Senior AI Software Engineer — Remote & Production-Focused

muckrack; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Phone and internet reimbursement

Coworking membership

Job summary

Muck Rack in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced software engineer to help design and ship AI-powered agents for PR workflows. You’ll work across Python runtime, MCP server, and a Django/Vue stack to move ideas into production.

You’ll build tools and prompts, ship in‑product experiences, and measure AI quality to improve latency and cost. The role requires 7+ years of production software experience and strong Python skills.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production software.
• Fluent Python, including async programming and frameworks like FastAPI or Django.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered features or agents to real customers including exposing tools via MCP.
• Practical understanding of prompting, tool use, context management, and where models go wrong.
• Experience measuring AI quality and using what you learn to improve it.
• Strong API and tool design skills, including authentication and authorization.
• Proactively incorporates AI tools into day-to-day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery.
• Working-hour overlap with US time zones (Eastern preferred).

Responsibilities

• Build agents that take action. Build tools, prompts, guardrails, and multi-turn workflows with memory.
• Ship the full experience. Build in-product chat, streaming responses, permission-aware APIs, and our external MCP server.
• Make quality measurable. Build evals, catch regressions, and use production feedback to improve quality, latency, and cost.
• Help shape the platform. Make decisions about how we build, deploy, and run agents as the product grows.

Skills

Python programming

Async programming

API design

AI tooling

Team collaboration

Tools

FastAPI

FastMCP

Django

Pydantic AI

LangGraph

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

Muck Rack in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced software engineer to help design and ship AI-powered agents for PR workflows. You’ll work across Python runtime, MCP server, and a Django/Vue stack to move ideas into production.

You’ll build tools and prompts, ship in‑product experiences, and measure AI quality to improve latency and cost. The role requires 7+ years of production software experience and strong Python skills.