Senior Software Engineer

The role

A startup-shaped role embedded with the internal team. You'll see how workflows actually run across the business, find the bottlenecks, and build tools that fit the way the company operates. Internal MVPs land on your desk and you take them from zero to enterprise-ready, with the codebase hygiene to make sure the second version doesn't fall over.

The skillset shape is forward-deployed - technical judgement, proximity to the business, and pace.

What you'll own

• Architecture and end-to-end delivery of internal systems, taking MVPs through to production-grade applications

• The cloud infrastructure footprint - environments, deployment pipelines, observability, cost

• Security and GDPR compliance across the stack

• AI workflows integrated into real business processes across investment, planning, delivery and operations

• Codebase hygiene - Git practice, code review, repo structure, documentation

What we're looking for

Engineering and AI:

• 5+ years building production-grade systems, ideally at a high-quality startup

• Strong full-stack capability across SQL, backend services and a modern frontend framework

• Real ownership of architectural decisions in production, including the trade-offs that come with distributed systems and scale

• Hands-on experience building with modern LLMs, agents, and embeddings

• Track record of integrating AI into real business processes, not just experimentation

• Working understanding of AI evaluation, safety constraints and failure modes

Infrastructure and craft:

• Comfort with data-intensive systems - ingestion, processing, storage (Kafka, Spark, Databricks or equivalent)

• Cloud fluency on AWS, Azure or GCP · infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, CDK or equivalent) · CI/CD · Docker (Kubernetes a bonus)

• Fluent in Git, API design (REST/GraphQL), and security as a default consideration

Mindset:

• Demonstrable history of taking products from zero to production to iteration

• Strong problem-solving - you can translate ambiguous business problems into clean technical solutions

• Comfortable in fast-moving environments with limited scaffolding

• Genuine interest in the frontier of what AI can do, and a view on what's hype versus what's useful

Why join

• The first proper engineering seat at a £3bn real estate platform with a serious growth pipeline

• No inherited tech debt, no committees, no organisational drag - direct partnership with senior management on shaping the technology agenda

• Real proximity to the business - investment, development, planning and operations are all in the building and part of your workflows

• Competitive compensation

• Central London office, in-person 2-3 days per week