Senior AI Native Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Charity leave 3 days

Job summary

Accenture, based in London, seeks a Senior AI Native Software Engineer to lead end-to-end product development across full stack, with a strong emphasis on AI-native systems and firm engineering discipline. The role requires extensive experience in production software and AI tooling, with collaboration across product, design, and client teams.

You will own technical direction, build scalable AI-enabled solutions, and ensure reliability and security while delivering value to customers in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production software development experience.
• 8+ years across full stack (frontend and backend).
• 8+ years software engineering fundamentals (design, APIs, security, observability).
• 2+ years hands-on AI-native engineering experience.
• 1+ year building reliable AI/agentic systems to production.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship full-stack capabilities end to end.
• Design AI-native products and agentic systems.
• Lead engineering model work and CI pipelines for AI tooling.
• Set technical direction; balance speed, security, and cost.
• Own production reliability, observability, and customer outcomes.
• Raise the engineering bar with rigorous reviews.

Skills

AI-native engineering

Full stack development

Software fundamentals

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AI development tools

LLM APIs

Job description

Senior AI Native Software Engineer - Products

Location: London

Salary: Competitive salary package depending on experience

Career Level: Accenture will be recruiting at the following levels:Associate Director & Senior Manager)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” -Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

We Are

Accenture is building a new portfolio of agentic software products in the industries we have spent decades helping to transform. We begin with advantages most product companies do nothave:deep industryexpertise, trusted relationships with many of the world’s largest organizations, and direct access to the complex workflows and problems that matter most to them. That allows us to build closely with customers while creating repeatable products that can be taken broadly to market.

We are forming small, highly capable product teams to do this. These teams bring product management, design, and engineering together with the autonomy to move quickly, make decisions, and own outcomes from the earliest prototype through production and scale.

This is a software engineering role within a permanent product team. It is not a consulting delivery, data engineering, product management, or forward-deployed engineering role.

You Are

You are an exceptional AI-native software engineer who has built and shipped production products across the full stack. You combine strong engineering fundamentals with product judgment, systems thinking, and a high bar for quality. You are comfortable beginning with an ambiguous customer or business problem, shaping the technical approach, and turning it into software that real users rely on.

AI is central to both what you build and how you build. You use coding agents and other AI development tools as a core part of your daily workflow. You know how to decompose work, provide the right context and constraints,establishtests and evaluations, and review generated output with rigor. You use AI to increase your leverage whileretainingfull accountability for the architecture, security, reliability, and quality of the product.

You are energized by zero-to-one work, small teams, high autonomy, and the opportunity to help define how a new product engineering organization shouldoperate.

What You Will Do

Build and ship across the full stack.

Own meaningful product capabilities end to end, including application architecture, data models, backend services, APIs, integrations, AI systems, and user experiences. Work directly with product managers and designers to turn customer problems into simple, high-quality products. Move comfortably between prototyping and production engineering, making thoughtful decisions about when tooptimize forspeed and when to investforscale, security, and reliability.

Build AI-native products.

Design and implement agentic systems, including model interactions, tool use, retrieval, orchestration, state management, evaluations, observability, and guardrails. Build products that perform reliably against complex, real-world industry workflows rather than only in controlled demonstrations. Evaluate model and system behavior rigorously, understand failure modes, and improve the product through evidence.

Work in an AI-native engineering model.

Use coding agents and AI development tools extensively throughout the engineering lifecycle. Createthe context, specifications, tests, development environments, CI pipelines, and evaluation systems that allow agents to produce high-quality work safely and efficiently. Direct multiple streams of agent-assisted work whereappropriate, review outputs critically, and remain accountable for everything that reaches production.

Set technicaldirection.

Translate ambiguous product opportunities into clear technical approaches and executable plans. Make sound architecture decisions for new product areas and carry those decisions fromprototype throughproduction. Balance speed, simplicity, extensibility, security, cost, and operational reliability.Identifywhere the team should build, buy, integrate, or deliberately defer.

Own product and production outcomes.

Stay close to users and customers and understand the workflows your software is changing. Use customer feedback, product data, evaluations, and operational signals to improve the product continuously. Own reliability, observability, security, performance, and maintainability in production. Treat successful adoption and customer outcomes as engineering concerns.

Raise the engineering bar.

Provide rigorous technical review on the work that matters most. Help other engineers improve their judgment, execution, and use of AI-native development practices. Contribute to the shared architecture, tools, standards, and operating practices of the broader product engineering organization. Help define how small, AI-native product teams should work as the company grows.

Qualification

What You Bring

• Minimum of 8 years eight years of experience building and shipping production software.

• Minimum of 8 years experience building across the full stack, including frontend and backend systems.
• Minimum of 8 years software engineering fundamentals, including system design, data modeling, APIs, testing, cloud-native development, security, observability, and production operations.

• Minimum 2 years of substantive, hands-on AI-native engineering experience as part of your day-to-day work. This may include building with LLM APIs, coding agents, agent frameworks, tool integrations, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, or production guardrails.
• Minimum 1 year of experience building reliable AI or agentic systems thatoperatebeyond a prototype or demonstration environment including a track recordof taking products, systems, or major capabilities from zero to one and owning them through production.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).

Required Professional Skills

• Demonstrated ability to use AI development tools to materially increase engineering leverage without lowering the quality bar
• Excellent judgment under ambiguity and the ability to make progress without complete information.
• Strong product instincts and the ability to recognize what makes a product useful, intuitive, and well crafted.
• The ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and work closely with product managers, designers, customers, and domain experts.
• The ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and work closely with product managers, designers, customers, and domain experts.
• A genuine interest in frontier AI and a consistent habit of testing new models, tools, and engineering approaches in practice.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will alsohave an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications 22/01/27

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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Locations

London

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