AI Software Engineer, Sona
Elixir, Large Language Models
£90-120k
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People Operating System for Frontline Teams
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People Operating System for Frontline Teams
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£90-120k
+ Share options
101-200 employees
Company mission
Solve the unique challenges of frontline work with technology that empowers every employee.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about the speed at which Elixir and LLMs can turn ideas into reality, thrive on quickly finding a way to solve a customer’s problems and demonstrate the value of your solution, and are eager to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI, this role is for you
- We don’t have strict requirements, but hopefully lots of the following apply to you:
- You have strong professional experience in both Elixir and working with the latest LLMs
- You have a focus on “getting it shipped” and doing so quickly. When given the choice between “complicated and shiny” vs “get something simple but powerful in front of a user”, you always choose the latter
- You’re bullish on what the next 12 months holds for building AI agents and how much change is going to be driven by AI in 2025
- You’re comfortable working directly with c-level internal and stakeholders and excel at translating between real world problems and technical solutions for a non-technical audience
- You can point at multiple examples - whether you published them or not - of things you've hacked together in Elixir which use LLM's and you've got a list 10 times that long of things you'd like to do if only you had the time
- You’re excited about spending substantial amounts of time every month brain-storming and iterating in our London office, working remotely the rest of the time
What the job involves
- This role is our first engineering role dedicated exclusively to building agentic AI features for Sona
- You will be immersed in real-world customer problems and work directly with our CEO, CTO, and Director of AI to rapidly develop and implement cutting-edge LLM-powered prototypes
- Our stack is built primarily around Elixir, with a Phoenix LiveView web frontend (PETAL stack) and a GraphQL API for communicating with our React Native mobile app
- You’ll join a small pod of software and ML engineers whose mission is to ensure our product is differentiated from our competitors and stays ahead in the race to bring all of the advantages of AI to frontline workforce management
- Collaborate closely with our CEO, Product, Commercial, and Customer teams to identify AI-driven solutions and product opportunities
- Rapidly prototype LLM-based solutions that address real-world challenges in workforce management
- Showcase the potential of your prototypes to both internal and external stakeholders
- Iterate on your prototypes based on feedback, and develop them into market-ready products
Salary benchmarks
Our take
80% of people don’t work at desks, but the technology for deskless workers only attracts 1% of all enterprise software investment. Consequently, little software has been designed to benefit the frontline. Sona is a workforce technology startup setting out to help solve this issue, building an all-in-one platform specially designed to empower frontline workers and help their employers retain staff and operate more efficiently.
By using its app, users can view and claim shifts, communicate with their colleagues, and book holidays. Moreover, Sona has additional modules for HR, Payroll, and Engagement, so customers can manage all of their people operations in one place, or integrate with their existing tools.
Sona is an early-stage startup, yet already counts big names across Social Care, Hospitality, and the Charities sector who have combined to book millions of shifts on the Sona platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Sona strikes a good balance between giving me the trust and autonomy to do my best work, while being on hand to support and unblock me where..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$27.5m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$7m
SEED
Total funding: $36.7m
Company benefits
- 4.5 day standard working week
- Share options
- Remote first and flexible working
- 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
- Pension contributions matched up to 5%
- Enhanced parental leave & pay - 26 weeks full pay primary parent / 8 weeks full pay secondary parent
- Co-working space stipend (if you don't live in London)
- Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats
- The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office
- Professional development budget
- Unlimited free books
- Comprehensive health insurance via Bupa
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Ben Dixon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Associate - Consulting at PWC and Software Engineer at Thorlabs. Also, Co-Founder & CTO at Catapult Ventures Limited for 6 years.
Oli Johnson
(Co-founder)Previously Associate at NEO Capital and Investment Manager at Baugur Group. Co-Founder at Catapult for 6 years.
Steffen Wulff Petersen
(Co-founder)Previously Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs for 2 years. Since then has been Co-Founder & Managing Director at Lazada Group and Co-Founder at Catapult.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sona
- Fully remote work and total control over your schedule means you can excel at Sona no matter where, when, or how you like to work. We also offer extended parental leave to everyone.
- We're partnered with the Women in Tech Forum, a membership platform dedicated to supporting and accelerating the careers of women. Optional memberships are available to all women and allies at Sona to access their wide range of events, masterclasses, articles, and more.
- Salary transparency across all of our job postings means your offer is based on your experience and interview performance, not your previous salary or your negotiating skills.
- We use structured interview processes and assessment criteria to remove as much bias from our process as possible
- We do all of our collaborative work in public channels, which means everyone gets a say and the recognition they deserve, and nobody's out of the loop.
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