Senior Software Engineer, AI Team

We’re on a mission to provide equitable access to economic opportunity, for everyone.

We close critical skill gaps in the workforce through a new kind of apprenticeship that combines work and learning. We begin by recognizing high-potential individuals both inside and outside of a company's current workforce and then we create applied, guided and equitable learning programs, with measurable impact. Because we believe the world needs a better way to match its potential.

We work with over 1,500 leading companies including the likes of Microsoft, Citi and Just Eat to help solve their business-critical problems, and we’ve trained over 16,000 professional apprentices in the tech and data skills of the future. This is made possible by our global team who are driven to achieve a mission that matters, together.

Join Multiverse and help us set a new course for work.

The Opportunity

Our engineering, data, design and product team at Multiverse is 150 strong. The AI Team is an autonomous organisation that partners closely with our Feature and Foundations teams to deliver impactful experiences across our platform.

The AI Team’s products are backend AI services and full-stack applications that will be integrated into the Multiverse platform to benefit our customers and users.  The goal of the AI Team is to focus on creating step-change improvements in the product through high-risk, high-impact AI investments.

This is a unique opportunity to join a small, fast-paced, and high ownership engineering team that is responsible for Multiverse’s AI strategy and development. In this role, you will work directly with ML Engineers developing AI Services at the cutting edge of AI technology and building full-stack applications that bring this AI technology to our users.

No two days at Multiverse are the same, so we are looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity, is proactive, and can successfully tackle unknown unknowns. Fun fact: most members of the AI Team has worked at an early-stage startup before. We bring a sense of urgency to everything we do.

If you're passionate about solving complex engineering challenges in a collaborative environment and are motivated by creating a significant, positive impact on others' lives, we would love to connect with you.

Our goal is to provide the support and autonomy you need to do the best work of your career. We strive to create an environment where everyone can thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Work autonomously to deliver large projects that may have a high level of uncertainty and risk, with a pragmatic approach to estimation, scoping and planning.

• Design and implement AI solutions, leverage ML infrastructure, and evaluate tradeoffs between different techniques.

• Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.

• Follow and promote best practices to solve complex challenges with reliable, performant and elegant solutions that are easy to work with

• Own the technical output and standards for the team, ensuring engineering and operational excellence.

• Actively participate in defining the team's strategy and bring technical perspective into account.

• Give useful and effective feedback, actively seek to improve the entire team by regularly sharing knowledge and mentoring others.

• You will be writing Python code every day

• Develop interactive full-stack experiences using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.

• Design and implement robust back-end APIs for seamless integration.

• Enhance developer workflows with optimised CI/CD pipelines and containerisation in AWS and Azure.

• Write efficient, well-tested, and maintainable code.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analysing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
  

This role is ideal for you if:

• You care deeply about software engineering and want to improve in your craft.

• You are motivated by having a significant impact through your work.

• You know how to work sustainably at high velocity.

• You understand that making trade-offs is part of the job and can collaborate with peers, squad leads, and business partners to make decisions at pace.

• You enjoy owning projects from start to finish.

• You are excited to work at the cutting edge of AI technology.

About You

• 5+ years of experience working in cross-functional product teams.

• Strong proficiency in Python

• Proven track record of having impact, working in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment.

• Experience working across the entire development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to testing and maintaining/supporting production systems.

• Comfortable working on both ongoing projects and initiating new ones.