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AI Engineer | Up to £130,000 | Remote | Full-Time We've partnered with a well-funded Web3 infrastructure company eliminating blockchain fragmentation to recruit an AI Engineer. Following a $20M Series A, they're scaling fast and need someone who can supercharge the org through intelligent systems, reporting directly to the CTO. You'll own the full AI stack; internal tooling, developer experience, customer-facing products, and everything in between, in a technically ambitious environment where your work has immediate, visible impact. Key Responsibilities: • Build AI-powered internal tooling and automation across all teams, • Enhance developer workflows with AI coding assistants and DX improvements, • Develop and maintain customer-facing AI systems and support pipelines, • Architect large-scale RAG and knowledge systems, • Design multi-agent and agent swarm architectures, • Manage LLM integration, model selection and cost/performance optimisation, • Fine-tune domain-specific LLMs and maintain observability (LangFuse, W&B), • Build workflow automation pipelines with n8n and LangChain What We're Looking For: • Proven track record shipping AI systems in production, • Strong Python, TypeScript and/or JavaScript, • Hands-on expertise with LangChain, n8n and RAG at scale, • LLM fine-tuning and multi-agent architecture experience, • Familiarity with MCP and modern AI tooling (Cursor, Claude), • A product mindset: you identify what teams actually need and drive adoption Bonus: Voice AI/multimodal experience or open-source AI contributions If you want to build at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and Web3 infrastructure, with real ownership and outsized impact, this is the role for you.

📍 Remote | Full-Time 👋 About Us Medify is a mission-driven EdTech company widening access to medicine and healthcare careers. Our platform supports thousands of learners preparing for high-stakes admissions exams, and our engineering team plays a critical role in delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality learning experiences. Medify Engineering is a team of ten engineers across two teams, and everyone is hands on, including engineering management and the CTO, which helps us keep our processes practical and engineer-friendly. We work to minimise meetings: engineers typically have a 15-minute daily standup for in-progress updates and quick alignment with Product, plus (per two-week sprint) a one-hour refinement with Product, a one-hour planning session with engineering, and a 30-minute company-wide demo. Operational work like deployments, bug triage, and on-call is handled on a rotation, with each person covering one week roughly every two months. 🎯 The Role As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Medify, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our platform and technical direction. Working closely with the CTO and fellow engineers, you’ll be involved across the full software development lifecycle - from ideation and design through to development, testing, and deployment. This is a fully remote, home-based role, suited to someone who enjoys ownership, collaboration and solving complex problems in a fast-moving environment. Tech stack: Ruby on Rails (backend), frontend transitioning from Ember to React, Postgres database, hosted on AWS. 🧩 Key Responsibilities • Design and develop high-quality, scalable, and efficient software solutions using modern best practices, • Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams to understand requirements and provide technical input, • Contribute to architectural decisions and overall system design, • Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality, • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software issues efficiently, • Develop and maintain automated tests to ensure performance and reliability, • Mentor junior engineers and share technical knowledge and best practices, • Participate in agile planning, backlog management, and delivery updates, • Stay up to date with emerging technologies and software development best practices, • Support recruitment by contributing to interviews and selection decisions 🧠 Core Competencies • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, • Strong communication and collaboration skills, • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, • Leadership and mentoring capability, • High attention to detail and quality 🎓 Qualifications • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is desirable but not required 🛠️ Experience & Knowledge • 5+ years’ experience in software development, • Extensive experience with modern programming languages and frameworks, • (Ruby on Rails and React highly desirable), • Proven track record of building scalable, efficient software systems, • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and agile methodologies, • Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering), • Experience recruiting and mentoring junior engineers is a plus 💡 Skills • Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks, • Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles, • Experience with databases, APIs, and networking, • Knowledge of software testing methodologies and tools, • Familiarity with DevOps practices and tooling, • Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new technologies, • Clear, confident written and verbal communication ✅ What We Offer • Competitive salary: £70,000–£85,000 depending on experience, • Annual leave: 25 days, rising to 28 days over three years, • Fully remote, flexible working, • Pension scheme, • Professional development sponsorship and matched charity funding, • Private health and dental care after one year of employment

🚀 Engineering Leader | High-Growth Series A Scale-up Are you a full-stack pioneer ready to own a product from end-to-end? 🏛️💻 We are exclusively representing a mission-driven tech startup that has just secured a strong Series A funding round of over £10million. They are on a journey to transform how local governments and public agencies operate in the UK and USA — breaking down barriers and building the most intuitive procurement platform of the future. As the first dedicated engineering hire leading a team of 3, you won’t just be writing code; you will be the technical architect and leader shaping the entire roadmap of a high-impact, purpose-led organisation. The Role: Head of Engineering This is a "player-coach" evolution. You will drive great execution, manage the balance of scope and resources, and eventually build a high-performing engineering team from the ground up. Key Responsibilities: • End-to-End Ownership: Lead the technical roadmap, manage the codebase, and own the operation of data and apps in production., • AI-First Product Development: Build and ship AI-powered features used in production (not just prototypes). Comfortable going from idea → implementation → launch, with strong instincts on what to build and why., • Strategic Build Approach: Use a modern stack (React, marketplaces, payments) alongside low-code/no-code and AI tools where they accelerate delivery. Make pragmatic build vs buy decisions., • Team Building: Drive hiring, mentorship, and culture. You’ll manage internal growth while effectively collaborating with external contractors and freelancers., • Execution Excellence: Establish the "Quality Playbook"—setting standards for code reviews, testing, and monitoring. Who You Are: • Technical Polyglot: A rapid learner, fluent in React and complex marketplace infrastructure. You aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty in the code but are ready to delegate as you scale., • Systems Thinker: You think end-to-end about how architecture affects the user and the future of the service., • Entrepreneurial Spirit: You thrive in "startup hustle," acting with urgency and accountability. You care about being effective over being right., • Emotionally Mature Leader: An empathetic mentor who drives clarity in ambiguity and promotes a culture of high standards and transparency. Why This Opportunity? • Key Leadership Status: This is a cornerstone role with the freedom to shape the tech stack and strategy., • Series A Momentum: Join at a pivotal inflection point with the financial backing to scale rapidly., • Real-World Impact: Build technology that empowers local governments to reinvest in their communities., • Equity & Growth: Competitive package including meaningful equity in a venture-backed scale-up.

Lead Full-Stack Developer Location: Remote-first Type: Full-time Start: ASAP About Couch Heroes At Couch Heroes, we’re exploring new ground for the MMO genre. In a world where fantasy and ancient technology intertwine, players explore shattered realms, grapple across verticality, solve puzzles, and push back corruption, with progression driven by player expression and discovery. We envision bridging generations of gamers, creating a space where both coexist and journey together. We’re developing in Unreal Engine, in early production, with a team spanning multiple countries. We’re remote-first, based in the UK, and scaling to support a multi-year live-service roadmap. We value autonomy, curiosity, and collaborative ownership, and we’re looking for creators who want to help build something from the ground up. Sound like your kind of thing? We should talk. About the Job The web and platform layer of an MMO is what players interact with outside the game client: account systems, social features, community tools, content delivery, and the services that tie the live experience together. We need a Lead Full-Stack Developer who can own the architecture of these systems and build the engineering team that delivers them. You will report to the CTO and manage a growing team of web and platform engineers. You will make architectural decisions, stay hands-on with code, and represent the web engineering discipline across the studio in production planning and resourcing decisions. We are in early production. The studio has been running for three years, and core platform infrastructure is being built alongside the game itself. You will be making foundational choices about stack architecture, service boundaries, deployment pipelines, and data models that the team builds on for years to come. This is not a maintenance role. You are building systems from the ground up. Your Role People Leadership and Team Development • Manage a growing team of engineers as the team scales through production: set priorities, assign work, balance workload, and run regular 1:1s focused on progress, career development, and honest feedback., • Lead performance reviews and goal setting aligned to production milestones and individual development plans. Identify skill gaps and address them through coaching, stretch assignments, or training., • Represent the web engineering discipline in cross-discipline leads meetings, production planning, and resourcing conversations. Advocate for team needs and capacity., • Foster a team culture of code quality, shared ownership, and continuous improvement., • Support hiring as the team grows: contribute to job descriptions, review technical submissions, and participate in interview loops. Technical Leadership and Architecture • Architect and lead the development of backend microservices using TypeScript, Node.js, and Express, with MongoDB for persistent storage and Redis for caching, session management, and pub/sub messaging., • Design scalable, well-bounded services that support the throughput and reliability demands of a live-service MMO: player accounts, social systems, marketplace, mail, inventory, and platform integrations., • Own CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines, with Docker and Kubernetes on Azure for container orchestration and deployment. Establish deployment practices that support rapid iteration without compromising stability., • Make architectural decisions about service boundaries, data models, caching strategies, and API design that balance immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability., • Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices using Grafana and Uptime Kuma or equivalent observability tools. Frontend Engineering • Build polished, responsive, and accessible interfaces using TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with Redux for state management and Zod for schema validation., • Collaborate with UI/UX design to ensure clean design-to-implementation handoff and user-centric workflows across platform features., • Ensure frontend systems are built for internationalisation, accessibility, and performance from the start. Platform Integration • Work with gameplay engineering and online services to define how web platform systems integrate with the game client: authentication, account management, social features, content delivery, and analytics., • Collaborate with production to manage scope, schedules, and task breakdowns for web engineering work. Contribute to milestone planning, sprint scoping, and capacity forecasting. Must-Haves • Proven experience in software development, with at least one shipped product or live service., • Proven experience in a senior or lead role with hands-on team leadership experience: running 1:1s, setting goals, conducting reviews, and developing team members., • Strong backend experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and Express for API development., • Production experience with MongoDB and Redis in a services environment., • Strong frontend experience with React and Next.js., • Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline design., • Experience with Azure Cloud services or equivalent cloud platform., • Strong communication skills and a collaborative working style, with proven experience making architectural decisions in cross-functional teams. Nice-to-Haves • Experience building backend services for games, social platforms, or real-time multiplayer applications., • Experience with Redux, Zod, or equivalent state management and validation libraries., • Familiarity with real-time communication systems: WebSocket at scale, pub/sub architectures, or event-driven service design., • Experience with Grafana, Uptime Kuma, or equivalent observability and monitoring tools., • Experience with OAuth2/JWT authentication flows and identity management., • Experience with Golang or additional backend languages., • Contributions to open-source projects or technical writing that demonstrates systems thinking. About You • You lead by example. You are hands-on when needed and empowering always., • You build systems that last and take pride in readable, maintainable code., • You are comfortable translating product vision into technical decisions and explaining technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders., • You are comfortable working through ambiguity. Early production means not everything is defined yet, and you see that as an opportunity to shape the right architecture., • You balance engineering ideals with delivery pragmatism. You know when to build for the future and when to ship what works., • You work autonomously in a remote environment, proactively keeping your team aligned and your stakeholders informed., • We are committed to making our hiring process accessible. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know. Couch Heroes have partnered with Skillsearch on this hire. Jack is leading the search directly with the studio leadership, so feel free to reach out to him at . He will be your point of contact throughout. Looking forward to connecting! Equal Opportunities Couch Heroes is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity or expression, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Privacy and data We process your personal data as part of the recruitment process. Couch Heroes and Skillsearch both act as data controllers in relation to your application. For details on how your information is collected, used, stored, and your rights under UK GDPR, please review the relevant Privacy Policies below: Couch Heroes: ___ Skillsearch: ___

Stax is partnering with a venture-backed (Series A) AI company building advanced virtual agents designed to automate complex operational workflows for enterprise organisations. Following recent investment and strong early traction, the company is entering an exciting phase of growth and expanding its engineering team to support the next generation of its platform. Revenue increased by 400% in Q4 2025, and the company is targeting a further 4x increase in revenue as it continues to scale. The leadership team includes engineers and researchers from organisations such as Apple, Oxford University, and Cambridge University, bringing together deep technical expertise and world-class research backgrounds. Their platform enables organisations to deploy intelligent agents capable of learning, adapting, and executing real operational processes. At the heart of this vision is a platform that allows these agents to be trained, evaluated, and continuously improved as they interact with real-world workflows. The company is now hiring an AI Engineering Manager (Agentic) to lead the development of this core platform and help define the architecture behind the next generation of intelligent automation systems. This role will report directly to the CTO and lead a team focused on building and scaling the company’s agent platform. The Opportunity This is a senior technical leadership role focused on shaping the systems that enable intelligent agents to learn, evolve, and operate reliably in production environments. You will work closely with engineering and product leadership to define the technical direction of the platform while leading a team of experienced engineers responsible for building and scaling it. This is an opportunity to play a key role in defining the architecture behind a rapidly evolving AI platform and to help shape the future of intelligent automation. Technology Environment The platform sits at the intersection of AI systems, automation, and scalable platform engineering, typically involving technologies such as: • Large language model–driven systems, • AI-assisted automation and orchestration, • Intelligent workflow systems, • Data pipelines and evaluation frameworks, • Distributed platform architectures What We’re Looking For Core Experience • Strong experience building complex software platforms or distributed systems, • Experience working with AI-driven or automation-focused products, • Ability to define and deliver technical vision for a platform or product area, • Experience leading or mentoring senior engineering teams, • A strong systems-thinking and platform engineering mindset Additional Experience • Experience in high-growth technology environments, • Exposure to enterprise-scale software systems, • Familiarity with automation, workflow platforms, or AI evaluation approaches Why This Role Matters This platform sits at the centre of how the company’s technology evolves. Every system built and every workflow automated contributes to improving the intelligence and capability of the platform. Building the right architecture will enable the product to scale efficiently while continuously improving over time. This role offers the opportunity to shape that foundation and have a meaningful impact on the future direction of the technology. Apply If you're excited about shaping the architecture behind next-generation AI platforms and tackling complex technical challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Apply directly or reach out to Stax for a confidential conversation. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually. However, we will endeavour to contact candidates whose experience most closely aligns with the requirements of the role.

Location: UK (Remote) Reports to: Chief Technology Officer Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 per annum, plus benefits Contract: Full-time, permanent About MedLink MedLink Solutions is a UK-based healthtech company providing clinical management software to general practice. Our platform is currently used by approximately 300 GP practices and supports the care of over three million patients across the United Kingdom. The platform manages patient monitoring for long-term medications, scheduled health reviews for chronic conditions, automated clinical workflows, and integrations with the major UK clinical systems including EMIS, Vision, and SystmOne. We are a profitable, growing company with a clear product roadmap and a meaningful impact on patient care. The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our engineering team, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer. The successful candidate will play a significant role in shaping the product as we grow. The role offers substantial autonomy and responsibility. The successful candidate will be expected to take ownership of features and initiatives end-to-end, from initial scoping through to deployment and ongoing maintenance. This is not a position suited to engineers who require detailed specifications or extensive supervision; we are looking for a self-directed professional capable of identifying problems, proposing solutions, and delivering them to production. Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and ship new product features in close collaboration with the CTO., • Investigate, diagnose, and resolve production issues with a focus on rapid turnaround., • Identify opportunities for technical and operational improvement across the codebase, and implement them proactively., • Take ownership of features end-to-end, including production support and post-release iteration., • Provide technical support directly to client practices where required, including investigating reported issues, communicating clearly with non-technical users, and delivering timely fixes., • Contribute to architectural and engineering decisions across the platform., • Maintain high standards of code quality, testing, and written documentation. Required Experience and Skills Candidates must demonstrate the following: • A minimum of five years’ experience building and maintaining production web applications., • Strong proficiency in PHP, with substantial commercial experience using the Laravel framework., • Strong proficiency in JavaScript, with substantial commercial experience using Vue.js., • Solid working knowledge of MySQL, including schema design, query optimisation, and migration management., • Experience with Git and modern collaborative development practices., • A demonstrable track record of owning features end-to-end and being directly responsible for code in production., • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical users when investigating and resolving client-reported issues., • The ability to work effectively in an asynchronous, remote-first environment., • The right to work in the United Kingdom. We are not in a position to sponsor work visas at this time. Use of AI Development Tools The use of AI-assisted development tools, in particular Claude Code, is integral to how we build software at MedLink. We do not regard these tools as optional or supplementary; they are a core part of our engineering workflow. Candidates should have meaningful, hands-on experience using AI coding assistants as part of their day-to-day development practice and should be able to articulate how these tools have changed the way they design, write, and review code. Candidates who have not yet incorporated such tools into their workflow, or who regard them sceptically, are unlikely to be a good fit for this role. Desirable Experience The following are not strictly required, but candidates who can demonstrate them will be at an advantage: • Experience with Inertia.js / Bootstrap CSS., • Prior experience working in healthcare, NHS-adjacent, or other regulated industries., • Experience providing technical support to non-technical end users., • Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications., • Experience integrating with complex or imperfectly documented third-party APIs., • Familiarity with Laravel Horizon, Redis, and queue-based architectures. What We Offer • Fully remote working within the United Kingdom., • Direct involvement in product and technical decisions, with meaningful influence on how the platform evolves., • A small, focused team without unnecessary bureaucracy or process overhead., • Substantive, real-world impact on patient care across the UK., • Pension, holiday allowance Application Process To apply, please submit your CV together with a brief covering note (no more than a few paragraphs) addressing the following: 1. A piece of work you have shipped to production that you are particularly proud of, and your specific contribution to it., 2. How you currently use AI development tools in your work, and how this has changed your approach to building software. Applications should be sent to . Our interview process consists of an initial screening call, a technical exercise, a technical deep-dive discussion, and a final conversation focused on working style and team fit. References will be requested prior to any offer being made. We aim to complete the process within three weeks from initial contact.

At Valcon, we help organisations unlock the full value of data, AI and digital platforms by building scalable, automated cloud foundations. We are looking for a Senior Principal in Cloud Engineering to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud platforms that support modern data, AI and application workloads. This is a senior consulting leadership role responsible for shaping client cloud strategies, designing modern platform architectures and leading complex transformation programmes. You will work with executive stakeholders to modernise legacy infrastructure, establish platform engineering capabilities and enable organisations to deploy and scale digital products at speed. The role combines strategic architecture, transformation leadership and deep cloud engineering expertise, helping clients move from manual infrastructure operations to automated, resilient and scalable cloud platforms. Key Responsibilities Client Advisory & Capability Building • Act as a trusted advisor to CIO, CTO and platform leadership teams on cloud platform transformation., • Lead architecture workshops and strategic engagements with senior stakeholders., • Translate business ambitions for data, AI and digital innovation into scalable cloud architectures., • Establish Cloud Engineering Centres of Excellence (CoE) within client organisations., • Define operating models, engineering practices and reusable platform components., • Support pre-sales activities including proposals, client pitches and solution shaping, bringing technical leadership into the sales cycle., • Identify and develop opportunities within client accounts to expand cloud and platform engagements. Cloud Platform Strategy & Architecture • Lead large-scale cloud modernisation programmes, transforming legacy infrastructure into automated cloud-native platforms., • Define enterprise cloud platform strategies supporting Data, AI and digital product develop, • Design target-state architectures enabling scalable, secure and automated infrastructure across cloud environments., • Define policy-as-code frameworks and automated governance models ensuring security, compliance and cost optimisation., • Embed resilience, observability and disaster recovery into enterprise platform design, • Ensure cloud environments align with Well-Architected Framework principles., • Design modular infrastructure frameworks and reusable blueprints enabling consistent and scalable deployments., • Identify technical debt and operational bottlenecks and design modernised infrastructure architectures to support long-term scalability., • Enable development, data and AI teams to deploy platforms and workloads independently at scale., • Lead the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform engineering practices across client organisations. Internal Capability & Thought Leadership • Contribute to the development of Valcon’s Cloud and Platform Engineering capability, shaping propositions, standards and go-to-market offerings., • Mentor and support the development of engineering and architecture talent across the organisation., • Act as a leading voice within Valcon and externally, evangelising cloud as a business value driver through thought leadership, client engagement and industry presence. Skills & Experience • Strong consulting background with the ability to engage CIO/CTO-level stakeholders, lead architecture workshops and translate business strategy into scalable technology solutions., • Ability to translate strategic objectives into practical platform architectures., • Proven experience designing enterprise-scale cloud platforms that support data, AI and digital products., • Deep understanding of modern cloud architecture across AWS, Azure or Google Cloud., • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and automated platform provisioning using tools such as Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation, enabling scalable and repeatable deployments., • Experience establishing platform engineering capabilities, cloud landing zones and reusable infrastructure blueprints that enable engineering teams to deploy applications and data platforms at scale., • Strong track record of leading large-scale cloud modernisation and platform transformation programmes, working with senior stakeholders to move organisations from legacy infrastructure to automated cloud-native platforms., • Experience contributing to pre-sales activities, including proposals, solution shaping and client presentations., • Experience combining delivery leadership with business development, contributing to revenue growth and client development.

📍 Remote 💷 £400/day Outside IR35 ⏳ 3+ Month Contract Currently supporting a B2B healthcare SaaS company who are looking for a strong AI-focused .NET Engineer to support a major migration from Azure OpenAI “On Your Data” into a custom RAG orchestration layer. You’ll be working directly with the CTO on production AI systems used by thousands of end users, with a strong focus on performance, grounded responses and AI safety. Key experience: • C# / .NET Core, • Azure OpenAI, • Azure AI Search, • RAG pipelines, • Azure DevOps / CI/CD, • Production AI systems, • Cloud-native / microservices environments Interesting role for someone who enjoys solving real engineering problems around AI at production scale. If you're interested, please apply!

Description • Lead the technical side of sales: join early-stage conversations, present demos, and guide architecture and security discussions., • Act as hands-on engineering lead- shipping code, building integrations, and setting high quality standards, • Build and lead a high-performing technical team across engineering, integration, and pre-sales., • Drive customer integrations, from scoping to deployment of AI agents, and ensure production accuracy., • Gather customer feedback, localize the product, and represent regional needs to the global Product team., • 7–8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience., • Proven experience in pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical implementation., • Customer-facing background in roles such as Field CTO, Solutions Architect, or Deployed Engineer., • Demonstrated leadership experience (Director, VP, or Founder roles preferred)., • Strong communication skills in English (written and spoken)., • Ability to operate independently in a zero-to-one environment and build a team from scratch., • Bonus: Experience at fast-paced startup environments

Lead Gameplay Developer Location: Remote-first Type: Full-time Start: ASAP About Couch Heroes At Couch Heroes, we’re exploring new ground for the MMO genre. In a world where fantasy and ancient technology intertwine, players explore shattered realms, grapple across verticality, solve puzzles, and push back corruption, with progression driven by player expression and discovery. We envision bridging generations of gamers, creating a space where both coexist and journey together. We’re developing in Unreal Engine, in early production, with a team spanning multiple countries. We’re remote-first, based in the UK, and scaling to support a multi-year live-service roadmap. We value autonomy, curiosity, and collaborative ownership, and we’re looking for creators who want to help build something from the ground up. Sound like your kind of thing? We should talk. About the Job The systems that define how players interact with the world, each other, and the game’s core mechanics are built by gameplay engineers. We need a Lead Gameplay Developer who can own the technical implementation of our core gameplay systems and build the engineering team that delivers them. You will report to the CTO and manage a growing team of gameplay engineers. You will make technical design decisions, stay hands-on with implementation, and represent the gameplay engineering discipline across the studio in production planning, design reviews, and resourcing decisions. We are in early production. The studio has been running for three years, but core gameplay systems including combat, traversal, abilities, progression, and multiplayer interaction are still being architected and prototyped. You will be making foundational technical decisions that define how the game feels, scales, and evolves over years of live service. Your Role People Leadership and Team Development • Manage a growing team of gameplay engineers as the team scales through production: set priorities, assign work, balance workload, and run regular 1:1s focused on progress, career development, and honest feedback., • Lead performance reviews and goal setting aligned to production milestones and individual development plans. Identify skill gaps and address them through coaching, stretch assignments, or training., • Represent the gameplay engineering discipline in cross-discipline leads meetings, production planning, and resourcing conversations. Advocate for team needs and capacity., • Foster a team culture of technical rigour, clean code practices, and collaborative problem solving., • Support hiring as the team grows: contribute to job descriptions, design technical assessments, and participate in interview loops. Gameplay Systems and Implementation • Own the technical design and implementation of core gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, including combat, traversal, abilities, player interaction, and progression mechanics., • Architect gameplay systems for a persistent MMO context: server-authoritative logic, client prediction, ability replication, and state synchronisation across distributed server infrastructure., • Collaborate closely with game design and level design to translate design intent into robust, tuneable, and extensible gameplay code. Build systems that designers can iterate on without requiring engineering support for every change., • Stay hands-on with C++ and Blueprint implementation. Build, profile, and iterate alongside your engineers, establishing technical quality benchmarks and code architecture patterns., • Work with animation, VFX, and audio teams to integrate gameplay systems with presentation layers: ability visuals, hit feedback, audio cues, and UI responses. Technical Architecture and Performance • Define coding standards, architecture patterns, and review processes for gameplay code. Ensure the codebase remains maintainable and extensible as the team and feature set grow., • Profile and optimise gameplay systems for MMO-scale performance: tick budgets, replication bandwidth, ability processing in dense combat scenarios, and memory management., • Collaborate with online services and network engineering to ensure gameplay systems work reliably under real-world latency and server load conditions., • Work with production to manage scope, schedules, and task breakdowns for gameplay engineering work. Contribute to milestone planning, sprint scoping, and capacity forecasting., • Use playtesting observations and telemetry data to identify technical issues with gameplay feel, responsiveness, and fairness. Must-Haves • Proven experience in game development, with at least one shipped title in a gameplay engineering or gameplay lead role., • Proven experience of direct people management: running 1:1s, setting goals, conducting performance reviews, and developing team members., • Strong C++ proficiency with production experience in Unreal Engine, including Gameplay Ability System, replication, and Blueprint integration., • Experience building gameplay systems for multiplayer or online games, with a working understanding of server authority, client prediction, and state replication., • Demonstrated ability to translate game design concepts into well-architected, extensible, and performant code., • Strong communication and documentation skills, with proven experience collaborating across disciplines (design, art, animation, audio, network) to ship integrated gameplay features. Nice-to-Haves • Experience shipping at least one MMO or persistent online world from production through live service., • Experience with Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System (GAS) at scale, including custom ability tasks, gameplay effects, and attribute sets., • Familiarity with AI systems for NPC behaviour, encounter scripting, or enemy design., • Experience with data-driven design approaches where designers author gameplay content through configuration rather than code changes., • Exposure to anti-cheat considerations and exploit mitigation in competitive or economy-driven multiplayer games. About You • You lead by investing in people. You find genuine satisfaction in watching your team grow and you actively develop the engineers around you., • You care about how systems feel to the player, not just whether they function correctly. Frame data, input responsiveness, and gameplay feel matter to you., • You are comfortable working through ambiguity. Early production means not everything is defined yet, and you see that as an opportunity to shape the right technical approach., • You balance technical elegance with delivery pragmatism. You know when to architect for the future and when to prototype quickly to validate design., • You work autonomously in a remote environment, proactively keeping your team aligned and your stakeholders informed., • We are committed to making our hiring process accessible. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know. Couch Heroes have partnered with Skillsearch on this hire. Jack is leading the search directly with the studio leadership, so feel free to reach out to him at . He will be your point of contact throughout. Looking forward to connecting! Equal Opportunities Couch Heroes is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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The Opportunity We are an Imperial College London med tech spinout building AI-powered clinical decision-support tools certified as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). Our platform uses real-world EHR data to identify patients at risk of preventable harm — giving NHS clinicians time to act. We are a small, high-ownership team operating at the intersection of clinical AI and healthcare infrastructure. This is a foundational engineering hire with a clear path to Head of Engineering as we scale. The Role You will own and shape the technical core of a live clinical AI platform — working across backend services, ML infrastructure, and hospital data integrations. You will have a direct line to the CTO and CEO from day one, with real influence over architectural decisions on a system processing real patient data across NHS trusts. What You'll Do 🔹 Own and extend the backend and ML infrastructure of a production SaMD system 🔹 Design and implement integrations with hospital systems (EHR, HL7/FHIR), including partnerships with major healthcare data platforms 🔹 Build and maintain Python/Azure-based services — APIs, data pipelines, monitoring and audit frameworks 🔹 Write software that meets medical device quality standards, producing artefacts that support regulatory submissions 🔹 Collaborate with clinical, data science, and regulatory stakeholders 🔹 Help define engineering culture and processes as the team grows around you What We're Looking For ✅ 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong Python background ✅ Proven experience building and operating production services on Azure or AWS ✅ Comfort with data-heavy systems — pipelines, databases, REST APIs — and a taste for clean architecture ✅ Strong written communication; able to document work to regulatory audit standard Nice to Have ⭐ Experience in a regulated software environment (medical devices, fintech, defence, or similar) ⭐ Familiarity with FHIR/HL7 or clinical EHR systems ⭐ Exposure to ML model deployment or monitoring in production Tech Stack Python · Azure · Terraform · Docker · ML Pipelines · FHIR / HL7 · GitHub Actions What's on Offer 💰 Competitive renumeration package, depending on experience 🏖️ 25 days annual leave + bank holidays 🏥 Access to clinical and academic networks 🔀 Flexible hybrid working, London base Growth Path As we move through our next funding round and scale clinical deployments, the expectation is that you grow into Head of Engineering or equivalent — owning technical strategy, building a team, and sitting at the table for product, regulatory, and commercial decisions.

Product Owner - Operational Resilience 2-3 days p/week in Sheffield 6-month rolling contract Inside IR35 We're seeking a Product Owner to lead Operational Resilience, Innovation, and Scenario Testing workstreams within a large enterprise environment. You will be responsible for prioritising and managing the backlog and roadmap to ensure delivery aligns with operational resilience requirements. Key Responsibilities: Own and prioritise backlog across resilience workstreams Lead delivery of scenario testing and proactive resilience initiatives Align activity to business services, impact tolerances, and risk appetite Engage senior stakeholders across CTO, Risk, and Resilience Drive governance, reporting, and delivery assurance Requirements: Product Owner experience within a large bank (essential) Strong knowledge of Operational Resilience and scenario testing Experience working in regulatory-driven environments Agile delivery experience and strong stakeholder managementECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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