London – full-time
About Loci
Loci is a community platform that empowers residents, local councils and businesses to connect, collaborate and co-create better neighbourhoods. Our mobile and web apps give councils the tools to engage citizens, help residents share hyper-local news and services, and enable small businesses to reach their neighbours—all in one, easy-to-use interface.
Role summary
As a Product Engineer you’ll own key features end-to-end, from ideation with Product & UX, through design, implementation and deployment, to measurement and iteration. You’ll be a hands-on coder and have a deep understanding of the needs of our users – helping us scale Loci across hundreds of UK councils and millions of users.
What you’ll do
- Build and ship user-facing features in our React (web) and React Native (mobile) codebases
- Design & evolve our backend services (.NET, AWS)
- Collaborate daily with cross-functional teams to ideate, experiment, develop and own initiatives
- Ensure quality through test-driven development, pair programming, production testing and performance monitoring
- Drive technical decisions on architecture, scalability, security and design
- Measure impact by instrumenting analytics, A/B tests and feeding learnings back into future initiatives
- Mentor more junior engineers and help grow our engineering culture
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years’ professional software engineering, ideally in B2C or B2B2C environments
- Experience with native app development, as well as distributed systems at scale
- Experience building and scaling real-time community/group messaging systems, e.g. using WebSockets or MQTT, and backing these with technologies like Redis Pub/Sub, Apache Kafka, or AWS SNS/SQS for high-throughput, low-latency chat
- Strong front-end skills: React, React Native, Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, responsive design
- Solid back-end experience: .NET/C#, REST/GraphQL APIs, serverless patterns on AWS
- A product mindset: you care about solving problems, not specific implementations. You understand the value of experimentation, validation and shipping quickly & safely
- Excellent communication: you’ll work cross-functionally every day
Nice to have
- Experience with GIS or location-based services (Mapbox, Google Maps SDK)
- Previous work in civic-tech, local government or community-facing apps
- A wide range of experience in either different industries or different sized companies
Benefits & perks
- Competitive salary
- Flexible hours & hybrid office setup in London
- A brand new laptop (Mac or Windows), pension and 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Leadership that values candor and empathy in a high-autonomy environment
- Regular team socials, hack days and offsites
How to apply
Send your CV, a short note about why you’re excited by community tech, and links to any relevant Git repos, apps or portfolios to jamie.bose@lociapp.co.uk. We’ll get back to you within a week.
