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Staff Software Engineer
Build AI products that businesses depend on every day.
The AI landscape is evolving quickly, but turning cutting-edge models into reliable, scalable products is where the real engineering challenge begins. If you enjoy designing systems that perform at scale and want the freedom to shape products from the ground up, this is a role where you'll have genuine influence.
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
- Remote-first across the UK
- Build products from concept through to production
- Work alongside experienced software, AI, and platform engineers
- Flexible working, learning budget, and regular company offsites
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What you'll be doing
- Building AI-powered products used by customers across a range of industries
- Designing scalable backend services and distributed systems
- Working closely with ML engineers to bring AI capabilities into production
- Improving platform reliability, tooling, and the developer experience
- Influencing technical direction, architecture, and engineering standards
What you'll bring
- Strong commercial experience building backend systems with Python
- A track record of delivering high-quality production software
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes
- A passion for clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- An engineering mindset that enjoys solving problems across product, platform, and infrastructure
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