Role : Product Engineer

Reporting To : Buildscout Commercial Director

Salary : £80,000 - £100,000 dependent on experience

Working Location : Hybrid/ London (3 days a week on site at our Old Street office)

Please note that this role is for our Buildscout platform

About Buildscout

Buildscout is revolutionising lead generation for the UK construction industry. We use real-time planning application data to help contractors, developers, and tradespeople secure high‑quality, location‑specific jobs before the competition and with minimal hassle.

We deliver reliable, guaranteed leads, automate the entire outreach process — from planning data filtering to sending conversion‑optimised letters and follow‑ups, and provide a user-friendly dashboard to track campaigns and measure ROI in real time

Buildscout is backed and supported by Searchland, the UK’s leading B2B prop-tech company transforming how businesses and individuals access and leverage property data. This role will be reporting to Buildscout's Commercial Director and be supported by Searchland Chief Product Officer for technical input and expertise.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Product Engineer — someone who can blend full-stack development with some product management expertise and a touch of design sensibility. You’ll work end-to-end on user-facing features, from understanding the problem, shaping the solution, building it, and shipping it fast.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys solving user problems, collaborating cross-functionally, and owning the full lifecycle of a feature — from sketch to shipped.

Your responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain full-stack features across our platform — including UI, backend APIs, and database logic
Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code using modern technologies (e.g. TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL)
Perform maintenance and optimization on the existing platform.
Decide what tools and features to implement (and when) based on customer needs, industry insights, and data.
Help shape technical specs during planning sessions by contributing engineering input on scope and effort
Build features with reusability and user experience in mind — understanding common SaaS patterns (auth, billing, dashboards, etc.)
Occasionally jump into Figma or tweak UI flows to keep momentum high when design support isn’t immediately available

Essential Requirements

Right to work in the UK
5+ years experience leading software development for a SaaS platform
Experience working in a solo product and or development role and working into lean teams
Familiarity with agile processes, sprints, and iterative development to ship high-quality products efficiently
Experience with the following stack
NextJS
PostgresJS
BullMQ

Experience - Desired

Previous experience in PropTech and/or start up environments
Understanding of the UK property/construction market would be a huge plus.
Familiarity with
TRPC
ShadCDN
DrizzleORM
Elasticsearch

Interview Process

15 minute introductory call with HR Team
A technical task stage before a 30 minute interview with one of our Senior Software Engineers
A 30 minute call with Buildscout’s Commercial Director

What we offer

Flexibility on location & hours
Employee EMI Scheme
25 days annual leave + bank holidays off
Your birthday day off and Christmas office shutdown as gifted leave
A MacBook and home office equipment: monitor, mouse, keyboard, HDMI adapter for working from home as standard
1st week of the month is free lunch and work drinks
Team building activities such as team bake-off, 3 Peaks and more

Searchland

Company Overview