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Staff Software Engineer
Build AI products that businesses rely on every day.
AI is moving fast, but building software that's reliable, scalable and production-ready is where the real challenge lies. If you enjoy solving complex engineering problems and want to help shape the next generation of AI-powered products, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact.
You'll join a well-funded startup where engineers have real ownership, ideas are acted on quickly and you'll help build products from the ground up.
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
- Build and launch AI-powered products used by customers across multiple industries
- Design scalable backend services and distributed systems
- Work closely with ML engineers to productionise AI capabilities
- Improve platform reliability, tooling and developer experience
- Influence technical direction and engineering standards
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What you'll bring
- Strong commercial experience with Python
- A track record of shipping production software
- Experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes
- A passion for clean, maintainable engineering
- Enjoy solving problems across product, platform and infrastructure
Whether you're already operating at Staff level or you're a Senior Engineer ready to take that next step, you'll find plenty of autonomy, technical challenge and room to grow.
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