Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Funding Circle
£90-110k
2-5 days a week in office (Queen Victoria Street, London)
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
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Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£90-110k
2-5 days a week in office (Queen Victoria Street, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the place where small businesses go to get the funding they need to win
Role
Who you are
- While some professional experience in the AI/ML space is a requirement, this role is perfectly suited for a senior product or full-stack engineer who is excited to jump fully into the AI/ML product space and build applications on the cutting edge of these new technologies
- We are looking for a strong Senior Full Stack Engineer with a passion for product and a curiosity for AI
- Application Development: Proven expertise in building, testing, and deploying modern full-stack web applications. Strong skills in front-end frameworks (e.g. React), application back-ends (e.g, python, serverless/containerised applications, APIs), and database storage
- Product Ownership: A product-focused mindset with experience in taking applications from concept to production. Comfortable with full lifecycle ownership, including maintenance and on-call responsibilities
- Cloud and Infrastructure: Experience with cloud platforms and familiarity with infrastructure concepts (e.g. CI/CD, containerisation, serverless) needed to build scalable and reliable applications
- Collaboration and Communication: Excellent ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team, managing stakeholders and clearly translating complex technical ideas and user feedback into product features
- Problem-solving and Initiative: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Excited by the ambiguity of a new, experimental team and able to take ownership to drive initiatives forward
- AI/ML Interest: A strong interest in and hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies, such as LLM-based applications, RAG, or agent frameworks. The role will require learning and developing this area of knowledge
- Event-Driven Systems (Bonus): Knowledge of event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka) is a plus. Willingness to learn is a requirement
- Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- You will be joining our AI and Machine Learning team, which for the past two years has been at the forefront of leveraging AI to transform our business. Our team is composed of talented platform engineers, data scientists and a Product Manager and we are now looking for a Senior AI Engineer to build the applications that our internal and external users will interact with
- This is a strategic, hands-on role created to embed critical full-stack engineering skills directly within our AI/ML experts. Your mission is to bridge the gap between our AI systems and user-facing applications
- By adding your expertise, you will help make our team a more self-sufficient unit, capable of moving from concept to production with greater speed and efficiency. You will spearhead the development of flagship GenAI products, across multiple business areas and will own the full product lifecycle, from design and development to production support and maintenance
- Design, build, and maintain modern, full-stack web applications, including front-end development, serverless or containerised back-ends, APIs, and database storage. Employ technologies specifically suited to GenAI applications (MCP, Knowledge Bases, Agent to Agent communication, Agent Catalogues, LLM output monitoring and evaluation systems etc.)
- Take ownership of and accelerate the development of flagship GenAI products, like our internal "Customer Profile," to reduce time-to-value and iterate rapidly based on user feedback
- Collaborate directly with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, product engineers and product managers in a rapid experimentation and prototyping environment
- Embrace and drive a culture of full lifecycle ownership, taking responsibility for your applications' design, development, ongoing production support, maintenance, and on-call duties
- Help evolve our cross-functional operating model, establishing robust, repeatable processes and best practices for building end-to-end AI applications
- Set standards and best practices for the implementation and development of production GenAI applications and share knowledge with the rest of our engineering organisation
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to building an outcome driven innovation culture within Funding Circle
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.
This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.
The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. In 2020, however, trading in the group’s core UK market was helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020. Funding Circle continues to be a leading SME financing platform, exemplified by its partnership with Bayview Asset Management, with whom it has surpassed £1 billion in funding for its Term Lending product.
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Meet the team
Alice, Collections Executive
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Company
Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2017
$107.3m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $379.8m
Company benefits
- Annual learning budget
- Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- 5% Matched Pension
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Access to Wellhub (discounted gym access)
- Dental Insurance
- Just Eat for Business allowance when in the office
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
Company values
- Think smart
- Obsess over the customer
- Make it happen
- Be open
- Stand together
- Live the adventure
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lisa Jacobs
(CEO)Lisa is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Funding Circle
Victoria Bradford-Hall (VP, People)
- At Funding Circle, we are on a mission to back small businesses like no other company has ever done before. To succeed, we need a team that reflects the diverse world of the customers we support. We are building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. We know our success is rooted in a culture where every Circler - regardless of background, identity, or experience - has the confidence to bring their whole self to work. In our fast-moving environment, we don't just "accept" diversity; we actively seek it out to help us spot opportunities and find a better way. We measure our success not just by what we achieve individually, but by the impact we have on others. Even if your past experience does not align perfectly with every requirement, we would still love to hear from you.
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