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Senior Full Stack Developer - AI Strategy and Engineering Lead - Hybrid


Senior Full Stack Developer - AI Strategy & Engineering Lead - Warwickshire (Hybrid) - £100,000 - £120,000 + EQUITY

We're an AI-native startup transforming how people interact with intelligent systems. If you're a senior full stack engineer with a strategic mindset, hands-on coding skills, and deep AI expertise, this is your chance to help shape a world-class AI platform from the ground up.

What You'll Be Doing
Lead the architecture and evolution of our AI-first development strategy, balancing speed, performance, and experimentation.
Drive cross-functional collaboration between engineers, data scientists, and product managers in an agile environment.
Build and scale features across text, speech, and video using FastAPI, MongoDB, React, and Azure-native infrastructure.
Set the engineering standard—write clean, maintainable code, automate processes, and promote best practices using Cursor, GitHub, and Slack.
Work hands-on with LLMs, RAG pipelines, multi-modal AI systems, and emerging MCP (Model Context Protocol) techniques.
Own the product lifecycle from rapid prototyping to production deployment using Kanban and iterative development frameworks.

What We're Looking For
6+ years of full stack development experience in high-performance environments.
Expertise in FastAPI, MongoDB, React, and Azure DevOps.
Deep practical knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, multi-modal AI, and prompt engineering.
A strategic thinker with hands-on experience building production AI systems.
Proven leadership experience in engineering or AI/ML teams, ideally within startup or scale-up environments.
A builder's mindset—curious, hands-on, and driven to create high-impact AI products at speed.

What You'll Get
£100,000 - £120,000 salary + meaningful equity
Hybrid working - 1-2 days a week at our Warwickshire office
High-spec equipment and AI tooling provided
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Pension scheme
BUPA private healthcare

***IMPORTANT***
If you're passionate about Generative AI and automation, you'll thrive here. We actively use tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Jasper, and more to ship fast, scale smart, and build next-generation AI systems. This is a hands-on leadership role for people who want to build, innovate, and lead at the cutting edge of AI engineering.