Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI

Burns Sheehan; Greater London; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Limited is seeking a Lead Product Engineer to drive an AI-native product engineering transformation. You will lead a small team of 2-3 engineers, own the technical direction, and work closely with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing software leveraging AI agents.

This hands-on leadership role is remote in the UK with occasional travel to the HQ. You'll shape workflows, tooling and feedback loops to embed agentic AI across the development lifecycle while maintaining code

Qualifications

• Hands-on Tech Lead or Engineering Manager experience
• Strong full-stack development fundamentals
• Demonstrable experience using AI agents to build and ship production software
• Experience introducing agentic workflows and tooling
• Strong product mindset with close collaboration with Product/Design
• Ability to lead and develop a small engineering team while remaining hands-on
• Commercial awareness and focus on customer/business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of 2-3 engineers and own the technical direction
• Architect and deliver production software with a hands-on approach
• Introduce agentic engineering practices and feedback loops
• Collaborate with Product and Design to align with business outcomes
• Balance speed with quality and establish new ways of working within the team

Skills

Tech Lead

Full-stack

AI agents

Agentic workflows

Product mindset

Team leadership

Commercial awareness

Tools

React

React Native

Expo

Job description

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI | AI-Native Product Engineering

UK Remote | Occasional travel to company HQ

£100,000-£120,000

AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, Full-Stack Product Engineering, Tech Leadership

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI - We're working with an established UK consumer technology business that is embarking on a major AI-driven transformation. They have recently migrated their core products onto a new platform and they're now reimagining how the entire business operates, moving away from traditional project-based delivery towards empowered product teams with AI at the heart of how they build and deliver software.

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, leading a small team of approximately 2-3 engineers within a product-focused environment. Working closely with Product and Design, you'll take ownership of the technical direction and delivery of customer-facing products, with shared accountability for the commercial outcomes of your value stream. You'll be expected to use AI agents as a core part of how you design, build, test and ship software, introducing the workflows, context, tooling and feedback loops that enable agents to contribute meaningfully throughout the development lifecycle.

Alongside leading and developing your team, you'll remain close to the code, making architectural decisions, building production software and ensuring quality doesn't get sacrificed for speed. You'll also help establish new ways of working, moving towards an engineering model where coordinating AI agents becomes an increasingly important part of technical leadership.

This is a genuine player-coach position, combining people leadership, technical delivery, product thinking and agentic engineering.

What will the Lead Product Engineer bring?

• Experience as a hands-on Tech Lead, Engineering Manager or Staff-level Engineer with leadership responsibilities.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and full-stack development capability.
• Demonstrable experience using AI agents extensively to build and ship production software.
• Experience introducing agentic workflows, tooling, context and quality controls.
• A strong product mindset, with experience working closely with Product and Design.
• The ability to lead and develop a small engineering team while remaining technically hands-on.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in measuring engineering success through customer and business outcomes.

Experience with web and mobile products, React, React Native, Expo, modernising legacy applications or building custom agents and MCP integrations would be particularly interesting.

Why This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to join an established business with the ambition and appetite to completely rethink how it builds technology. You'll have genuine ownership over a product area, the freedom to shape how your team operates and the opportunity to introduce agentic engineering practices that could fundamentally change how software is delivered.

You'll work closely with senior technology leadership and have the opportunity to help establish a new engineering culture, where small, empowered teams use AI agents to deliver more, move faster and stay focused on solving real customer problems.

For a hands-on Lead Product Engineer who enjoys building great products, developing engineers and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with agentic AI, this is a particularly interesting opportunity.

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI | AI-Native Product Engineering

UK Remote | Occasional travel to company HQ

£100,000-£120,000

AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, Full-Stack Product Engineering, Tech Leadership

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.