Lead AI-Driven API & Platform Engineer
Guidant Global
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Job summary
Guidant Global is seeking a Senior/Lead Software Engineer or Lead DevOps Engineer to drive technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps teams in London. You will define API-first architectural directions, modernise legacy apps into service-based architectures, and shape integration patterns between apps, platforms, and AI services.
You will collaborate with architects, data scientists, product teams, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions while upholding security,
Qualifications
- A strong background as a Senior or Lead Software Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, or similar hands-on technical leadership role.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including system design, clean code, testing, and maintainability.
- Strong experience designing and delivering API-driven and microservice-based systems.
- Proven ability to modernise or integrate legacy applications into modern software and platform architectures.
- Solid development experience in TypeScript and Python.
- Experience working across software delivery, infrastructure, CI/CD, and operational environments.
- Confidence providing technical leadership and architectural direction without relying on formal authority.
- Ability to balance innovation with pragmatism in complex, production environments.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps engineering teams.
- Set architectural direction for API-first design, system integration, and platform enablement for AI.
- Lead the evolution of legacy or existing applications towards modern, service-based and API-driven architectures.
- Define and guide integration patterns between applications, platforms, and AI services.
- Make informed decisions on when and how emerging integration approaches (e.g. MCP) should be applied as part of broader system design.
- Work closely with architects, product teams, data scientists, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Ensure solutions meet appropriate standards for security, resilience, performance, and operability.
- Anticipate and manage architectural and operational risks associated with AI-enabled systems.
- Champion strong engineering practices across software development, DevOps, and platform engineering.
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Job description
Guidant Global is seeking a Senior/Lead Software Engineer or Lead DevOps Engineer to drive technical leadership across AI-enabled software and DevOps teams in London. You will define API-first architectural directions, modernise legacy apps into service-based architectures, and shape integration patterns between apps, platforms, and AI services.
You will collaborate with architects, data scientists, product teams, and platform engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions while upholding security,
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