At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the transformation of a high-traffic procurement platform using PHP and Python.
- Company: Join one of the UK's leading procurement platforms with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: 28 days leave, flexible working, wellbeing budget, and 5 Impact Days for personal growth.
- Other info: Work remotely or in the office, with excellent career development opportunities.
- Why this job: Shape architectural decisions and influence the future of AI-native engineering.
- Qualifications: Experience in PHP/Laravel and Python, with a strong background in full stack development.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
You're the kind of engineer who sees a legacy codebase as a problem worth solving. You're comfortable across the full stack, you take agentic engineering seriously, and you want to influence technical direction rather than just execute against it. You'll be embedded into the product team of one of the UK's leading procurement platforms as your first project here. The platform connects organisations managing construction projects with the suppliers who deliver them. It's high‑traffic, mid‑transformation, and the architectural decisions that will define its next five years are still being made. The stack today is PHP/Laravel. That's where you'll start, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. The direction of travel is Python and a more modern, AI‑native architecture. You'll be part of shaping how it gets there.
What We're Looking For
- Comfortable working across PHP/Laravel and Python in commercial, production environments
- Strong experience at Lead or Senior Full Stack level
- Has shipped LLM or agentic tooling into real systems, not just experimented with it
- Knows AWS and has built scalable, cloud‑native APIs before
- Has enough front end range to work with React.js or Laravel Nova when needed
Here's What You Get In Return
You’ll be in the room when the big architectural decisions are made, not handed them after the fact. Your technical judgment will carry real weight here. You’ll also be asked to do more than write code. The limit on agentic engineering isn’t what you can produce, it's your ability to communicate clearly, spot problems early and define what good looks like. If that’s already how you work, you'll find this role fits the way you think. Working here means you're building agentic engineering experience across multiple clients and contexts, not just one. That's a different kind of career development than most roles can offer.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 5 Impact Days for learning, innovation or volunteering
- Flexible working environment
- Enhanced parental leave
- Annual wellbeing budget plus 2 wellbeing days
- Mental health support
- Company Mac
Location
You Can Work From Home, In The Office Or a Mix Of Both. We Just Ask That You're Based Within 30 Miles Of One Of Our Offices: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, London.
Lead Full Stack Engineer (AI/Agentic) in London employer: hedgehog lab
Join a forward-thinking team where your expertise as a Lead Full Stack Engineer will directly influence the architectural evolution of one of the UK's leading procurement platforms. With a flexible working environment, generous leave policies, and a strong focus on employee wellbeing and growth, you'll thrive in a culture that values your technical judgement and encourages agentic engineering across diverse projects. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of technology while enjoying a supportive work-life balance.
