Senior Product Engineer

What we do at Codat

Codat helps banks create stronger, data-driven relationships with their business customers. Our platform makes it easy for banks to access, synchronize, and interpret data from customers' financial software, enabling critical use cases such as supplier onboarding for commercial card and virtual card programs, and underwriting business loans.

We empower the world's largest banks to grow share of wallet, reduce churn, and scale operations efficiently. Codat is backed by leading investors, including JP Morgan, Canapi Ventures, Shopify, Plaid, Tiger Global, PayPal Ventures, Index Ventures, and American Express Ventures.

Who do we need, and why?

We are looking for a highly experienced and product-minded Senior/Staff Product Engineer to join our team. You will be a technical leader and a mentor, playing a pivotal role in shaping our product vision and technical direction while driving the delivery of high-quality, well-designed, and user-friendly applications. You will make significant contributions to our technology stack and best practices, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

The Role

As a Senior/Staff Product Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader with a balance of frontend and backend responsibilities. Your experience will cover:

• Technical Leader & Mentor: Passionate about mentoring and elevating the technical capabilities of the team. You will act as a technical mentor to other engineers, sharing your expertise and guiding them in best practices for design, development, and support of full-stack solutions
• Strategic & Tactical: Balancing big-picture vision with hands-on execution
• Action-oriented and eager to take ownership of projects and initiatives
• Driving Technical Strategy: Contributing significantly to team discussions, helping solve complex technical challenges, and proactively identifying opportunities to improve our technology stack and engineering practices. You will influence our technical roadmap and architectural decisions, bringing innovative solutions and staying at the forefront of modern full-stack technologies and frameworks
• Product Ownership: Taking a leading role in designing, developing, and supporting impactful projects, ensuring seamless user experiences with observability baked in. You will champion a strong product mindset with a keen eye for user experience and system design
• Passionate about code quality, maintainability, observability and best practices across the platform
• Proactive and collaborative approach to problem-solving
• Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, balancing speed and quality while demonstrating an action-oriented approach and a strong desire for ownership to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently
• Enthusiastic about working with modern full-stack technologies and frameworks
• A team player who fosters effective collaboration between engineering teams and stakeholders. You will ensure alignment and seamless handoffs
• Leveraging current and new AI solutions to streamline operations and maximise output, staying at the forefront of changes in AI tools to enhance your role and productivity, while upskilling others in their use

What you’ll bring to the team

• Demonstrated experience in mentoring engineers of all levels
• Experience leading technical initiatives and contributing to architectural decisions
• Extensive experience working across the full stack, including frontend, backend, and the data layer
• Deep proficiency with modern frontend technologies, including React and TypeScript. Experience with Svelte would be preferable
• Proven track record building and optimising performant, accessible, and responsive web applications
• Extensive Object-Oriented programming experience (.NET and C# would be a strong plus)
• In-depth understanding of UI/UX best practices and creating great user experiences
• Strong knowledge of modern build tools, frameworks, and deployment processes
• Extensive experience with testing frameworks for both frontend and backend (Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress, xUnit, or similar)
• Significant familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based deployment (experience with Azure would be advantageous)
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes (K8s)
• Strong awareness of security best practices
• Computer science degree or similar