Software Engineer AI

London Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

Our client is an ecommerce leader in the consumer space, and is investing heavily in building AI-powered products, intelligent automation solutions and next-generation customer experiences that will create meaningful commercial impact across the business.

This is a role for someone who enjoys building software, solving complex technical problems and working with emerging technologies. You’ll work at the intersection of software engineering, AI and product development, creating production-grade applications that leverage LLMs, agentic workflows and modern AI frameworks to solve real business challenges.

Opportunity

• Join at the beginning of a major AI investment programme
• Build AI-powered products that will be deployed across a large ecommerce organisation
• Be one of the first dedicated engineers focused on developing AI applications and intelligent systems
• Significant ownership and technical influence from day one
• Greenfield environment with freedom to shape architecture, tooling and engineering standards
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to identify where AI can create genuine business value
• Design and deliver solutions that move beyond proof-of-concepts into production
• Opportunity to help shape the future direction of AI within a fast-growing business
• Exposure to a wide variety of AI, engineering and product challenges
• Design, build and deploy production-grade AI applications and services
• Develop intelligent workflows using LLMs, agentic architectures and orchestration frameworks
• Build RAG systems, knowledge retrieval platforms and AI-powered tooling
• Integrate AI applications with internal systems, business platforms and external services
• Develop scalable backend services and APIs that support AI-driven products
• Work closely with product, engineering and commercial teams to identify high-impact use cases
• Contribute to architecture decisions, platform design and engineering best practices
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine where they can create competitive advantage
• Help establish standards around security, testing, observability and deployment of AI systems
• Strong software engineering foundations
• Experience building and deploying software products into production environments
• Excellent Python engineering skills and modern backend development experience
• Experience building APIs, integrations and scalable services
• Hands‑on experience working with LLMs and modern AI frameworks
• Experience building AI applications rather than purely researching models
• Exposure to RAG architectures, vector databases and agentic workflows
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Anthropic or similar technologies
• MCP or similar protocols for connecting AI systems with tools, data sources and business applications
• Ability to balance engineering quality with commercial outcomes
• Up to £130,000 + Bonus + Benefits
• London Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

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