Engineering Lead — Real-Time AI Platform

Referment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment in London seeks a Head of Engineering to own the technical direction across AI, backend and frontend. You’ll translate product goals into scalable architecture, mentor a small team, and align delivery with product strategy from day one.

You’ll work closely with product and AI leadership, shaping code, systems and processes as the company grows, balancing speed with sustainable design in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Extensive track record shipping end-to-end products.
• Comfort with ambiguity and complex technical problems.
• Ability to scale architectures from solo to team.
• Experience with real-time systems or APIs is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering delivery across AI, backend and frontend.
• Hands-on architecting while planning for growth.
• Tackle greenfield problems with strong technical depth.
• Shape engineering practices and modular codebases.

Skills

System architecture

Full-stack engineering

Leadership & mentoring

Real-time systems

APIs & developer platforms

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

TypeScript/JavaScript

Job description

Referment in London seeks a Head of Engineering to own the technical direction across AI, backend and frontend. You’ll translate product goals into scalable architecture, mentor a small team, and align delivery with product strategy from day one.

You’ll work closely with product and AI leadership, shaping code, systems and processes as the company grows, balancing speed with sustainable design in a fast-moving startup.