Product Engineer

• Contribute to the successful delivery of impactful features utilising agentic tooling (e.g., Claude, Cursor), directly advancing Arbor products.
• Collaborate on evolving our agentic ecosystem by encoding domain knowledge, building reusable skills/agents, and defining robust system guardrails.
• Take ownership for quality/testing for new and existing features, ensuring good coverage and reliability standards.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve system bugs and issues using strong problem-solving skills and growing system knowledge.
• Produce well-architected and efficient changes by leveraging established design patterns and agentic frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, QE, DevOps and Product Managers to address and own feature requests.
• Actively participate in team ceremonies and support the implementation of strategies to improve product quality and ways of working.
• Support the Tech Lead and Senior Engineers in technical debt identification, reduction and implementing technical roadmap solutions.
• Foster knowledge transfer within the team, ensuring clear communication and offering guidance to junior engineers.
• Actively participate in tech talks, workshops, and team-based learning initiatives

• Demonstrated background in software development, preferably within an AI-first environment
• Experience of working in a fast paced scale up or enterprise organisation.
• Solid experience with PHP
• Strong examples of exploring and utilising agentic development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude) across the SDLC/PDLC.
• Good understanding of how to interact with LLMs, encode context effectively, and build reusable skills.
• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and basic data modelling.
• Proven experience owning and delivering technical projects with impactful results and moderate supervision.
• Experience integrating APIs or MCPs within a service-oriented environment.
• Understanding of outcome focused MVP and agile development processes
• Possesses excellent written and spoken English skills, with the ability to communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A driven team player who actively participates in discussions and readily offers assistance to others.
• Experience or knowledge of distributed systems, cloud environments, microservices, and containerization.

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Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. 

Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively  encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

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