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Lead Software Engineer
£100,000 - 100,000
Your Prime Recruitment Ltd
Wilmslow Road, Manchester
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong hands-on software engineering background
- Experience building and shipping real products in startup, scale-up, or high-ownership environments
- Experience working on customer-facing applications, ideally with exposure to mobile or app-led products
- Practical experience using AI in production, including LLMs, prompt engineering, AI-assisted workflows, or agent-based functionality
- Comfortable working across product, engineering, and technical problem-solving
- Strong builder mindset with a focus on getting products live, improving them, and solving meaningful user problems
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, founder-led environment
- Nice to have: experience with consumer products, engagement-led products, or behaviour-driven applications
- Nice to have: exposure to open banking, fintech, or data-led products
- Nice to have: experience as an early technical hire or in a Founding Engineer or first product engineer role
- Nice to have: interest in helping shape technical direction as the business grows
Responsibilities
- Take a hands-on role in the evolution of our core product and mobile experience
- Build and ship features using modern AI tooling, including LLMs, prompt engineering, and agent-based workflows
- Improve and shape the user experience through better product thinking, architecture, and delivery
- Work closely with the founders to turn product ideas into scalable, high-quality software
- Identify where AI can genuinely improve customer outcomes
- Make practical decisions around architecture, integrations, tooling, and technical direction
- Help establish the foundations for our future engineering roadmap and team
Description
We are an early-stage, mission-led software business with a live platform and strong market relevance. We are rebuilding and improving our product for the AI era, with a focus on user experience, intelligent workflows, and mobile-first product thinking. This is a founding-level opportunity with genuine ownership, direct access to our founders and product direction, and the chance to help shape an AI-native product in a meaningful way. The role is based in Manchester on a hybrid working basis, and includes an equity opportunity as part of the package.
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