Chief Engineer: AI-First Platform Leader (Remote UK)

Addition Solutions; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work arrangement

Pension contributions (up to 5%)

Private medical insurance

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice

25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays,

30 days max with length of service

Job summary

Addition Solutions is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for a highly available, multi-tenant platform. The role combines strategic technical leadership with hands-on delivery, shaping AI-first engineering practices while ensuring security, reliability and regulatory compliance.

You will manage architecture, standards, and roadmaps, drive platform reliability, and collaborate with product and leadership to prioritize initiatives and manage technical debt.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience building and operating production systems.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong backend/frontend and API design experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering team development and performance.
• Own technical architecture, standards and roadmap.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability and zero-downtime deployments.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Team leadership

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Security/compliance

AI in software development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Addition Solutions is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for a highly available, multi-tenant platform. The role combines strategic technical leadership with hands-on delivery, shaping AI-first engineering practices while ensuring security, reliability and regulatory compliance.

You will manage architecture, standards, and roadmaps, drive platform reliability, and collaborate with product and leadership to prioritize initiatives and manage technical debt.