At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to shape the core architecture of an innovative AI product.
- Company: Exciting early-stage AI company with global ambitions.
- Benefits: Highly competitive package, equity, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Join at a pivotal moment to influence product development.
- Why this job: Make impactful architectural decisions in a hands-on leadership role.
- Qualifications: Strong backend engineering experience and ability to lead senior engineers.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 £ per year.
Location: United Kingdom | Hybrid / Flexible
Highly competitive package + equity
We are partnering with a well-funded, early-stage AI company with global ambitions to appoint a VP of Engineering, Applications. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to help shape the core application architecture behind an ambitious AI-native product. The company is building a proactive smart assistant designed for everyday use, combining sophisticated AI capabilities with reliable, scalable software engineering.
The Opportunity
- Own application architecture across backend services, APIs and client integrations
- Lead a small, senior team across backend, mobile and desktop
- Design reliable integrations between AI systems and user-facing products
- Drive production reliability through observability, monitoring, retries, fallbacks and failure handling
- Partner closely with Machine Learning leadership to turn model capabilities into real product features
- Make pragmatic trade-offs across latency, cost, reliability, security and user experience
- Stay hands-on through design reviews, code reviews and key technical decisions
What We’re Looking For
- Strong hands-on backend and application engineering experience
- Experience designing and shipping complex production systems
- Deep understanding of APIs, services, integrations and data flows
- Experience integrating AI or ML capabilities into real products
- Strong instincts around reliability, observability and failure handling
- The ability to lead senior engineers without moving away from the technology
- Comfort working across backend, mobile and desktop, even if your deepest expertise sits in one area
- A strong builder mentality and bias towards shipping
- Previous Technical Lead experience is useful, but title is not the deciding factor. Strong Staff or Principal Engineers, hands-on Engineering Leads and technically deep Engineering Managers could all be relevant.
Why This Is Different
You’ll be joining while many of the important architectural decisions are still being made. There is real scope to influence what gets built, how it gets built and how the engineering team develops around it. For the right person, this is an opportunity to help build the application layer behind an ambitious global AI product — and have a genuine stake in what it becomes.
Wanted: Vice President of Engineering, Applications employer: Burton Recruitment Limited
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Contact Details:
Burton Recruitment Limited Recruitment Team
