Staff Engineer

Burns Sheehan; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Ltd is partnering with a fast-growing AI startup in Central London. They are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build AI-powered products, deploy LLM-driven workflows, and own full-stack features across the platform.

This hands-on role demands breadth across Python, TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks, and a product-minded approach to delivering business value. Hybrid working pattern: 1 day per week in Central London, with equity on offer.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building AI native products or AI-powered internal tools in production.
• Strong ownership and product-minded approach to delivering features.
• Ability to design reliable backend systems around AI use cases.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on role building AI-powered products and production workflows.
• Contribute to architecture and deployment of AI capabilities.
• Collaborate with a small, high-caliber team to ship features.

Skills

Fullstack engineering

Python

TypeScript

React

Vue.js

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - AI Enabled Scale Up

Hybrid, Central London (1 day/week)

£120,000-140,000 + equity

Python, TypeScript, LLM workflows, Fullstack

AI SaaS platform - live with major enterprise clients

Small, high-calibre engineering team - real ownership, AI-native product building

We're partnered with a fast-growing AI startup on a mission to help large organisations harness AI at scale. Their platform is already live with major enterprise clients across professional services, government and tech - and they're scaling quickly off the back of a recent Seed round backed by some of the UK's top investors.

They're now looking to hire an experienced IC in the shape of a Staff Software Engineer to work across team. This is likely to be someone who can demonstrate a breadth and depth of experience across the fullstack within AI enabled environments. This is a hands on role building AI-powered products and chaining LLM-driven processes into production workflows.

The engineering team is small, sharp, and highly product-focused. Engineers work with real ownership and move quickly, with the chance to shape how AI systems are designed and deployed across the platform. The environment is genuinely AI-native, with strong internal adoption of AI tooling and a high bar for practical fluency.

You'll be joining at an exciting point in the company's growth: the product is already proven in market, but there's still lots of room to influence architecture, workflow design, and how AI capabilities are embedded into the product over time.

Ideal profile:

• Strong Fullstack engineering background, ideally using Python, TypeScript and Reactjs/Vuejs - However the exact tech stack is not important, a generalist would do well in this role.
• Experience building AI native products or AI-powered internal tools in production
• Comfortable designing reliable backend systems around AI use cases, not just basic API integrations
• Able to work in a product-minded way, translating AI capability into practical features and business value

Staff Software Engineer - AI Enabled Scale Up

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.