Senior AI Platform Engineer — Agentic Automation

Preply; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lessons allowance for learning

L&D budget

Equity

Leave allowance

Job summary

Preply is seeking an experienced engineer to join the R&D Automation team to design and implement AI-powered agents and workflows. You will build scalable Python-based agents, create reusable capabilities, and integrate with our engineering ecosystem to automate complex tasks across disciplines.

You will prototype rapidly, validate ideas, and scale successful approaches, balancing AI value with essential human judgement while collaborating with product, design and data teams to drive adoption

Qualifications

• Extensive experience (~8 years) designing and building complex backend software systems.
• Strong software engineering skills with production experience using Python.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents, agentic workflows or platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern agentic AI patterns, including context management, tool use, orchestration and evaluation/verification.
• Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, MCPs, internal tools, codebases and other engineering systems.
• Experience taking new technical ideas from experimentation or proof of concept into robust, scalable solutions.
• A strong experimentation mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, iterating quickly and using data and feedback to determine what works.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture for reliable AI-powered systems.
• Strong product thinking, with the ability to understand user workflows and connect technical solutions to measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agents and the harness that power them using Python.
• Build reusable agent capabilities, tools and integrations that connect AI systems with our engineering ecosystem and internal knowledge.
• Develop agentic workflows across Engineering, Product, Design and Data, including coding, testing and code review, and across the broader software development lifecycle.
• Experiment rapidly with new AI capabilities, taking ideas from proof of concept through validation and scalable adoption.
• Design effective context, orchestration and verification mechanisms for reliable agentic workflows.
• Measure how agents are used and the value they create, using data and feedback to continuously improve them.
• Make thoughtful decisions about where AI can add value, where human judgment remains essential, and how the two should work together.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, product, and data teams across Preply to understand their workflows, drive adoption and identify new opportunities for automation.

Skills

Python

Backend systems

AI agents

Distributed systems

APIs integration

Code review

Experimentation mindset

Data-driven

Strong communication

Product thinking

Job description

Preply is seeking an experienced engineer to join the R&D Automation team to design and implement AI-powered agents and workflows. You will build scalable Python-based agents, create reusable capabilities, and integrate with our engineering ecosystem to automate complex tasks across disciplines.

You will prototype rapidly, validate ideas, and scale successful approaches, balancing AI value with essential human judgement while collaborating with product, design and data teams to drive adoption