Job Title: Product Engineer
Salary: £50000-75000 , depending on experience
Job Type: Full time, permanent role
Location: 4 days remote, 1 day in-office (primarily Wednesdays- Liphook, Hampshire)
Experience: We’re looking for an experienced Product Engineer specialising in Ruby on Rails. You'll need strong foundations in architecture and performance, alongside experience building complex, production systems. The role requires strong stakeholder relationships, with the ability to communicate clearly and build trust across technical and non-technical teams, alongside a product-focused mindset that prioritises solving the right problems to deliver meaningful business outcomes.
Rocksteady Music School is the UK’s largest rock and pop school. We teach fun and inclusive in-school band lessons to primary age children. Our mission is simple: to amplify children's self-belief and remove barriers to music education. We’re currently in thousands of schools in the UK, teaching tens of thousands of children every week – and we’re growing fast.
Our two offices in Liphook and Birmingham are home to our central office teams, supporting the scale of our business. From there, we all play our part in supporting our band leaders to reach as many children as possible with their lessons. We are a community of music lovers using our individual talents to help give children the self-belief to succeed. That’s what gets us out of bed in the morning.
We are seeking a Product Engineer to build and maintain the software systems that connect Rocksteady's staff, schools, families and children into coordinated, structured outputs.
The Product Engineer is a technology partner to the business, not a task executor or service desk. This role exists to understand real problems, challenge assumptions and build the right solutions in close collaboration with stakeholders.
As a Product Engineer you will:
- Act as the named technology partner for assigned business domains, building trusted stakeholder relationships and providing contextual support
- Attend domain stakeholder team meetings or stand ups, in person where possible
- Lead assigned workstreams end-to-end: understand the problem, plan the work, deliver the outcome
- Write Technical Plans defining how work will be implemented
- Build the software
- Demo work in progress to stakeholders before shipping and take ownership of what is shipped
- Proactively explore solutions to problems, asking the right questions of stakeholders, data and strategy
- Build relationships with stakeholders and help stakeholders articulate needs, into the intake process
- Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and ensure the domain roadmap is accurate
As a Product Engineer you’ll need:
- A minimum of 5 years in Product Engineering/Software Development
- Experience in modern-but-well-established tools e.g. React, React Native, Ruby on Rails
- Ability to adapt and embrace evolving tools and methods to produce reliable, production-ready code
- Solid understanding of system architecture, data modelling, security and performance principles
- Experience working on complex, business-critical systems
- Analytical thinking, including debugging and performance optimisation
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Confidence presenting, demoing and engaging with stakeholders regularly
- Curiosity about business operations and what drives value and outcomes
- A product mindset, focusing on solving the right problems before building solutions
- Good judgment on when to act autonomously and when to escalate
- Awareness of team and business priorities, and how your work contributes to them
Benefits
- Full-time position; 35 hours per week; Monday-Friday
- 4 days remote, 1 day in-office (primarily Wednesdays- Liphook, Hampshire)
- Long service award: an additional 4 weeks’ pay after 5 years
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Free onsite parking at the Liphook office
- Personal development opportunities
- Comprehensive benefits package including discounts on everyday purchases, free 24/7 GP service.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Celebratory staff away-days, Christmas parties and social events.
- Opportunities to work with the Rocksteady Foundation, reaching children and young people in charities and support groups across the UK.
Every once in a while, you get the chance to be part of something really special. When you join Rocksteady, you know immediately that you’ve found it. We might be growing fast but we pay special attention to protecting our unique working culture and ensuring everyone feels comfortable to be themselves at work. We look out for each other, welcome new colleagues as friends and stay true to our small-company roots; rolling up our sleeves if a job needs doing, solving problems together and, most importantly, always putting the children first. Likeminded people are joining us and we’re reaching more and more children with our lessons every week. We keep growing because we’re driven by our passion for the life-changing nature of music.
Join us and use your skills for good.
Your Passion. Their Future.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and expect all our staff to share this commitment.
As this role involves regular work with children and young people, and meets the definition of regulated activity, it is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 you must disclose all unprotected unspent and spent cautions and convictions. Further details on what convictions must be declared can be found in the Governments Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975.You can find out more about our policy on recruitment of ex-offenders here.
If you are offered this position, Rocksteady will ask you to complete an enhanced DBS check with a children's barred list check.
It is an offence for an individual who has been barred from working with children to apply for regulated activity. Providing false information is also an offence and could result in the rejection of the applicant, summarily dismissal if selected, and possible referral to the police.
Rocksteady Music School is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to the fair treatment of staff, potential staff, and of our services, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability, or offending background.
To find out more about Rocksteady, check out our website www.rocksteadymusicschool.com
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