Lead Software Engineer, Faculty
2+ days a week in office (Old Street, London)
Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
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Enabling clients to use cutting edge AI to improve the performance of their business
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office (Old Street, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help organisations across the public and private sectors use AI to understand more deeply, make better decisions and act faster.
Role
Who you are
- Exceptional Communication: You have a proven ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from client-side engineers to senior business stakeholders. This is crucial for success
- Pragmatic Leadership: Experience leading complex technical projects and mentoring other engineers, empowering them to do their best work
- Customer-Centric Mindset: A genuine passion for working with customers, understanding their problems, and delivering solutions that provide immediate value
- Full-Stack Proficiency: Strong, hands-on experience in full-stack development, with a deep understanding of system architecture and design
- Core Technologies: Expertise in Python and TypeScript/React
- Infrastructure & Deployment: Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab), Docker, and deploying applications on Kubernetes
- Testing & Quality: A demonstrated history of championing automated testing strategies to ensure robust and reliable code
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience in a client-facing role
What the job involves
- As a Lead Software Engineer in our Customer Development team, you won't just build software - you'll lead the charge in deploying, customising, and scaling our groundbreaking Frontier platform directly with our enterprise clients
- As we continue to expand our platform's reach, you'll have the unique opportunity to build a scalable AI focussed product, remain close to live customer feedback whilst leading the way in technical best practices
- In this role, you'll be immersed leading the deployment of Frontier in complex environments, tackling complex real-world challenges using state-of-the-art technology
- From optimising multinational supply chain logistics to reducing time-to-market for clinical trials and supporting sustainability goals in various industries, Frontier empowers organisations to make informed decisions through AI-driven insights
- At the heart of Decision Intelligence for each customer lies one or more Computational Twins (CT). A CT is a digital representation of an existing business process in which decisions are made. Our platform enables a CT to show historical process performance, model future behaviour and simulate decisions.
- As a Lead Software Engineer in the Customer Development team, you’ll lead the technical delivery of customer-facing projects, guiding a small, cross-functional team
- You’ll collaborate directly with customers and their engineering teams to understand their systems and data, and help integrate Frontier into their workflows
- This often includes extending or adapting our frontend, backend, and infrastructure-as-code components, as well as supporting the creation of Computational Twins that model complex real-world systems
- You’ll play a hands-on role in shaping how Frontier is deployed and scaled in production environments, ensuring it delivers real impact from day one
- Lead Client Engagements: Act as the primary technical authority and partner for our enterprise clients, guiding them from discovery through to successful production deployment
- Mentor Your Squad: Lead and mentor a dedicated, cross-functional squad of engineers, fostering their growth and setting the standard for technical excellence and creative problem-solving
- Architect & Build Solutions: Roll up your sleeves to design, build, and extend components of the Frontier platform (Python, TypeScript, IaC) to meet specific customer challenges and workflows
- Bridge Product and Delivery: Be the crucial link between our customers and our core product teams. Translate customer needs and implementation challenges into actionable feedback and feature requests that shape the future of Frontier
Application process
- Introduction video call with the talent partner (30 minutes)
- Pair Programming interview (90 minutes)
- System Design interview (90 minutes)
- Leadership and Principles interview (60 minutes)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Faculty work with companies such as Samsung, the BBC, and Just Eat to determine how they can utilise AI, and then assist them in implementing the necessary skills, strategy, and software.
The team has developed a platform with a large cloud computing space for accessing vast amounts of data for use in designing and testing AI models. Frontier, its Design Intelligence platform, develops digital twins for its customers, which give them more insight into useful applications for AI. Applied AI is Faculty's consulting division, working with clients to build and deploy tailored AI solutions.
Faculty has worked with clients in a range of different industries across the public and private sectors, including healthcare, retail, government and energy.
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"People here get a lot of trust to figure things out. They also get the chance to earn a lot of responsibility at a relatively early stage in their..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$40.5m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $53m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
- Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success
- Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions
- Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
- Lunch weekly, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees)
- We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime
Company values
- Grow the Best Team - Only hire people you’re convinced will make Faculty better. Take others’ development as seriously as your own. Build strong and collaborative teams
- Do Great Work - Master your craft. Take pride in your work, even when no one is watching. Demand the highest standards from yourself and others. Work hard, but do it sustainably
- Be Humble & Kind - Recognise that you’re always learning, and have something to learn from everyone. Always make the decision that is best for faculty, but treat people kindly as you do it
- Act with Integrity - Have the courage to maintain integrity even when it’s costly to do so. Demand this from others without hesitation
- Seek Truth - Seek the truth over winning the argument. Understand the root cause. Create an atmosphere in which the best idea succeeds, regardless of who or where it comes from.
- Maximise Impact - Care about the impact of your work. Find the thing that is most important to your customer. Design the best solution, not just what’s easiest or fashionable. Get it done fast. Make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
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Leadership
Marc Warner
(CEO)Previously a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing.
Andrew Brookes
(CTO)Previously a CTO at Hillgate and Vice President at BlackRock.
Angie Ma
(Co-Founder)Previously a Scientific Consultant at Bio Nano Consulting.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faculty
Angie Ma (Co-Founder)
- AI changes everything, and so must we to make sure our people reflect the real diversity of society. We believe that recruiting talent with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds encourages people to think differently and be more creative
- We welcome difference whether it’s ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability so please be yourself!
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