Open
LOCATION
Canary Wharf, Hybrid
basis
Full-time, permanent
salary
DOE
About Onetrace
Great products start with great people.
Our focus on user experience has helped us become the leading software for fire protection subcontractors across the UK.
We build tools that actually work on the ground — fast, intuitive, and simple to use.
Onetrace is growing quickly, recognised as one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK and in London’s construction sector. We’re bootstrapped, profitable, and on a mission to become a global ConTech leader.
Join a smart, ambitious team where your ideas matter and your work shapes what’s next. Learn more about life at onetrace here.
What you’ll do
Own end-to-end delivery of features that solve real customer problems, from understanding user pain points through to shipped functionality across UI, application logic and database layers
Build intuitive, performant interfaces that customers actually want to use—balancing user needs, accessibility, and technical constraints while ensuring features work reliably across devices and contexts
Use customer feedback, analytics, and direct user insights to inform technical decisions, prioritise improvements, and validate that shipped features deliver measurable value
Design and implement complex data flows, API integrations, and background processing systems that handle high-volume operations reliably while maintaining system performance and data integrity
Partner with product, design, and customers to shape solutions early, translating business requirements into technical architecture while surfacing risks and opportunities that impact customer outcomes
Mentor and coach other engineers, raising the bar for technical excellence through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural guidance
Beyond the tech
We are building a team of Product Engineers because we believe the most impactful work comes from those who are closest to the problems we're solving. For us, engineering is not just about executing a specification; it's about taking ownership of the user experience and the business outcome. Our engineers are partners in discovery and strategy, empowered to question assumptions, contribute to the 'why,' and use their technical creativity to build not just what is asked for, but what our users truly need.
Our engineering culture
We’re not your typical “move fast and break things” company. We believe in building thoughtfully and shipping quality software that genuinely helps our customers solve real problems.
Working here means being a product engineer, not just a backend or frontend specialist. We care about engineers who understand the bigger picture: the operatives on site, the project teams behind them, and the real-world impact of the tools we ship. You’ll bring curiosity to the “why” behind the work, not just the “how,” and you’ll see your code in action helping people get their jobs done with less friction.
What this means day-to-day:
We encourage you to talk to users and understand their real challenges
Work as equals with product managers and designers to find the best solutions
Care about your work from conception through production and beyond
Balance shipping velocity with code quality and exceptional user experience
Speak up with ideas, concerns, and feedback to help the team improve
Embrace mistakes as learning opportunities and seek better approaches
We value transparency, honest communication, and engineers who genuinely care about the impact of their work. Subcontractors use Onetrace to prove their work has been carried out compliantly, with full traceability from start to finish. That not only makes their day-to-day smoother and more reliable, it also raises the standard across projects — ultimately leading to safer buildings for everyone to live and work in. And we think that’s something worth getting excited about.
Want to dig deeper?
If you’re curious about what it’s really like to build at Onetrace, we’ve written more about our approach, straight from the people you’ll be working with:
Our Product Engineering Culture – by Luca Carangella, Director of Product Engineering, on how we think about engineering and collaboration.
Building Products for Subcontractors – by our Co-Founders, Lewis and Greg, outlining the mindset and manifesto that guide how we build.
What you’ll bring
Essential
JavaScript / TypeScript – core programming languages
Node.js – primary backend framework
MongoDB or other NoSQL database
SQL databases and query optimisation
RESTful API design and implementation
Git – version control and collaborative workflows
Testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end)
Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools
Knowledge of scalable system architecture and design patterns
Familiarity with modern AI tools and a habit of staying up to date with how they can improve engineering workflows
Highly desirable
AdonisJS, NestJS or similar MVC frameworks
AWS infrastructure and services
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
Distributed systems experience
Message queues and background job processing
Caching strategies and performance optimisation
CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Nice to have
Security best-practices implementation
Experience in a growth-stage startup or B2B SaaS
Knowledge of the construction industry
Hybrid guidelines
We operate a hybrid working model, with a minimum expectation of 3 days per week in the office. This is a core part of how the role works and isn’t something we’re flexible on.




