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Unlikely AI

Senior Software Engineer – Lead

Unlikely AI

. Own the technical plan for Uncheck and lead delivery against customer commitments .

Posted 11/4/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in leading technical delivery for software projects, particularly in cloud environments, while mentoring engineers and ensuring high standards of production code. Proficient in managing AI-powered products and engaging with enterprise customers on technical matters.

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Technical LeadershipCloud Services ManagementAI Product DeliveryBack-End DevelopmentMentorship

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Hard Skills
Production Code WritingCode ReviewAutomated TestingCI/CDPythonInfrastructure as CodeObservabilityTechnical Decision MakingEnterprise Security ComplianceAI Agent Development
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationMentoringTechnical Conversation Leadership
Tools & Technologies
AWSCI/CD Pipelines
Industry Keywords
Regulated Industry ExperienceEnterprise CustomersFinancial ServicesProfessional ServicesHealthcare

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the technical plan for Uncheck and lead delivery against customer commitments
  • Build software hands-on by writing production code and reviewing others' work
  • Make technical decisions with the team, aligned with senior engineering and leadership
  • Lead how the team builds with AI agents, including reviewing, testing and safely shipping agent-written code
  • Measure the impact of AI agents on delivery
  • Ensure Uncheck runs reliably and securely in the cloud as it scales to new customers and regions
  • Lead technical conversations with customers' IT, security and architecture teams from evaluation through live use
  • Work with product and research colleagues to turn new capabilities and customer feedback into priorities
  • Mentor engineers across the team

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience leading delivery for a team of 4 to 8 engineers, shipping to enterprise customers on time and to a high standard
  • Experience mentoring engineers and helping them grow
  • Clear communication with customers and non-engineers
  • Comfortable leading technical conversations with enterprise teams
  • Strong back-end experience in any language, including agent-written code
  • Ability to make sound technical decisions
  • Experience owning production cloud services, ideally on AWS
  • Experience with code review, automated testing, CI/CD and on-call
  • Understanding of enterprise security and compliance expectations
  • Experience shipping AI-powered products or features to customers and making their output reliable at scale
  • Experience with Python is advantageous; the back end is written in Python
  • Experience in a regulated industry such as financial or professional services, legal, insurance or healthcare is advantageous
  • Experience taking a product into new regions is advantageous
  • DevOps, infrastructure and SRE experience, such as infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and observability, is advantageous

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Hybrid working policy, with three days a week as the expectation at the Central London office
  • Free team lunches every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
  • Optional social and extra-curricular activities throughout the year
  • Share options
  • Private health insurance with Bupa
  • Juno rewards, earning points on everyday purchases
  • Opportunity to work on trustworthy AI technology and shape product planning and delivery
  • Work alongside researchers developing new approaches to trustworthy AI
  • Help take a live product into new regions and markets