Senior AI Developer

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong full-stack development experience, including React/Node.js, .NET/C#, and Python/FastAPI.
• Proven background delivering production software in client-facing environments.
• Experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG, or agentic AI development.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor.
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor others.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable working autonomously and shaping ambiguity into structured delivery.
• Azure AI Engineer certification is desirable.
• Understanding of MCP, vector databases, and AI evaluation/testing approaches is desirable.
• Experience mentoring or leading small development teams is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-integrated applications using modern full-stack technologies.
• Build features powered by LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG patterns, and MCP integrations.
• Work directly with customers to shape requirements and translate them into working software.
• Integrate Azure AI services such as Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services, Azure ML, and AI Search.
• Provide technical leadership, ensuring engineering rigour, code quality, and best practice.
• Support pre-sales activity through prototyping, research, and proof-of-concept development.
• Define and prove a scalable, repeatable pattern for delivering AI solutions across the organisation.
• Build reusable components, accelerators, and tools to increase delivery speed and consistency.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and introduce best-fit approaches into engineering practice.
• Champion AI-assisted development techniques including vibe coding, agentic development, and AI-driven testing.
• Mentor and upskill developers as AI delivery expands into the wider engineering team.
• Contribute to product and delivery strategy, identifying opportunities to package AI capabilities.

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Cursor
• FastAPI
• GitHub
• Support
• LLM
• MCP
• Python
• RAG
• React
• ASP.NET
• NodeJS

More:

We are a leading UK technology and managed services organisation delivering modern cloud, data, AI, and application solutions. We help our customers unlock the full potential of Microsoft-aligned innovation, combining strong engineering capability with a people-first culture. This is a hybrid role based in Reading, and you will initially join an innovation-focused team to establish a mature, repeatable pattern for AI delivery before transitioning into the wider delivery function to scale these practices across multiple projects and teams. We offer a values-driven, collaborative, and growth-focused environment with genuine investment in employee development, wellbeing, and long-term career progression. Benefits include structured learning pathways, competitive salary progression, generous leave, wellbeing support, health cash plans, volunteering days, life assurance, EV and tech schemes, retail discounts, onsite gyms where available, and regular social events.

last updated 34 week of 2026