Product Engineer

• Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We're just getting started.

• Build world-class product. Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable systems and user-facing product experiences that customers depend on.

• Translate messy problems into dependable software. Work from first principles to turn ambiguous requirements into clear, maintainable, production-ready solutions.

• Ship fast and iterate constantly. Deliver quickly, learn from real feedback, and refine the product week by week with direct access to customers.

• Own end-to-end execution. Take full ownership of projects across frontend, backend, and deployment—from design to implementation to monitoring and maintenance.

• Drive clarity, velocity, and long-term quality. Establish patterns, improve engineering practices, and help shape technical direction as Ankar's mission evolves.

• Partner deeply with product and customers. Collaborate closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams to ensure what we build is useful, usable, and impactful.

• You ship meaningful product improvements weekly and build trust through consistent execution.

• You proactively identify what the product needs next, not just what's assigned.

• You raise the bar for quality and velocity through strong engineering judgment.

• You design systems that scale with users and maintainability over time.

• Location: Shoreditch, London (we operate an office first policy with flexibility)

• Contract: Full-time

• Compensation: We pay competitive salaries and will reward you with a substantial equity package under the tax-efficient EMI scheme.

• Visa sponsorship: Yes

You're a product-minded, critical builder. You care deeply about what you build, and you have a track record of turning ideas into software that real users love.

• You're high agency. You take initiative, own outcomes end-to-end, and don't wait for perfect direction to move forward.
• You thrive in fast-paced environments. You're energized by rapid iteration, tight feedback loops, and the reality that "done" is always evolving.
• You're grounded and thoughtful. You balance speed with quality and design systems that stay maintainable under real-world constraints.
• You're excited about AI and its impact. You have demonstrated interest in AI through work experience, projects, or open-source contributions—and you're motivated to build at the frontier.

To ensure this is aligned with a senior engineer bar, here are clear minimum requirements:

• Experience owning projects independently, including scoping, execution, rollout, and iteration based on feedback.
• Strong systems thinking: ability to design reliable, maintainable software and debug complex issues across the stack.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to work directly with customers when needed.
• Strong product intuition and experience partnering with design/product on user workflows.
• Experience in fast-moving startups or high-ownership environments.
• Open-source contributions or strong portfolio of shipped work.
• Our stack: Java, Python, Elastic, Postgres, React, TypeScript