Talent Search PRO
Hackney, London
Jan 22, 2026
Full time
What you will be doing: Oversee thearchitecture, development, and delivery of all software components, spanning web applications, backend systems, and Machine Learning (ML) infrastructure. Be a key partner to the heads of Hardware, Design Engineering, and Animal Science,ensuring software is seamlessly integrated with physical systems, user experience, and domain expertise. Define, implement, and scale thesoftware architecture across web, backend, and ML systems. Maintain strong engineering standards for code quality, security, testing, and deployment. Lead key technical initiatives, contributing code and architecture reviews. Drive integration of software with hardware systems pipelines. Build, lead, and mentora multidisciplinary engineering team. Establish effective workflows for development, QA, deployment, and iteration. Foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance engineering culture. Partner with People/HR in hiring and scaling the team. Collaborate closely with the heads of Hardware, Design Engineering, and Animal Science to ensure end-to-end product integration. Translate business and research needs into scalable software solutions. Balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability and scalability. Support leadership in communicating technical vision to investors, partners, and stakeholders. Experience you will need: 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 3 in a leadership role. Proven expertise inweb application development (frontend + backend). Hands on experience withmachine learning workflows and/or data heavy systems. Strong understanding ofcloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. Experience collaborating with cross functional hardware or science focused teams. Exceptional communication and leadership skills.