Agentic AI Frontline Engineer: Full Stack & POC Architect

Hedgehog Lab; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Five Impact Days a year

Learning budget and training

Enhanced family leave

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab in the UK digital product consultancy invites you to be the first engineer on a new client engagement, shaping what’s possible before a team forms. You’ll define architecture, choose technologies, and build a proof that a delivery team can scale from.

You’ll work with our agentic engineering approach, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and you don’t need to arrive as an expert. You’ll travel to client sites around Leeds and Manchester as needed, with a 50 miles radius.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering full-stack apps with TypeScript or Python.
• Hands-on experience using AI agents in real workflows (GitHub repo counts).
• Proven ability to ship working solutions from messy, poorly defined problems.
• Ability to explain thinking to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Turn client goals into architecture and ADRs.
• Build proofs of concept that validate the design.
• Set up tooling, workflows and guardrails for AI coding agents.
• Shape testing and code review.
• Pair with engineers and leave patterns client teams can own.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

AI agents

Client communication

Tools

NestJS

FastAPI

Job description

Hedgehog Lab in the UK digital product consultancy invites you to be the first engineer on a new client engagement, shaping what’s possible before a team forms. You’ll define architecture, choose technologies, and build a proof that a delivery team can scale from.

You’ll work with our agentic engineering approach, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and you don’t need to arrive as an expert. You’ll travel to client sites around Leeds and Manchester as needed, with a 50 miles radius.