Senior Software Engineer, Data & ML in Production AI

Ocado Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Pension with employer matching up to 7

Cycle to Work Scheme

Sharesave & BAYE

Job summary

Ocado Group in Westminster seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Autoplanner team to own end-to-end production Python services and cloud-based ML deployments. You will partner with data scientists to productionize algorithms, build robust APIs, and raise engineering standards across Ocado Technology.

You will drive architecture decisions, improve CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to ADRs while supporting on-call production services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning end-to-end production Python services.
• Extensive background building data-intensive cloud applications.
• Strong knowledge of AWS/GCP identity, networking, and messaging.
• Rigorous testing, CI/CD, and production-quality software craft.
• Experience with MLOps, packaging, serving, and monitoring ML models.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain data- and ML-driven, cloud-based applications using clean, typed Python.
• Build and maintain robust APIs and data contracts for data science teams and broader Ocado systems.
• Manage cloud deployments and improve CI/CD pipelines across diverse AWS environments.
• Package, version, serve, and monitor machine learning models in live production environments.
• Drive architecture decisions across repository, application, and system levels, documenting them as ADRs.
• Partner directly with data scientists to transition advanced algorithms and models into scalable production systems.
• Collaborate with software engineers across Ocado Technology to integrate applications within the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP).
• Elevate engineering practices across the team through pairing, code reviews, shared tooling, and responsible AI agent integration.
• Share in on-call and production support responsibilities for critical live operational services.
• Demonstrated track record of collaborating effectively with data scientists and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Practical experience using AI coding agents on production codebases, with a sharp judgment on validating and verifying AI-generated output.

Skills

Python (typed)

Data-focused systems

Collaboration with data scientists

End-to-end production services

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Ocado Group in Westminster seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Autoplanner team to own end-to-end production Python services and cloud-based ML deployments. You will partner with data scientists to productionize algorithms, build robust APIs, and raise engineering standards across Ocado Technology.

You will drive architecture decisions, improve CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to ADRs while supporting on-call production services.