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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Platform Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Backend, Api Design
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815183787-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong ability across scalable and performant systems
 * You have a product mindset
 * Statically typed language expertise
 * Experience with API design
 * Low ego and love of engineering

## Description

Software Engineer - Up to £160,000 - London

Title: Software Engineer

Company: AI Startup

Location: London

Pay: Up to £160,000

Additional: Very strong stock options

A recently funded AI start up, spun out from an elite academic institution are looking to grow their software engineering team, specifically with a mission-critical hire to help scale their systems holistically while leading new development.

They are combining incredibly niche domain expertise with AI to conduct research and development in the physical world.

Role

 * This is a heavily backend-biased position but given the size of the team you will be working across the stack when needed
 * Build scalable, performant systems
 * Design and deliver end-to-end features with direct impact on customer value
 * Work with product and ML teams to help translate abstract and complex concepts into concrete software
 * Own key architectural decisions
 * Continually make incremental improvements to their systems
 * Help the team scale by mentoring junior team members
 * Play a significant role in the future direction of the software function

About you

 * Strong ability across scalable and performant systems
 * You have a product mindset
 * Statically typed language expertise
 * Experience with API design
 * Low ego and love of engineering

Full details are available. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with to learn more.


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