About the team
Our Product and Engineering teams sit at the centre of students, employers, and education providers. Together, we design, build, and continuously improve digital products that power early careers recruitment, learning, and talent engagement—used by millions of students and thousands of organisations across the UK and beyond.
We operate in a highly collaborative environment where Product Managers and Product Engineers work closely together to shape, build, measure, and improve product experiences. Product Engineers are active contributors to product outcomes, combining strong engineering capability with product thinking, UX judgement, experimentation, and ownership.
About this role
As a Product Engineer, you will help shape and deliver product experiences across our early careers ecosystem. Working at the intersection of engineering, product, UX, and data, you will own initiatives from early concept through to launch, measurement, and optimisation; turning product strategy into experiences that resonate with Gen Z users.
You will be responsible for building and improving GTI's platforms, combining strong engineering capability with product thinking, UX intuition, behavioural analytics, experimentation, and AI-assisted development. Working closely with Product Managers, you will help improve engagement, conversion, usability, and overall product quality through continuous iteration and optimisation.
This role requires someone who combines engineering excellence with strong product judgement and a passion for user experience. You will be expected to take ownership beyond feature delivery, measuring impact, learning from user behaviour, and ensuring product improvements deliver meaningful outcomes for students, employers, and the wider business.
The ideal candidate will bring experience building high-engagement digital products and a passion for creating elegant user experiences for a Gen Z audience, alongside a strong interest in design, experimentation, analytics, and modern AI-enabled product development.
Key Metrics of Success
- End-to-end delivery speed and engineering efficiency – reduced time from discovery to release, increased throughput, fewer handovers, and effective use of AI/automation to accelerate delivery.
- Product impact and business outcomes – measurable improvements in engagement, conversion, retention, usage, and marketplace performance driven by shipped product work.
- Product quality and data-driven decision making – higher usability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability, supported by strong use of analytics, experimentation, and behavioural insight.
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Student Growth, Engagement & Marketplace Performance by improving acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, repeat usage, applications, and employer–candidate matching through continuous product iteration and optimisation.
- Exceptional User Experience & Product Quality by delivering fast, intuitive, accessible, mobile-first, and scalable experiences that reduce friction and improve task completion while maintaining high performance and maintainability.
- Data-Driven Product Performance & Decision-Making by embedding analytics, instrumentation, experimentation, feature flags, and monitoring into delivery so every product decision is validated against measurable impact on engagement, conversion, retention, or marketplace outcomes.
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Strong software engineering experience building customer-facing digital products.
- Experience working closely with Product Managers, Graphic Designers, and cross-functional teams.
- Strong product instincts and UX awareness.
- Comfortable using data and behavioural insight to improve products.
- Passion for elegant, user-centric experiences and product quality.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly.
- Proactive, curious, and highly motivated to take ownership of outcomes.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Interest in AI tools and modern engineering practices.
- Genuine enthusiasm for building products that improve outcomes for students.
Work Experience, Knowledge & Skills
- Experience building consumer-facing products, marketplaces, jobs boards, or high-engagement platforms
- Experience working with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and REST APIs
- Experience with analytics, experimentation, and A/B testing
- Experience contributing to design systems and component libraries
- Familiarity with GA4, GTM, feature flags, and behavioural analytics
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar
- Interest in Gen Z digital behaviours and user experience design
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Permanent role – 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm.
- 3-month probationary period.
Candidates applying for roles at GTI will be subject to background screening. You can find out more about our background screening and the recruitment of ex-offenders by reading our policies.
If you would like to speak to a member of our team to find out more information about this vacancy or you have any questions, please get in touch -
[email protected].
We aim to help students realise their potential in the world of work through technology, content and tools. That’s not an easy thing.
We believe in understanding students and partnering with employers, universities, schools and other technology providers.
It's about students finding the right role and employers finding the most suitable candidates. But it's more than that – it’s about helping young people discover options, develop and build confidence.
