Product Engineer (all levels)
- Role
- Product
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Startup
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👋 Hi, I’m Sina, CTO at Nous.
I’ve spent my entire career in startups, starting my first company when I was a teenager, and navigated many 0→1 journeys (including starting the largest social network of its time in my home country).
The common thread that led me here is finding complexity that wastes people’s time or money, then solving for making them disappear. And that’s exactly what Nous aims to do.
If this problem space resonates, please read on.
PS: I’ve actually written this page with my hands; this is not AI-written content!
ABOUT NOUS
Roughly 90% of UK households are overpaying on their bills. Nous is an agent to absorb complexity out of households, saving them money and time. Our mission is to make people’s lives simpler and fairer, starting with the 30 million households here in the UK, and soon far beyond.
Nous is growing fast, and it’s working. 20x YoY growth makes us one of the fastest scaling startups in the UK. And NPS of +70 (higher than Apple) shows that our users love it.
We’ve just launched two novel new products (on top of our current service lines). Insurance: we’re the first to get the regulatory approval and build the tech to actually do the full insurance discovery and purchase journey as an agent for the user (not just give them a link to the best deal). Subscription management: lots of companies use open banking to draw pretty graphs - we’re the first to use it to actively save people money starting by cancelling unwanted subscriptions for them.
It would be easy to look at this and think we’ve got it all figured out.
But we’ve only scratched the surface; our ambitions are SO much higher. We started with bills because ‘change begins at home’ - it’s a naturally low-interest, messy area of our lives which most of us don’t want to think about. Similar to how Amazon started with books as their first category to go after.
‘Talk is cheap. Action is what really matters’. What we’re building is an agent to take some of the load of life, make good decisions and act for us in areas we can’t or don’t want to act on our own. For an agent, advice is cheap. Action is the product. And action means solving problems in the messy real world.
A NOTE ON PRODUCT
There’s ‘product’ as in the web application that guides our users through the complex world of bills and household admin. It acts as their interface to our management service, as well as all the behind the scenes capabilities needed to orchestrate and deliver that service - actually saving our users money and time. Try it here: app.nous.)
Then there’s ‘product’ as experienced by our users - which is a service which makes life simple and fair. To deliver this we’ve built a set of powerful capabilities that let us run and improve the service efficiently at scale: agentic communication, multimodal data extraction, orchestration for long-running operational processes, recommendations, our own agentic harness, and more. We compose these into executable workflows that deliver real outcomes for members, like switching someone to a better energy deal without the hassle.
Today, we help manage six areas of household spending: Energy, Mobile, Broadband, Mortgage, Personal finances (e.g., managing subscriptions), and Insurance. But we’re just getting started. Behind the scenes, we’ve built the technology (we call it Blueprints) that acts as rails for us to quickly expand on the breadth and depth of our service lines.
THE ROLE
We need your help building a world-class product that will be used regularly by millions of people; which means figuring out, together, what it really takes to absorb household complexity.
As a product engineer, we'll empower you with context to enable fast iterations, end-to-end ownership and lots of agency. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader on some of the highest-leverage areas of our codebase, from building out agentic capabilities to scaling our service logic.
Some examples of the types of problems you'll solve:
- Anton led and shipped an entire product line around open banking and subscription management three months after joining. Yes, he had support from legal, design, commercial and his team (we even became FCA registered). But one product engineer still took it from idea to a best-in-class product in the category.
- Ed led the our latest Blueprint architecture, which now powers every service line. Changes to complex, long-running workflows that once took weeks can now sometimes take minutes. All safely, reliably and with full type safety.
- Tim led and shipped our car insurance product line, in less than 3 months. We built a journey where an agent performs the discovery and purchase journeys - something that's not been done before and needed problem solving at the intersection of engineering, product and regulatory.
- As a team, we built our own a
What you'll do
- Building a world-class product that will be used regularly by millions of people
- Figuring out what it really takes to absorb household complexity
- Being a hands-on technical leader on some of the highest-leverage areas of the codebase, from building out agentic capabilities to scaling service logic
Nous is an AI agent that takes some of the load of life: making good decisions and acting for people in areas where they're not the experts, or aren't paying enough attention. We started with bills, where we're already saving households thousands, and we're now expanding into new categories. Think Amazon starting with books. It's working. 20x year-on-year growth makes us one of the fastest-scaling startups in the UK, and an NPS of +70 (higher than Apple) says our users love it. On top of bill optimisation, we've just launched two more products: insurance, where we're the first in the UK to get regulatory approval to run the full discovery-and-purchase journey as an agent (not just hand you a link). And subscription management, where we use Open Banking to actively cancel unwanted subscriptions for people, rather than just draw them a pretty graph. We're a certified B Corp, and that's how we hold ourselves to the mission rather than just talking about it. We've stacked the deck: a founding team with multiple exits, and investors including the founders of Monzo, Wise, Booking.com, lastminute.com, Onfido, Funding Circle, Tide and Habito. The problems are hard, and that's the point. Talk is cheap, and that goes for agents too. To have real impact, an agent has to break out of the sandbox and act in the real world, where there are consequences. That means solving all the thorny, frustrating, genuinely interesting problems the real world throws up.