AI Engineering Team Lead

Dwelly; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Dwelly is seeking an exceptional engineering leader to serve as CTO/Senior Engineering Manager, owning technical direction, AI product delivery, and the organisation needed to scale. You will work closely with product and operations, starting close to the work, then hiring and developing a team to handle growing scope, while remaining hands-on where you can make the most impact.

You will lead the delivery of LLM and agentic workflows, build reliable AI systems, and guide architecture and

Qualifications

• Experience as a CTO, Senior Engineering Manager, or engineering leader with comparable scope and accountability.
• Built and scaled engineering teams with hiring, leadership development, and autonomous teams.
• Deep technical credibility from designing, shipping, and operating complex production systems.
• Strong product and business judgment aligning engineering with operations and economics.
• Backend and systems expertise, APIs, SQL, integrations; hands-on with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience shipping/operating LLM or agentic products with measurable business impact.
• High autonomy with ability to lead through ambiguity and drive cross-team alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction and delivery across areas.
• Lead AI product delivery including LLM/agentic workflows into production.
• Build and develop the engineering team; hire and onboard; grow future leaders.
• Guide architecture, data models, and legacy migration while balancing speed and reliability.
• Stay hands-on in critical coding reviews and system design to maximize impact.
• Foster cross-team collaboration and ensure measurable business outcomes.

Skills

CTO experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Engineering leadership

Backend and systems

APIs

SQL

Node.js

TypeScript

LLM/agentic products

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

About Dwelly

Dwelly is building the AI operating system for residential lettings. Its growing network of agencies provides its AI with real-world data, continuous feedback, and control over complete workflows, making exceptional service the standard for landlords and tenants. Today, Dwelly operates more than 15,000 properties and $470 million in GMV, making it one of the UK's ten largest lettings operators. The company has raised $263 million.

We're a fast-growing, product-focused company, backed by top-tier investors and led by a team with deep experience in real estate, technology, and operations.

Position Summary

We are hiring exceptional engineering leaders for Tenant Find and Growth. Each leader will own an area: its technical direction, product delivery, and the organisation needed to build it.

We expect these areas to grow significantly. You will start close to the work, then hire and develop the team, grow new leaders, and evolve its structure as the scope expands. We are looking for people who have operated as a CTO, Senior Engineering Manager, or in a role with comparable responsibility for building and scaling engineering teams.

You will work closely with product and operations, turn messy agency processes into reliable systems, and make decisions independently. You will remain hands-on in architecture, code reviews, debugging, and implementation where your involvement has the most impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Product outcomes: partner with product and operations on priorities, scope, and delivery. Own the path from problem definition to production and measurable business impact.
• AI products: lead the delivery of LLM and agentic workflows into production. Own quality evaluation, observability, human feedback, and safe fallbacks; measure reliability, cost, and reductions in manual work.
• AI-enabled engineering: build the team's ability to use coding agents effectively, with strong context, automated reviews, tests, and verification. Hire and develop engineers who can build and operate reliable AI systems.
• Technical direction: guide architecture, integrations, data models, and legacy migration. Balance speed with quality, reliability, and the ability to support growth.
• Hands-on engineering: stay actively involved in building the product. Write production code, design and implement complex systems, review critical changes, and lead by example. Balance hands-on contributions with growing the team and delegating ownership.
• People leadership: set clear expectations, give direct feedback, manage performance, and create an environment where people grow and raise problems early.
• Hiring and team building: define the capabilities your area needs, own hiring and onboarding, and build a strong team with high standards and shared ownership.
• Organisational growth: shape team boundaries, responsibilities, and leadership as the area scales. Develop engineers and future leaders, delegate real authority, and build teams that operate independently.
• Cross-team delivery: resolve dependencies directly with other leaders, agree shared interfaces and standards, and take responsibility for outcomes that cross team boundaries.

Qualifications and Preferred Background

• Experience as a CTO, Senior Engineering Manager, or an engineering leader with comparable scope and accountability. You have owned technical strategy, hiring, people development, and delivery through a meaningful period of growth.
• A demonstrated record of building and scaling strong engineering teams: hiring well, developing leaders, evolving organisational structure, and increasing team autonomy.
• Deep technical credibility built through designing, shipping, and operating complex production systems. You can challenge architectural decisions and still get into the code when needed.
• Strong product and business judgment: you connect engineering priorities to operational efficiency, customer experience, and business economics.
• Strong backend and systems expertise, including APIs, SQL, integrations, and legacy evolution; hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience shipping and operating LLM or agentic products in production, with evidence of business impact. You understand tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and failure modes, and can judge when to use AI, deterministic software, or human review. You actively use coding agents and can raise the team's capability.
• High autonomy and the ability to lead through ambiguity, make difficult trade-offs, and align people across teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Agencies and tenants feel the difference: work that used to take hours now happens automatically, and you can show exactly