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Lead Software Engineer

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Hybrid (London)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Lead AI/ML Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, delivering large-scale AI-powered platforms in high-risk environments, and guiding a distributed engineering team while ensuring production-ready, scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Setting the technical direction for complex software projects to ensure architectural decisions support long-term product and client goals.
  • Driving the development of shared software libraries and microservices that accelerate delivery across multiple client engagements.
  • Overseeing the delivery of large-scale AI-powered platforms while defining project roadmaps in high-risk environments.
  • Facilitating alignment between ML, Data Science, and DevOps crafts to ensure agentic software is built on a reliable foundation.
  • Managing and coaching a distributed team of engineers, setting development goals that align with organisational growth.
  • Establishing enterprise-wide standards for code delivery, testing, and system documentation across the software engineering craft.
  • Leading hiring processes for the software engineering craft to continue building a world-class technical team.

Qualifications

  • You apply deep expertise across the application lifecycle to set high standards for system integration and end-user software quality.
  • You design large-scale, complex software ecosystems with the authority to justify critical architectural trade-offs in high-stakes environments.
  • You define the gold standard for production readiness, establishing application deployment protocols across diverse client engagements.
  • You translate high-level commercial strategy into technical roadmaps, ensuring AI work-streams are accurately estimated and seamlessly integrated.
  • You architecturally direct the development of products leveraging autonomous AI agents to ensure they are robust and effectively integrated.
  • You are a confident communicator, capable of conveying complex technical roadmaps and architectural risks to commercial partners and executive leadership.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipSystem architectureProduction readinessCross-functional collaborationPeople management
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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