Product Engineer

About Flash Pack:

When was the last time you made a new friend? Friendship profoundly improves our emotional wellbeing, sense of belonging, purpose and happiness. Everyone wants more human connection but making new friends is really hard. That’s why we exist, with a mission to create one million meaningful friendships across the globe, using the power of travel and technology as a platform for connection.

We are Flash Pack - curated social adventures for solo travellers.

We’re a marketplace, so we actually serve two types of customers: solo travellers and the local partners who bring our adventures to life.

Our business is growing year-on-year and backed by strong investor support. Our culture is down-to-earth, hard-working, and compassionate. We’re lucky to have an exceptional team in terms of talent, and our “no a-holes” policy ensures we’re humble and supportive of each other. Integrity is at the heart of our work - we’re driven to do what’s right and to build a company that makes us genuinely proud.

What you’ll find here:

• A culture built around high performance, high conviction and humility. We value teamwork over grandiosity, great questions over corporate euphemisms and autonomy over conformity
  

• An ambitious high growth mid stage start-up with proven product market fit in over 15 global markets. We’re well-capitalised and backed by founders, investors and entrepreneurs who have built multi-billion dollar companies
  

• A highly collaborative team of ambitious and innovative people on a mission to create one million meaningful friendships across the globe, using the power of travel and technology as a platform for connection

You can find out more about our culture and life at Flash Pack here .

The Role:
We’re looking for a Product Engineer to join our team reporting to the Head of Engineering. You will develop product initiatives end-to-end, collaborate with Product and Design to shape hypotheses, build and ship full-stack features in React and TypeScript, and dig into analytics to understand how our users engage.

In this role, you’ll work on a wide range of features, spanning every part of our platform. You will craft intuitive user journeys, develop internal tools that speed up operations, and streamline workflows for both travellers and our operations teams. Your work will directly impact product quality and customer satisfaction - from refining website flows and optimising back-office processes to designing features that deliver value to our community.

If you measure success by customer impact rather than lines of code, you enjoy experimenting through A/B tests to validate ideas, and you get a kick out of watching users interact with something you shipped then this could be the role for you! You can expect autonomy, a culture of connection and continuous learning.

This is a remote-flexible role - in practice this means that we meet in person as a team every 6-8 weeks, and the rest of the time you can work remotely in the country the role is hired in (UK).

In line with our salary framework, the salary for this role is £75,000 - £90,000 depending on experience.

Where you will spend your time:

• Building features in a full-stack fashion using React and TypeScript

• Driving feature development by leading technical exploration, defining and scoping work collaboratively, and keeping everyone aligned

• Maintaining and refactoring different services, keeping the codebase clean for the next engineer

• Leveraging customer interviews and data insights, and collaborating with Product & Design to craft meaningful features that address users’ challenges

• Supporting product decisions through iterative development and lightweight experimentation, including A/B testing when useful

• Instrumenting analytics and event tracking so we can continually learn about our customers and improve their experience

What we’d love to see from you:

• Proven delivery of web products using React, TypeScript and modern front-end tooling, with clean, maintainable code

• Skilled at designing and extending systems, including building and maintaining APIs, working with databases (SQL or similar), and contributing to infrastructure when needed

• Data-driven decision-making - you frame problems with metrics, spot insights quickly and optimise for business impact

• Clear, collaborative communication that builds trust with engineers, designers, and stakeholders alike

• Driven by a growth mindset, you actively seek feedback and learning opportunities to level up your craft, and leverage new AI tools to improve your productivity and maximise your impact

• Hands-on experience in lean and autonomous teams, comfortable with ambiguity, minimal process, and rapid iteration. You favour pragmatic solutions over theoretical perfection.

We’re after the right person and if you don’t quite hit all the criteria, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’d love to chat and see if you could be a great fit for Flash Pack.

Logistics 🛠️:

Our interviews take place on Google Meet and usually consist of the following stages:

• An interview with the hiring manager to hear more about your background and experience and to give you a deep dive into the role (60 mins)

• A technical interview with our engineers to see how you’d solve a problem (60 mins)

• A culture and ways of working interview with our Head of Product to see if your ways of working are a match with ours (30 - 45 mins)

• Meet with one of our founders for any final questions you or we have (30 - 45 mins)

Some roles may have extra stages, but we will let you know as soon as possible in the process if this is the case.

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re led by a BAME, female CEO and building a diverse and inclusive team is incredibly important to us which is why we are building diversity and inclusion into the company hiring, performance and progression framework.

We see our diversity as a key competitive advantage which is why we are committed to hiring top talent regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or status as an individual with a disability.

If you have an additional accessibility or other requirement we haven’t considered, we will do our best to adapt and make sure your needs are met.

If you would like to talk to us about these efforts, or have suggestions for how we can do better, we would love to hear from you.

Once you apply, you will be sent a short Equality, Diversity & Inclusion survey , it would help us immensely if you can complete it.