AI‑Native Software Engineer
Location: Hybrid (Wilmslow HQ) or Remote
Salary: Competitive
Role Overview
This role is a hands‑on engineering position at the centre of a platform transformation. You will be a core contributor to a squad that is changing how software is built, owned, and delivered, with direct influence over quality and direction. The focus is on moving from a traditional release cycle to CI/CD, shifting shared services into team‑owned boundaries, and embedding AI into our development process.
Responsibilities
* Write production‑quality code daily across the full stack: backend, frontend, and supporting infrastructure.
* Take ownership of features and workstreams from design to deployment, delivering shippable increments.
* Contribute to technical design and architecture discussions with well‑reasoned input.
* Run technical spikes and proofs of concept to explore approaches and reduce uncertainty.
* Manage your own technical debt responsibly.
* Play an active part in decomposing shared services into team‑owned components.
* Support the move to CI/CD by contributing to pipelines, automated tests, and trunk‑based development.
* Build with observability in mind: instrumentation, logging, monitoring.
* Take operational responsibility for the systems you build.
* Write clean, testable, secure code and practice test‑driven development.
* Participate actively in code review, giving and receiving feedback.
* Apply secure coding practices (dependency management, threat awareness, security testing).
* Use AI natively in your engineering work – think through problems, generate and review code, and build and test solutions.
* Contribute to AI‑powered workflows that improve delivery capability.
* Engage with the team’s AI agents and tooling, helping to refine and improve them.
* Bring a critical eye to AI‑generated output, verifying quality and maintaining standards.
* Work closely with Tech Lead and teammates through pairing, mob programming, and shared problem‑solving.
* Support less experienced engineers via code review, pairing, and daily conversation.
* Participate in planning, refinement, stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
* Take an active interest in your own development, staying current with technologies and practices.
Required Experience and Skills
Technical
* Proven experience delivering complex features on production systems.
* Full‑stack capability across backend and frontend, with databases and cloud infrastructure.
* Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
* Working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
* Sound security fundamentals: secure coding, dependency management, awareness of common vulnerabilities.
* Experience refactoring and improving existing codebases.
AI‑Native Engineering Practice
* Demonstrable experience using AI as a genuine part of your engineering workflow.
* Comfortable critically evaluating, refining, and taking responsibility for AI‑generated output.
Behavioural
* High standards – pride in quality and shipping reliable work.
* Collaborative – share openly, improve teammates.
* Self‑directed – take ownership and deliver without constant oversight.
* Adaptable to change – remain positive when priorities shift.
* Curious and committed to learning – continuously develop skills and share new ideas.
Nice to Have
* Experience building or contributing to AI agents or automated workflows in production.
* Experience with event‑driven architectures, message queues, or reactive systems.
* Contributions to open source or active participation in technical communities.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays.
* Birthday day off.
* Post‑wedding holiday bonus.
* Family support vouchers.
* Private healthcare (cash plan).
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