Lead Developer AI

Lead Developer (Full Stack, AI) UK, Remote-first £55k-£65k

Overview

Rare opportunity to join a high growth team building cutting edge AI products in a fast moving, creative environment. You’ll be part of a small, high impact team with the autonomy and pace of a scale up, while benefiting from the backing, stability, and support of a larger, well established organisation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead 2 developers while staying close to the code
• Design, build, and scale full stack applications
• Own system architecture, deployment, and engineering standards
• Integrate AI features into products using modern APIs and data driven approaches
• Improve CI/CD, environments, and overall delivery capability

Tech environment – Not set in stone

• Front end: React, Next.js, TypeScript (or similar)
• Back end: Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django) (or similar)
• APIs: REST, GraphQL (or similar)
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB (or similar)

AI / Data

• Experience integrating AI/ML features via APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic or similar)
• Exposure to data pipelines, inference workflows, or retrieval based systems (RAG, vector DBs or similar)

Cloud & DevOps

• AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Docker, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar)
• Experience deploying and maintaining production systems – essential

Qualifications

• Strong full stack engineer with leadership experience
• Proven track record delivering and deploying real products
• Comfortable owning deployment and improving engineering standards
• Clear communicator, able to work across technical and non-technical teams

This role isn’t for you if:

• Your AI experience is limited to demos, courses, or side projects without production use
• You’ve never deployed or maintained a live system end-to-end
• You prefer purely front end or back end work without full stack ownership
• You’re not comfortable taking responsibility for delivery, not just contributing code
• Communication with non-technical stakeholders isn’t something you enjoy

Small team, real ownership, exciting vision, genuine impact.

If you’ve shipped products, can lead from the front, and want to build something meaningful in the AI space, apply now.

Contact: justin.toomey@datatech.org.uk

No sponsorship available

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