
Technical Lead
Orbital Witness
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudDockerKubernetesMicroservicesPythonReactTypeScript
About the role
- Support a talented team of AI engineers and software engineers, mentoring them to create groundbreaking, scalable AI-driven SaaS products that are changing the way Real Estate is transacted.
- Architect and design AI systems from the ground up, ensuring that they are cutting-edge, robust, and scalable to meet real-world challenges.
- Drive the entire development lifecycle—concept to production—taking ownership of projects and the opportunity to see your ideas come to life.
- Work closely with diverse teams—product, AI Engineering, Product Design and Legal Engineering—to bring creative solutions to market that perfectly align with business goals.
- Lead efforts to continuously enhance code quality, reliability, and development processes, driving innovation through automation, testing, and best practices.
- Play a key role in managing the technical roadmap, where you'll balance immediate deliverables with strategic growth and cutting-edge technology.
- Work with the latest frontier models including GPT-5 and Claude 3.5 across text and vision, incorporating them into our platform and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
- Ensure the scalability of our domain specific AI product, Orbital Copilot, contributing to solutions that not only meet but exceed industry standards.
- Oversee and enforce secure coding practices and compliance with company information security policies, standards, and ISO 27001 requirements across the development team.
Requirements
- Proven experience (3+ years) as a Technical Lead, hands-on engineering manager or similar leadership role in AI/ML, software development, or SaaS start-ups.
- You have a keen interest the latest in Gen AI and LLMs, algorithms, and technologies (e.g., NLP, computer vision, predictive analytics).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and experience with microservices, containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- You have hands-on experience with Python, React, Typescript, Kubernetes.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead, inspire and motivate a team.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Start-up mindset: positive, enthusiastic, adaptable, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Matched pension contributions
- Flexible working hours and location
- 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AI systems architectureAI-driven SaaS productsPythonReactTypescriptNLPcomputer visionpredictive analyticsmicroservicesDevOps
Soft skills
leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationmentoringinnovationadaptabilityproactivityinspirationmotivation