AI Software Engineer

About The Role

Required Technical Skills

• Must have 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React and Node.js
• Deep understanding of Next.js (App Router, Server Actions, Middleware and Routing)
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL (or equivalent), including schema design and query optimisation
• Must have experience designing and building production AI-powered applications
• Strong understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how to integrate them into software products
• Experience working with leading AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or similar
• Experience with prompt engineering, structured outputs and tool/function calling
• Experience building AI agents, assistants and intelligent automation workflows
• Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Experience working with embeddings, vector databases and semantic search
• Experience building AI applications using modern orchestration frameworks and SDKs (e.g. Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex or similar)
• Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern AI tooling ecosystem
• Understanding of AI evaluation, latency optimisation, observability and cost optimisation
• Experience implementing AI safety, validation and guardrails in production systems

What You Will Do

• Design, build and ship AI-powered products, features and services
• Architect scalable software systems that effectively integrate AI capabilities
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend practical adoption across the business
• Build AI agents, assistants and intelligent automation workflows
• Develop backend services that support AI-powered experiences
• Implement semantic search, RAG pipelines and knowledge retrieval systems where appropriate
• Optimise AI applications for quality, performance, reliability and cost
• Integrate third-party APIs, AI providers and external services
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and stakeholders to solve business problems using AI
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews and engineering best practices
• Help define engineering standards and reusable patterns for AI development
• Stay up to date with the rapidly evolving AI landscape and share knowledge with the wider team

Nice To Have

• Experience building AI-first SaaS products
• Experience with multi-agent architectures
• Experience deploying or fine-tuning open-source models
• Experience with cloud AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Azure AI or Google Vertex AI
• Experience with multimodal AI (vision, speech or document understanding)
• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks and observability platforms
• Contributions to AI open-source projects or personal AI products

About You

• Passionate about AI and excited by the pace of innovation in the field
• You can work autonomously with minimal supervision, taking ownership of tasks from planning to completion
• You have a proactive, can-do approach to problem-solving and are willing to tackle unfamiliar challenges
• You are comfortable meeting deadlines and handling multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• You are a team player with a collaborative mindset, open to feedback, and willing to help colleagues
• You follow established coding standards and write clean, maintainable, well-documented code
• You participate actively in code reviews (giving and receiving feedback)
• You take responsibility for testing and quality assurance of your own work

Job Type: Full-time