Staff AI Software Engineer – AI Engineering Platform

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: London
Job Description:

Responsibilities

  • Write, test, and debug code for complex features, distributed systems, or legacy migrations. Lead on designing and optimising deployment pipelines.
  • Provide technical guidance and support on complex, high‑impact projects that align with team objectives, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions while tackling the hardest technical challenges for the team.
  • Lead the development of architectural and design solutions for large‑scale projects, ensuring that software solutions align with business requirements, long‑term technology strategy, and technology standards.
  • Review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions from team members, ensuring alignment to technical standards, maintainability and high‑quality software.
  • Communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of collaborators, including senior management and external partners, while leading or starting communities of practice.
  • Actively mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth, while participating in hiring processes and training engineers up to Staff standard.
  • Demonstrate a production first attitude, continuously considering observability and maintaining Service Level Objectives, while delivering change at pace.
  • Embrace emerging technologies and trends, share insights with the organisation, and develop and maintain the team technology roadmap, leading on the strategic approach to monitoring and maintaining production systems.
  • Write advanced system and operations documentation and perform advanced internal tech talks to share knowledge and best practices.
  • Assist with the recruitment and onboarding of new engineers into the organisation.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in most tech stack areas, from front-end through to back-end.
  • Expert understanding of software development practices.
  • Solid expertise with distributed version control systems like Git.
  • Proficiency with Test‑Driven Development, Behaviour‑Driven Development, and non‑functional testing.
  • Strong experience of DevOps: you build it, you run it.
  • Knowledge of modern front-end techniques – edge computing, micro‑frontends, server components.
  • Experience with developer productivity frameworks such as DORA and SPACE.
  • Advocate of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
  • Experience with cloud engineering and highly scalable applications.
  • Proficiency in documenting software design technical decisions and recommendations.
  • Great leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to develop engineering colleagues.

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Posted: July 10th, 2026