Software Engineering Lead / Applied AI Engineering

We are looking for a Software Engineering Lead / Applied AI Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering AI-powered services and tools for digital identity, fraud detection, and behavioural intelligence.

Requirements

• Lead and grow a team of full-stack ML engineers, QA engineers, and a UI developer
• Define technical direction for AI-enhanced services, internal tools, and platform components
• Drive architecture for model deployment pipelines, inference APIs, and data and feature systems
• Ensure high-quality delivery across code quality, testing, documentation, and observability
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and ML Research teams to prioritise and scope work
• Foster a culture of modern AI development practices — LLM tooling, MLOps, automation
• Set and enforce DevOps and SecOps standards across the team's services and pipelines
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and contribute to roadmap planning
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance development within the team

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work