Product Engineer

🧬 About Sano

Mission; what we do

• accelerating the world’s transition to personalised medicine

Purpose; why we do it

• to speed up development of life-saving treatments for those with limited options
  

Vision; where we’re going

• become the world’s best source of patient-in-the-loop genomic and health data for precision medicine development

👉 Curious to dive deeper? Read more about what we do here

Brief into to the role, who they are reporting to,...

Headlines:

• Role - Product Engineer

• Salary - 80,000 - 90,000

• Location - UK (remote only)

How you’ll make an impact:

• Identifying and prioritising the right problems to solve , focusing on meaningful customer outcomes and making smart trade-offs to maximise impact with limited time and resources.

• Owning features end-to-end , from early discovery and technical input through design, implementation, testing, and release.

• Building and evolving core product capabilities , with an immediate impact on the reliability, scalability, and usability of our platform.

• Iterating quickly and pragmatically , using your judgement and experience to balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

• Shaping technical direction in a small team , contributing to architectural decisions and helping define how we build and ship product.

• Collaborating closely across the business , setting a high bar for communication through clear documentation, thoughtful proposals, and well-structured code.

• Championing strong engineering practices , continuously improving how we work and supporting teammates through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions.

This job is for you if you:

• Have hands-on experience building and shipping production software , using languages and frameworks such as Go, Python, or Ruby on Rails.

• Enjoy working in small, high-trust teams , collaborating closely with other engineers and giving clear, constructive feedback to move work forward.

• Take a product-first approach to engineering , partnering with Product to understand customer needs and prioritising outcomes and impact over purely technical perfection.

• Are comfortable operating with ambiguity , contributing to early-stage thinking, helping shape solutions, and refining ideas as you learn more.

• Thrive in iterative environments , sharing work early (even when it’s not “done”), gathering feedback, and adapting quickly based on input.

• Balance speed with quality , making pragmatic decisions around technical debt, testing, and documentation to ship valuable features without over-engineering.

• Care about building maintainable systems , and are thoughtful about how today’s trade-offs affect the product and team over time.

Even better if you have:

• Experience designing or working with APIs , especially where data integrity, versioning, and backwards compatibility really matter.

• Exposure to data pipelines or data-heavy systems , particularly where data quality, validation, or traceability are important (experience with regulated or sensitive data is a bonus, but not required).

• Experience working in a remote-first team , comfortable collaborating asynchronously and communicating clearly across time zones.

This role is unlikely to be a great match if:

• You need very clear direction or tightly scoped tasks to do your best work — this role involves a lot of autonomy and self-direction.

• You’re most comfortable in highly defined roles and processes , rather than adapting as priorities, scope, and problems evolve.

• You prefer working on purely technical tasks , with limited exposure to product decisions, customer context, or business trade-offs.

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don't let our role description hold you back, get applying!

🔍 Hiring Process

1. 📞 Hiring manager call with Lisa

2. 💡 Take home tech test ~2hrs

3. 🙌 Panel discussion with our engineers totalling 90 mins:

   1. Half an hour discussion on the tech test

   2. Hour systems design test

4. ⭐️ Founder Interview

Support - If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best - please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed. All interviews at Sano take place virtually. Please let us know if we can help make a virtual interview run smoother for you.

🛑 Please note:

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK or in the USA (for specific roles). We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

At Sano, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Sano. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.