Department: Tech - Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Zinc - London
Reporting To: Rob Leonard
Compensation: £75,000 - £80,000 / year
We are expanding our engineering team to boost our development capacity and take our product to the next level. As a Senior Product Engineer, you’ll play a central role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, building high-quality features, influencing system architecture, and ensuring we deliver a product that’s efficient, robust, and a delight for thousands of customers to use.
You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and customers to deeply understand problems, translate them into elegant technical solutions, and help decide not only what we build but how we build it for long-term success.
Building powerful features 🚀 – Design and deliver high-impact solutions that are clean, scalable, and built to last, delighting thousands of customers.
Shaping the big picture 🎯 – Work with Product, Design, and customers to define what we build and how we build it for long-term success.
Keeping things running smoothly 🛠️ – Maintain, optimise, and secure our systems so they perform at their best, even at scale.
Problem-solving like a pro 🧠 – Lead the charge on tricky technical challenges, turning complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions.
Mentoring and leading 🤝 – Support and guide other engineers, sharing knowledge and raising the technical bar for the team.
Staying ahead of the game 📚 – Keep up with new tools, trends, and best practices, helping us continuously evolve our stack and processes.
Owning your work end-to-end 🎨 – Take full responsibility from initial idea to production, making sure every detail delivers value to users.
Hard skills ⚡
Full Stack Development 💻 – Advanced skills with Node.js (Express/Nest.js) and modern frontend frameworks like Vue/Nuxt or React/Next, building smooth, scalable experiences end-to-end.
TypeScript & JavaScript Mastery 📜 – Deep, hands-on expertise delivering production-grade applications using modern JS/TS best practices.
System Design & Architecture 🏗️ – Proven ability to create scalable, maintainable, and high-performance systems that stand the test of time.
Database & Cloud ☁️ – Strong experience with MongoDB and AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway) for robust, cloud-native solutions.
DevOps & CI/CD 🚀 – Skilled at creating and managing pipelines, automated deployments, and infrastructure-as-code to keep things shipping smoothly.
Testing & Quality Assurance 🧪 – Proficient with tools like Jest and Cypress to ensure quality, reliability, and confidence in every release.
Highly Collaborative 🤝 – Thrives in cross-functional teams, working closely with engineers, designers, and product to deliver exceptional results.
Product-Minded 🚀 – Always focused on customer impact, thinking beyond code to how features improve the user experience and meet business goals.
Clear Communicator 🗣️ – Able to explain technical decisions simply, provide constructive feedback, and make complex ideas accessible to all stakeholders.
Kind & Supportive ❤️ – Builds a positive, respectful team culture, lifting others up and working with humility and empathy.
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
At Zinc, we believe that background checks should be instant, easy, and delightful. Yes, you read that right.
Traditional background checking providers are slow, manual, and error-prone — Zinc’s here to change that.
Here’s how it works:
Step one: Select your checks
With Zinc you get exactly the checks you want, and no extras you don’t. Make your own templates and re-use them, or use our pre-built packages to align with any regulatory check requirements.
Zinc offers global checks in over 190 countries, including:
Credit checks
Address verification
Reference checks
Qualification checks
For a full list, visit https://zincwork.com/checks.
Step two: Tell Zinc who you’re checking
Enter your candidate or employee’s name and email address, then click “Request checks.”
The rest is easy: Candidates use our mobile-friendly platform to submit any required information, referee names, and additional documents. We’ll even chase references for you.
Here’s what Becca Covill, HR Operations Specialist at Jensten, said about Zinc references:
“When we’ve used different providers, there was a lot of manual intervention required. But with Zinc, we’ve been able to put them in, click a button, and it just runs.”
To stay in the loop, just visit your Zinc dashboard and get at-a-glance updates.
Learn more about Zinc’s commitment to candidate experience here: https://zincwork.com/candidates
Step three: Get results, fast
With direct HMRC integrations and automated workflows, Zinc delivers results fast. Like, really fast.
“Obviously I recommend Zinc, but an IDSP will change your life overnight. It had instant results.” — Zander Loftus, Recruitment Manager, Hexagon Care
View results directly in the Zinc platform, or get them delivered to your ATS or HRIS. Zinc integrates with platforms like Workday, Pinpoint, Greenhouse, and more. For a full list of our available integrations, visit https://zincwork.com/integrations.
