Staff AI Engineer — Remote AI tooling for developers

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working (3 days in-office)

Private health cover

Employee referral programme

Retirement savings plan

Office meals & snacks

Cycle-to-work scheme

Job summary

Lendable is recruiting a Staff AI Engineer in London to empower developers and accelerate AI product delivery. You will own end-to-end AI tooling, from concept through production, collaborating with product managers and engineers to raise developer efficiency.

You will lead the design of AI systems, ship reliable tooling, and contribute to security, data governance, and best practices across teams. This role offers ownership and visible impact in a fast-growing fintech.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in a mid-to-large-size organisation.
• Experience of building AI tooling to improve developer experience (devex).
• The ability to influence how people work across multiple teams.
• Proven experience building AI tooling used by others in a commercial environment.
• Strong full-stack skills in TypeScript.
• Frontend skills with Next.js or React to build interfaces for engineers.
• Strong AI knowledge — LLMs, embeddings, MCPs, RAG, evals, agentic platforms.
• Experience building infrastructure to support your systems in production using IaC, k8s or lambda functions.
• Self-starter who takes ownership end-to-end — from understanding the problem to monitoring and iteration.
• Motivated by impact — you want to see your work used and making a difference.

Responsibilities

• Build on top of our AI cloud coding agent.
• Build the core of our AI harness.
• Enable capabilities in these agents for specification, testing, and service reliability.
• Work with security and data governance requirements to ensure the agents are secure and have access to the appropriate data.
• Encourage teams to level up their AI software development processes.
• Enable teams to build AI actors that plug into the SDLC.
• Help teams measure the impact AI is having on the development process.
• Transplant good ideas and processes from one team to other teams in the organization.

Skills

6+ years of software engineering

AI tooling experience

Influence across teams

AI tooling in commercial environments

TypeScript

Next.js/React

AI knowledge: LLMs, embeddings, RAG

IaC / Kubernetes / Lambda

Ownership and end-to-end delivery

Impact-oriented

Tools

Cloudflare infrastructure

Datadog

Sentry

Grafana

SLOs & DORA metrics

Job description

Lendable is recruiting a Staff AI Engineer in London to empower developers and accelerate AI product delivery. You will own end-to-end AI tooling, from concept through production, collaborating with product managers and engineers to raise developer efficiency.

You will lead the design of AI systems, ship reliable tooling, and contribute to security, data governance, and best practices across teams. This role offers ownership and visible impact in a fast-growing fintech.