Engineering at Beams: Building the Future of Home Renovation
At Beams, our mission is to make home renovation simpler and greener. But we’re not just building another SaaS platform. We’re solving high-impact, real-world challenges with a combination of brilliant people and great technology. After our successful Series A we’re set to transform a highly complex and fragmented industry worth more than €500bn a year in Europe.
To help make renovations simple for customers and builders, our product team is working on:
Empowering our incredible team with great tools: creating fast, intuitive software that enables our team mates to provide exceptional customer, builder and project support.
Forecasting accurate costs and timescales: leveraging AI and automation to improve predictability for customers and builders alike.
Optimising project workflows at scale: every project is unique, requiring dynamic scheduling, supply chain coordination, and real-time adjustments.
Building robust product information management: ensuring materials, pricing, and supplier availability are accurate and up to date to minimise supply chain disruptions and maximise sustainability.
Preventing incidents and delays with AI: helping catch design, procurement and build issues before they become costly mistakes and lengthy delays.
Providing secure payments to prevent fraud: financial transactions are core to every renovation so they must be transparent and secure, giving homeowners confidence and ensuring builders are paid fairly.
Renovations can be wasteful and inefficient, but we help make them more sustainable by:
Improving material planning: reducing over-ordering and minimising construction waste.
Optimising supply chains and scheduling: cutting unnecessary transport emissions by ensuring the right materials arrive at the right time.
Promoting energy-efficient materials and practices: using home energy assessments and data insights to help customers and builders choose greener options.
It’s really special to be working on a mission that has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. No home renovation is completely stress free, but we help the homeowner focus more on the good part - watching their dreams become a reality.
To give you a flavour of how we do it, we work in a largely Typescript ecosystem, in React/Next.js and Node/NestJS. We operate in Vercel, extensively in AWS, and build using Github Actions.
If that sounds like the kind of work you want to do; if you are action and impact driven, like to make things better but keep things simple, then let’s talk. We’re hiring.