Product Engineering
The people who ship.
Staff and Principal Engineers. Tech Leads. The senior IC track for the people who build product.
Product Engineering at Northstack
Our largest practice. We hire the senior individual contributors and engineering leaders who shape the technical direction of the UK’s most ambitious technology businesses.
The realistic shape of what we do: Staff and Principal Engineers at scaling consumer fintech, marketplace, and developer tools businesses. Engineering Managers and Directors at the same. Heads of Engineering and VPEs where the firm has grown past the point of founder-led engineering.
We are intentionally narrow. We do not hire junior or mid-level engineers. We do not work on traditional enterprise back-office roles. We do not try to be everything to everyone.
Where we focus
Staff and Principal Engineers. The senior IC track that most firms still under-invest in. We work hard at this — the candidates are scarce, the brief is harder to specify than most clients realise, and the difference between a good Staff hire and a great one is measured in years of compounding impact.
Engineering Leadership. Engineering Managers, Directors, Heads, VPEs, CTOs. We work most often with Series B–D businesses that have outgrown their original engineering leadership, or that need to add a layer at the top while the founders move into more strategic roles.
Tech-lead and Architect roles in larger organisations where the work is genuinely architectural rather than nominally so. We can usually tell within twenty minutes of the briefing call whether a role is one or the other.
Who to talk to
Alex Park leads Product Engineering. For senior engineering leadership briefs (Director and above), Alex is the right first conversation. For Staff and Principal IC roles, Marcus Leung leads day-to-day.
A product engineering brief we should be working on?
Tell us about the role. We'll respond within one working day with a view on what the brief should actually be, where it should sit in the market, and whether it's the kind of work we do well.