Software Engineering Lead / Applied AI Engineering

Would you enjoy working on our cutting-edge products? Are you ready for a lead Engineer role? We are seeking 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

• 7+ years in backend, full-stack, ML engineering, or distributed systems.
• 2+ years in technical leadership, team leadership, or senior mentoring roles.
• Hands-on experience deploying ML-powered services into production.
• Strong Python and Java — both are in active use across the team's production services.
• Experience with Snowflake/Spark/Databricks or others, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps tooling.
• Solid understanding of SecOps practices and security-conscious system design.
• Demonstrable track record of taking initiative and driving work independently.
• Working knowledge of DevOps and SecOps practices deployment patterns, and security-aware engineering.
• Broad full-stack curiosity: comfortable picking up work outside your primary discipline when the problem demands it.

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