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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Understanding Recruitment
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), System Availability, Kubernetes
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.understandingrecruitment.com/job/staff-software-engineer-9149/

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience with Python
 * A track record of shipping production software
 * Experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes
 * A passion for clean, maintainable engineering
 * Enjoy solving problems across product, platform and infrastructure

Whether you're already operating at Staff level or you're a Senior Engineer ready to take that next step, you'll find plenty of autonomy, technical challenge and room to grow.

## Description

Staff Software Engineer

Build AI products that businesses rely on every day.

AI is moving fast, but building software that's reliable, scalable and production-ready is where the real challenge lies. If you enjoy solving complex engineering problems and want to help shape the next generation of AI-powered products, this is an opportunity to make a genuine impact.

You'll join a well-funded startup where engineers have real ownership, ideas are acted on quickly and you'll help build products from the ground up.

What's in it for you?

 * Competitive salary plus meaningful equity
 * Remote-first across the UK
 * Build products from concept through to production
 * Work alongside experienced software, AI and platform engineers
 * Flexible working, learning budget and regular company offsites

What you'll be doing

 * Build and launch AI-powered products used by customers across multiple industries
 * Design scalable backend services and distributed systems
 * Work closely with ML engineers to productionise AI capabilities
 * Improve platform reliability, tooling and developer experience
 * Influence technical direction and engineering standards

What you'll bring

 * Strong commercial experience with Python
 * A track record of shipping production software
 * Experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes
 * A passion for clean, maintainable engineering
 * Enjoy solving problems across product, platform and infrastructure

Whether you're already operating at Staff level or you're a Senior Engineer ready to take that next step, you'll find plenty of autonomy, technical challenge and room to grow.

Apply today to find out more.


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