabase schemaci/cdtesting

Build end-to-end product features from API and backend to UI for AI data platform.

About the company

  • Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.
  • Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

Responsibilities

  • As a Product Engineer at Encord, you'll be embedded at the core of our product — owning features end-to-end, from the API design and backend systems all the way through to the UI that annotation teams, ML engineers, and compliance officers use every day. You won't be handed specs; you'll help write them.
  • We care deeply about product craft, technical excellence, and shipping things that genuinely matter to our clients. If you have strong opinions about what good software looks and feels like — and the drive to make it happen — you'll fit right in.
  • Build scalable back-end systems and intuitive front-end interfaces — owning features from database schema to rendered UI
  • Work with ML workflows — developing tooling for model evaluation, active learning, and automated quality pipelines
  • Iterate rapidly on product and ship high-quality features at pace, maintaining strong CI/CD and testing practices throughout
  • Work closely with customers, product, and design to understand problems deeply and deliver solutions that create real impact
  • Contribute to shaping how the team works — our architecture decisions, engineering culture, and product direction are all open for input

Requirements

  • Strong full-stack engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping products you're proud of
  • Deep fluency in at least one high-level language (we use Python and TypeScript, but we care more about depth than the specific language)
  • Strong front-end skills — comfortable with building polished, responsive interfaces, ideally with React
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and containerised deployment (Kubernetes) is a plus
  • Experience building at scale in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment
  • Exposure to machine learning workflows or ML infrastructure is a plus

Other

  • You've seen and built a lot. You have personally developed and maintained multiple systems from scratch, and you know what trade-offs are involved in building reliable, performant software at speed
  • You want your work to have a tangible outcome for people. You're not satisfied with building products that do not see the light of day
  • You are a builder. You enjoy all aspects of building not only software but a complete product, and are comfortable moving across the stack when necessary.
  • You enjoy problem-solving and thinking from first principles, and are always ready to pick up new skills and build quickly
  • You're happy to tackle problems without a predefined, clear definition or obvious solution, and are excited to have autonomy to make decisions as you go
  • You understand that being a member of a high-performing team requires two things. You contribute your best work and help others contribute their best. You'll always lend a helping hand when needed and level up those around you
  • We are technology-agnostic at Encord and are not looking for experience across all of these — as long as you're open to learning, please apply.
  • Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
  • Strong in-person culture — most of the team works from our London office 4+ days/week
  • 25 days annual leave + UK public holidays
  • Annual learning & development budget
  • Travel for customer visits, events, and conferences across the UK and Europe
  • Company lunches twice a week
  • Monthly socials & bi-annual team offsites