Software Engineer in Watford

Software Engineer – £65,000–£85,000 + Equity – Remote (UK) – London office if preferred

The Opportunity

Join a fast-growing, AI-native software company building workflow automation tools used daily by thousands of professionals across people-heavy industries.

The platform removes manual, repetitive work through AI, automation and thoughtful product design, helping teams move faster and focus on higher-value tasks.

You'll join at an exciting scale-up stage where the product has strong traction, real revenue and clear product-market fit, but still plenty of greenfield engineering challenges ahead.

This is a role for someone who enjoys ownership, autonomy and building features that customers genuinely rely on every single day.

About the Role

You'll join a high-performing, collaborative engineering team where engineers are trusted owners, not ticket-takers.

• Design, build and ship features end-to-end across the stack

• Develop scalable backend services in Python

• Own work from design through implementation, testing and deployment

• Help shape architecture and engineering standards as the platform scales

• Work closely with product, QA and other engineers to solve real customer problems

The team values clean design, maintainable systems and thoughtful decision-making over rushing out short-term fixes.

What You'll Be Working On

• Backend services and APIs in Python

• Distributed systems and third-party integrations

• Workflow automation features powered by AI and LLMs

• Frontend product experiences used constantly throughout the day

• Reliability, performance and scalability as usage grows

• Continuous improvements to developer experience and code quality

You'll get breadth, impact and variety rather than being siloed into one small area.

Skills and Experience

• Strong experience building backend systems in Python

• Comfortable working across the stack or keen to grow into full-stack ownership

• Experience with APIs, integrations and distributed systems

• Startup or scale-up experience where you've shipped real product

• Product mindset, you care about why you're building something, not just how

• Clear communicator who collaborates well with cross-functional teams

• Pragmatic, quality-focused engineer who values maintainable code

• Degree

Nice to have but not required:

• AWS or cloud infrastructure experience

• Browser/email extensions

• LLM or AI-powered features

Location: Remote or Hybrid (UK-based team)

Compensation: £65,000–£85,000 + equity

Team: Product-focused engineering, high ownership, low ego

Stage: High-growth scale-up with strong traction

*No sponsorship offered

Software Engineer – £65,000–£85,000 + Equity – Remote (UK) – London office if preferred