Staff Engineer – Real-Time AI Infra Lead

meet Dex; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is partnering with a fast-growing company building a CRM for the AI era. You’ll join an engineering team responsible for a new product area, balancing hands-on development with leadership of a small team.

The role focuses on scalable backend or frontend work, with ownership from conception to delivery and ongoing iteration, while shaping architecture to support AI-native features.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in a modern typed language for backend or frontend (Go, TS/Node.js, Python, Rust, C++ or similar) or React frontend.
• Experience as a Tech Lead or Staff Engineer driving multi-engineer projects and technical direction.
• Hands-on experience designing secure, scalable backend systems on cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Willingness to take line-management responsibilities: hiring, growing, and owning engineer progression.
• Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly and influence decisions across product and design.

Responsibilities

• Deeply contribute to backend (TypeScript/Node.js, Go) or frontend (React) development.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a team of 3–5 engineers within your product area.
• Own a product area end-to-end from conception through delivery and iteration.
• Evolve core architecture to support scale and new AI-native features.
• Shape product decisions through customer conversations and technical insight.

Skills

Go

TypeScript/Node.js

React

Python

Rust

C++

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Dex is partnering with a fast-growing company building a CRM for the AI era. You’ll join an engineering team responsible for a new product area, balancing hands-on development with leadership of a small team.

The role focuses on scalable backend or frontend work, with ownership from conception to delivery and ongoing iteration, while shaping architecture to support AI-native features.