Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead - AI-Driven Platforms

GoodPeople; West End; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Sponsor licence

Healthcare after probation

Stakeholder pension

Job summary

GoodPeople in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior engineer to own our proprietary job matching tech and lead our long-term offshore development team. You'll work with the COO on product direction, budgets for AI tooling, and capacity planning.

The live stack includes Next.js, React, Strapi, Postgres, LangGraph and FastAPI. You will drive architecture, data pipelines, security, accessibility, and delivery, shaping the future of our platforms.

Qualifications

• Proficient Python and FastAPI experience.
• Experience deploying LLM-powered features.
• Ownership of a production system.
• Technical leadership: setting standards and guiding a team.
• AI-first mindset with good judgement on when to trust AI tools.
• Clear communication with non-technical colleagues and funders.

Responsibilities

• Architecture: own design for one codebase with feature flags and documentation.
• Data pipelines and AI: own job sourcing pipeline and AI services (Python, LangGraph, FastAPI).
• Security and data protection: align with UK GDPR and security standards.
• Accessibility: ensure platforms meet WCAG 2.2 AA.
• Impact reporting: track outcomes data for funders.
• Quality and reliability: implement testing, staging, release, rollback and monitoring.
• SEO: optimize visibility via Google Jobs and AI/traditional search.
• Leadership: set engineering standards and participate in hiring decisions.
• Delivery: translate commitments into realistic roadmaps with the COO.

Tools

Next.js

React

Strapi

Postgres

LangGraph

Git

Job description

GoodPeople in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior engineer to own our proprietary job matching tech and lead our long-term offshore development team. You'll work with the COO on product direction, budgets for AI tooling, and capacity planning.

The live stack includes Next.js, React, Strapi, Postgres, LangGraph and FastAPI. You will drive architecture, data pipelines, security, accessibility, and delivery, shaping the future of our platforms.