# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Faculty
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Lead Software Engineer at Faculty, you'll spearhead the technical direction and delivery of complex, innovative AI projects. You will act as a technical expert, applying your skills across various projects from AI strategy to client-side deployments, while ensuring architectural decisions are sound and reliable.

This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership, focusing on driving innovation, fostering team growth, and building reusable solutions across the organisation. If you're ready to manage high-risk projects and deliver practical, innovative outcomes, this is your chance to shape our future.

Responsibilities:

- Act as the primary technical authority for enterprise clients, guiding projects from discovery to production deployment.

- Lead and mentor a squad of engineers, empowering them to deliver their best work.

- Implement scalable and future-proof front and backend engineering patterns and practices.

- Translate complex customer needs and implementation challenges into actionable feedback to shape the next phase of a project.

- Distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from client-side engineers to senior business stakeholders.

Requirements:

- Proven ability to distill complex technical concepts for a wide range of audiences.

- Strong, hands-on experience in full-stack development, with a deep understanding of system architecture and design.

- Expertise in Python and TypeScript/React.

- Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab), Docker, and deploying applications on Kubernetes.

- Demonstrated history of championing automated testing strategies to ensure robust and reliable code.

- Genuine passion for working with customers, understanding their problems, and delivering solutions that provide immediate value.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- TypeScript
- React
- CI/CD pipelines
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- automated testing

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