Software Engineer AI

Our client is an ecommerce leader in the consumer space, and is investing heavily in building AI-powered products, intelligent automation solutions and next-generation customer experiences that will create meaningful commercial impact across the business.

This is a role for someone who enjoys building software, solving complex technical problems and working with emerging technologies. You’ll work at the intersection of software engineering, AI and product development, creating production-grade applications that leverage LLMs, agentic workflows and modern AI frameworks to solve real business challenges.

Role Overview

• Join at the beginning of a major AI investment programme
• Build AI-powered products that will be deployed across a large ecommerce organisation
• Be one of the first dedicated engineers focused on developing AI applications and intelligent systems
• Significant ownership and technical influence from day one
• Greenfield environment with freedom to shape architecture, tooling and engineering standards
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to identify where AI can create genuine business value
• Design and deliver solutions that move beyond proof-of-concepts into production
• Opportunity to help shape the future direction of AI within a fast-growing business
• Exposure to a wide variety of AI, engineering and product challenges

Responsibilties

• Design, build and deploy production-grade AI applications and services
• Develop intelligent workflows using LLMs, agentic architectures and orchestration frameworks
• Build RAG systems, knowledge retrieval platforms and AI-powered tooling
• Integrate AI applications with internal systems, business platforms and external services
• Develop scalable backend services and APIs that support AI-driven products
• Work closely with product, engineering and commercial teams to identify high-impact use cases
• Contribute to architecture decisions, platform design and engineering best practices
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine where they can create competitive advantage
• Help establish standards around security, testing, observability and deployment of AI systems

Your Experience

• Strong software engineering foundations
• Experience building and deploying AI products into production environments
• Python and modern backend engineering experience
• Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures and agentic AI systems
• MCP or similar protocols for connecting AI systems with tools and external services
• Strong product thinking and commercial awareness
• Experience operating within high-growth, scale-up or rapidly evolving environments
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business outcomes

Compensation

• Up to £130,000 + Bonus + Benefits
• London Hybrid (2 days per week in office)

If you’re excited by the opportunity to build AI products from the ground up, influence strategy from day one and see your work deployed across an ecommerce organisation, please apply today.