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Lead Engineer

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Job Description


  • Own technical direction and delivery quality across one or two small teams

  • Work alongside product managers and senior business stakeholders

  • Build solutions as a hands-on individual contributor

  • Mentor engineers and develop their judgement on using AI tooling

  • Set standards for how technical problems are solved

  • Be accountable for shipped deliverables

  • Build and maintain integrations, MCP builds, API connections, and infrastructure supporting the GenAI platform

  • Build systems, tools, and solutions in an AI-native way

  • Represent engineering with senior stakeholders and translate between technical design and business needs

  • Make technical debt visible, clarify trade-offs, and keep delivery pace predictable

  • Contribute to engineering standards and improve the wider engineering function


Requirements



  • Production-grade software development experience, most likely in Python, C# .NET, or both (or similar)

  • Engineering depth and strong systems thinking

  • Knowledge of AI tooling fundamentals and how AI tooling works under the hood

  • Fluency in AI-native engineering, including building natively in platforms and using AI-enabled tools

  • Experience taking experiments through to production-grade operationalised solutions

  • End-to-end delivery ownership in a team-based model

  • Ability to surface problems early, present options, and keep stakeholders informed

  • Ability to work directly and credibly with senior non-technical stakeholders

  • Ability to translate technical constraints into business language without losing precision

  • Experience using GenAI tools such as Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT is desirable

  • Willingness to work in a matrix structure


Core Competencies


Demonstrates expertise in production-grade software development, particularly in Python and C# .NET, while effectively mentoring engineers and managing technical direction. Proficient in AI-native engineering and capable of translating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.


Highest-signal resume keywords



  • Production-Grade Software Development

  • Python

  • C# .NET

  • AI-Native Engineering

  • GenAI Tools


Hard Skills



  • Software Development

  • Systems Thinking

  • AI Tooling Fundamentals

  • End-to-End Delivery Ownership

  • Technical Problem Solving


Soft Skills



  • Mentoring

  • Stakeholder Communication

  • Problem-Solving

  • Collaboration


Industry Keywords



  • Technical Direction

  • Integration

  • Delivery Quality

  • Matrix Structure


Tools & Technologies



  • GenAI Tools

  • API Connections

  • MCP Builds

  • AI-Enabled Tools


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