Position: Tech Lead / Frontend senior engineer
The Company
As featured on BBC’s Dragons’ Den, multi-award winning EdTech Gaming studio, Brainspark Games is building Free, culturally inclusive, AI-powered, Augmented Reality educational mobile games aligned with the UK national curriculum, for 7-13yos and GCSEs students. We condense 12 weeks term time learning into a few hours of fun, fast game play!
Having secured 3 Dragons and won numerous accolades; 8 x Innovate UK grant winners, Film London Lodestar 2025, HolonIQ ‘Top European Edtech startup’, Top European Tech Startup To ‘AWE XR Watch Auggie Award 2023,’ ASU+GSV Elite 200 (world’s top 200 most innovative EdTech companies), Top 30 Global Winner of GSV & Unity ‘EdTech Creator Challenge’ and selected for Creative Industries Councils ‘100 Ones to Watch 2021’, featured in The Independent, Games Biz, UK TechNews as “One of London’s Most Diverse Tech Startups”, amongst others, Brainspark Games is one of the UK’s most innovate, EdTech Gaming studios.
The Opportunity
We’re hiring a Tech Lead / Senior frontend engineer to help build the world’s first AI-native educational gaming platform. You’ll lead product and technical direction at the intersection of AI, gaming, and education, working hands-on with top AI experts in the UK and elite game developers to create unique, unrivalled experiences. This is a build-from-scratch, high-ownership role - not incremental product work.
The Candidate
AIOps from day one: Design modern AI-driven systems, experimentation, observability, model lifecycle, and operational intelligence.
First-of-kind; You’ll be the first to pioneer AI and AIOps in gaming, shaping how AI is used in gameplay building best of breed.
Learn from AI experts; Work closely with leading AI researchers and engineers, gaining deep, real-world AI exposure at production scale.
Impact; Combine cutting-edge AI with games that children genuinely love, improving learning outcomes and democratising access to high quality education, for all.
Responsibilities
* We are looking for a Tech Lead to help shape the future of learning through AI-powered gaming.
* You will sit at the intersection of product vision, engineering execution, and AI innovation, project management, owning the roadmap and technical direction of our platform as we scale from award-winning games to a fully-fledged AI-driven platform.
* This is not a maintenance role. You’ll be building first-of-its-kind systems, defining how AI can enhance learning, creativity, and gameplay at scale.
* Own and evolve the product and technical roadmap, balancing gameplay innovation, educational outcomes, and platform scalability
* Work closely with AI researchers, ML engineers, game designers, and educators
* Implement and mature AIOps practices to improve reliability, experimentation speed, and data-driven decision making
Required skills
* Strong experience with Next.js or a comparable modern web / frontend stack
* Solid understanding of technical architecture, system design, and design patterns
* Comfortable making high-level technical decisions and translating product vision into scalable solutions
* Eager to work hands-on with AI systems, learning directly alongside top AI experts in the UK
* Curious, adaptable, and excited to apply AI to real-world, production-grade gaming systems
* Comfortable with BDD and solid understanding of end-to-end testing methodology
* AI and gaming expertise is optional — what matters is that you are a fast learner, forward-thinking, and genuinely excited by AI
* Eager to work hands-on with AI systems, learning directly alongside world class AI experts
* Curious, adaptable, and motivated to apply new technologies to real-world, production gaming systems
NO RECRUITMENT AGENTS PLEASE!
Send CVs to hr@brainsparkgames.com