Product Engineer

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Position Overview

This role builds software for ZURU's own teams — sited inside a business unit rather than a central engineering office. The Junior Engineer owns one problem end to end, from the first conversation with the person who has it to the thing running in production. There is no spec handoff. The business owner names the outcome with the engineer sitting next to them. A separate organization owns ZURU's external product engineering — this role is internal.

Position Impact

At 6 months, the engineer reaches a Go/No-Go decision with the business inside 5 days of assignment, has shipped at least one application that reached its target users, and holds no more than 3 ungraduated applications.

At 12 months and beyond, the engineer's work shortens the Group's ask-to-live median — the business days from an accepted ask to the thing live in the asker's hands. Applications reach measured weekly-active adoption against their target population, and each one takes a clean exit — graduating onto the supported estate, retiring, or moving to the team that runs packaged systems.

Who you are:

You can sit with a finance, sales, or operations team and work out what they actually do. You direct coding agents well and can tell when the output is wrong. You read and reason about code, and you ship working software — not prototypes. You've built something another person went on to use. Engineering years are not the bar — candidates from finance, sales, or operations who can direct an agent against a standard are in scope.

Key Responsibilities

Discovery in Place

Work inside the business unit and find the context nobody wrote down — the spreadsheet, the manual join, the workaround everyone stopped noticing.

Validation in Days

Drive to a Go/No-Go decision with the business inside 5 days of assignment.

The artifact sits on the paved path from the first commit — so a no costs a week rather than a project.

Build on the Rails

Start every build on the internal tooling that resolves current standards and their automated checks into the repository.

The standards live in the work, not in a review meeting.

End-to-End Ownership

Validate, build, and hold the application until it graduates.

The artifact does not change hands.

Directing Agents

Direct coding agents against established patterns and judge the output — rather than starting from a blank page.

Consuming Platforms

Take governed data and the paved path as products other teams own.

Raise a gap in either rather than routing around it.

Graduation & Estate Hygiene

Make each application reproducible from a clean clone — with the capability version pinned, a runbook in the repository, telemetry wired, an SLO defined, and alerts routed to a rote.

Hold 3 or fewer ungraduated applications at any time.

Skills & Experience

Can sit with a finance, sales, or operations team and work out what they actually do

Directs coding agents well — and can tell when the output is wrong

Reads and reasons about code, and ships working software rather than prototypes

Has built something that another person went on to use

Business-unit background welcome — engineering years are not the bar; candidates from finance, sales, or operations who can direct an agent against a standard are in scope

LIFE@ZURU

ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).

At ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.

At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.

Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com.

WHAT WE OFFER

🌱 Culture for Growth

🧘 Health Benefits

🌎 Global Opportunities

💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team

💰 Competitive Remuneration

🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional)

ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀

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