Lead Developer AI

Lead Developer (Full Stack, AI) UK, Remote-first | £55k-£65k

Remote-first | £55k-£65k

Rare opportunity to join a high growth team building cutting edge AI products in a fast moving, creative environment.

You'll be part of a small, high impact team with the autonomy and pace of a scale up, where decisions are made quickly and your work has real visibility. At the same time, the business benefits from the backing, stability, and support of a larger, well established organisation, giving you the best of both worlds.

This is a hands on' Lead role, managing a small team while owning delivery across full stack development, architecture, and deployment. You'll play a key role in shaping how AI is embedded into real, production grade products, not just experimentation.

What you'll be doing:

Leading 2 developers while staying close to the code Designing, building, and scaling full stack applications Owning system architecture, deployment, and engineering standards Integrating AI features into products using modern APIs and data-driven approaches Improving CI/CD, environments, and overall delivery capability

Tech environment - Not set in Stone

Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript (or similar) Backend: Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django) (or similar) APIs: REST, GraphQL (or similar) Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB (or similar)

AI / Data: Experience integrating AI/ML features via APIs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic or similar) Exposure to data pipelines, inference workflows, or retrieval-based systems (RAG, vector DBs or similar)

Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, or GCP Docker, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar) Experience deploying and maintaining production systems is essential

Strong full stack engineer with leadership experience Proven track record delivering and deploying real products Comfortable owning deployment and improving engineering standards Clear communicator, able to work across technical and non-technical teams

This role isn't for you if:

Your AI experience is limited to demos, courses, or side projects without production use You've never deployed or maintained a live system end-to-end You prefer purely frontend or backend work without full stack ownership You're not comfortable taking responsibility for delivery, not just contributing code Communication with non-technical stakeholders isn't something you enjoy

Small team, real ownership, exciting vision genuine impact.