Senior Software Engineer
hace 16 horas
Liverpool
Location: Remote UK (working from home) Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per annum, DOE + benefits Please note that only applicants who submit a cover letter with their application will be considered for this role About Artifax Artifax Software builds industry-leading venue and event management tools for the arts and culture sector. Our platform is used by performing arts centres, museums, festivals, universities, and cultural organisations around the world. We’re a remote-first, values-led team backed by the stability of Volaris Group, with a culture that’s collaborative, supportive, and always evolving through feedback. About the role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can take ownership of complex, production systems while applying AI in a disciplined, engineering-led way. You will work across two equally important areas: • Designing and delivering AI-enabled features and workflows that create real product and commercial value, • Incrementally modernising a complex PHP-based enterprise platform to keep it robust, scalable, and future-ready This is a senior, hands-on role with real technical ownership. Success requires strong engineering judgement, the ability to operate in complex systems, and the confidence to own architectural decisions end-to-end. Working closely with the Product Owner and Head of Engineering, you will make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance innovation, delivery speed, security, and long-term maintainability. AI is central to how we build. We seek engineers who create robust software features by embracing AI-first engineering practices and who are capable of integrating AI responsibly and effectively within customer-facing features and internal workflows. What you’ll do • Design and deliver clean, secure, maintainable, and performant end-to-end solutions using AI-accelerated coding across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, • Support the uplift of architectural components, backend systems, and enterprise-grade functionality, • Use AI tools for code generation, code review assistance, test automation, design translation, and rapid prototyping, • Contribute to evolving AI-enabled development processes and patterns across the business, • Lead development of new product add-ons with clear commercial value, • Assist in improving system performance, reliability, and scalability, • Design AI/LLM-powered workflows with strong guardrails for security and reliability, • Build REST APIs and modular services, including scalable inference-backed services where appropriate, • Package and deploy applications using Docker/Kubernetes, • Support AWS-based deployments with a focus on reliability and scalability, • Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines and automation, • Work closely with product, leadership, and customer-facing teams, • Contribute to shared patterns, documentation, and continuous improvement What you’ll bring • 7+ years building and maintaining production software on cloud-native platforms, • Strong backend engineering experience with server-side frameworks like Laravel/CodeIgniter (PHP 8.2+), alongside experience in related technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, JavaScript, • Deep understanding of relational databases, • Experience working with complex business logic and legacy systems, • Hands-on experience using AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) for Software Development and agentic development workflows., • Experience integrating AI or LLM-based capabilities into applications or workflows, • Solid grounding in software architecture, system design, containerisation and cloud platforms (AWS), • Confidence working with legacy systems while driving pragmatic improvement, • Clear communication skills and a strong sense of technical ownership Nice to have • Experience with microservices, security best practices, or SaaS products, • Familiarity with LLMs, RAG pipelines, or vector search, • Background in creative technology or the arts & culture sector, • Familiarity with agile development methodologies, Git-based workflows and iterative release cycles Why join Artifax? • Shape products used by cultural organisations worldwide, • Work on meaningful, technically challenging problems with real ownership, • Be part of a collaborative, remote-first engineering culture, • Explore responsible, real-world applications of AI, • Enjoy stability, autonomy, and opportunities to influence long-term technical direction Application Requirement Please include a short cover letter (max 300–400 words) including details of: • A production system you’ve owned end-to-end, • Your experience working on the modernisation of legacy systems or complex business logic., • An example of how you’ve used AI tools in the Software Development lifecycle or AI/LLM in a real product/workflows, • Why you feel this role is a good fit for your experience Applications without an accompanying cover letter will not be considered. Important • This is a UK-based role, • Applicants must be resident in the UK and have the right to work in this country, • Artifax is not able to offer visa sponsorship If you’re excited by thoughtful engineering, practical AI, and building products that support arts and culture, we’d love to hear from you.