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Senior AI-First Engineer
Posted 1 day 6 hours ago by HeadHR
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Lancashire, Manchester, United Kingdom, M21 0
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior AI-first Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with a genuine, hands on approach to AI-assisted development. You will work across varied client engagements - from modernizing legacy systems to architecting new products - and are expected to contribute at a high level regardless of project context. The ideal candidate has built a real, personalized AI development workflow - including custom skills, reusable prompt templates, and project level instructions - and continues to refine it. Out-of-the-box tool usage is not sufficient for this role.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack features with high standards of quality, performance, and reliability
- Apply AI tools throughout the workflow: generation, refactoring, review, testing, and research
- Contribute to architectural decisions - technology selection, system design, and trade off analysis
- Conduct thorough code reviews and uphold engineering best practices across the team
- Identify risks, bottlenecks, and security concerns proactively and propose solutions
- Work directly with clients in English.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through day to day guidance and knowledge sharing
- Stay current with AI tooling developments and contribute findings to the broader team
- Hands on experience with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent AI coding assistants
- Ability to create custom skills and sub agents and orchestrate multiple AI agents in parallel for concurrent task execution
- Strong prompt engineering skills; able to produce reliable, high quality output and critically evaluate AI generated results
- Production grade .NET / C# (REST APIs, middleware, dependency injection) with solid understanding of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JWT
- Deep proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript
- 2+ years of hands on production experience with React
- Strong grasp of state management, asynchronous patterns, and frontend testing
- Confident designing systems across monoliths, microservices, and distributed architectures
- Working knowledge of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and event driven systems, including message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or similar)
- Hands on use of Docker and working knowledge of Kubernetes, along with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Experience with cloud platforms
- Solid background with SQL databases and ORMs; familiarity with NoSQL is a plus
- Additional exposure to Python, Java, or Node.js is highly desirable
- Clear communication skills in English
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