Senior AI Software Engineer — Platform & Automation

Unitary; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid in London

Competitive salary and equity package

Generous paid parental leave

Generous paid sick leave

Annual development budget

Team offsites in Europe

Job summary

Unitary is hiring a product-focused software engineer in London to build and scale AI-driven automation solutions. You will work across the stack with machine learning, product, and platform engineering to deliver capabilities that empower customers and drive growth.

You will own hands-on development in a fast-growing startup, shaping a new product, and refining existing systems for reliability at scale. Hybrid work in London is available with competitive compensation and equity.

Qualifications

• Expert Python development experience and production-grade code.
• Experience taking a product from 0 to 1 or productising a service offering.
• Experience re-imagining and refactoring systems to scale reliably.

Responsibilities

• Work with operations engineering lead and customer success to set priorities across multiple customers and ensure operational excellence.
• Triage and resolve technical issues raised by customers and internal teams.
• Lead or contribute to post-mortems when service levels breach, identifying root causes and driving preventive improvements.
• Operate the AI decision engine to improve automation accuracy.
• Update customer workflows when requirements change and confirm delivery timelines with the customer.
• Contribute to internal tooling and automation to drive day-to-day efficiency.
• Write and maintain runbooks and documentation for the internal agent operations teams.
• Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation.

Skills

Python development

Product-to-market experience

Refactor for scale

AI coding agents

Engineering best practices

Hands-on in next 12 months

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

Unitary is hiring a product-focused software engineer in London to build and scale AI-driven automation solutions. You will work across the stack with machine learning, product, and platform engineering to deliver capabilities that empower customers and drive growth.

You will own hands-on development in a fast-growing startup, shaping a new product, and refining existing systems for reliability at scale. Hybrid work in London is available with competitive compensation and equity.