Senior Software Engineer - AI-Powered Products

LADbible Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The LADbible Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and develop a growing portfolio of AI-powered products and business tools in Manchester. You will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to articulate problems, shape ideas and make sound architectural decisions.

This hands-on role covers the full product lifecycle, contributes to existing platforms and new products, and requires ownership of significant areas of work while enhancing engineering practices as

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in full-stack development and system design.
• Experience integrating generative AI or large language models into applications.
• Ability to review AI-generated output for quality, security and maintainability.
• Proven ability to work across unfamiliar systems and make sound technical trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Lead features and technical improvements from discovery through deployment and ongoing support.
• Build and maintain full-stack applications with web interfaces, APIs, databases and background services.
• Integrate AI models into product workflows, evaluating output quality, cost, performance and privacy.
• Design secure authentication, permissions and data boundaries for products used across teams and clients.
• Improve automated testing, observability and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to turn business needs into clear requirements and practical designs.

Skills

Full-stack development

AI integration

Cloud architecture

Security

Observability

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

Google Cloud

Terraform

Job description

The LADbible Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and develop a growing portfolio of AI-powered products and business tools in Manchester. You will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to articulate problems, shape ideas and make sound architectural decisions.

This hands-on role covers the full product lifecycle, contributes to existing platforms and new products, and requires ownership of significant areas of work while enhancing engineering practices as