Senior Software Engineer, Focused Labs UK Ltd
£70-104.5k
3+ days a week in office (Chancery Lane, London)
AI agents consultancy
Open for applications
AI agents consultancy
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£70-104.5k
3+ days a week in office (Chancery Lane, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help complex organisations modernize systems, ship reliably, and level-up their engineering.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments
- You believe that code quality matters, and that TDD and pairing help build better systems and stronger teams
- You’ve worked across multiple languages or frameworks (e.g., Python, Node, Java, React, Next.js) and are pragmatic about tool selection
- You’re excited about what’s happening in the AI space but stay focused on delivering value
- You have experience navigating complex organizations, building bridges across functions, and helping teams adopt modern development practices
- You’re as comfortable in the code as you are in a client meeting and can translate technical risks and wins into language anyone can understand
- You love to share what you’re learning and make the team around you better
- You’ve worked with LangChain (or similar agentic frameworks), and understand how to architect AI-native systems responsibly and effectively
What the job involves
- Writing lots of code
- Lead teams through end-to-end delivery across the stack, from backend services to modern web UIs
- Pair program daily with teammates and clients to share knowledge, improve code quality, and grow together
- Practice TDD and continuous refactoring to ensure code is reliable, maintainable, and understandable
- Guide architecture decisions to support scalability, observability, and performance
- Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to continuously deliver valuable software
- Coach developers on the team through pairing, mentoring, and modeling healthy engineering culture
- Influence technical direction beyond the team, working across client orgs and Focused’s internal practices to share lessons, shape approaches, and raise the collective bar
- Stay curious through experimenting with new patterns in the GenAI space, share what works (and what doesn’t), and help evolve how we build AI-powered software
Application process
- Apply with your CV
- Video call with a member of the People Team
- Pair programming interview
- Final interview and offer
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In the cookie-cutter world of AI agents, Focused is a consultancy firm that builds custom AI tools for its clients. It helps companies save time and manpower by building AI agents tailored to their unique needs, all easily integrated into the client's existing tech stack and never replacing what already works.
Focused’s secret sauce is its Eval-driven development. It evaluates and monitors its LLM agents so that its boutique products are focused solely on the tasks they were built for. It’s this agility that helps the company stand out, its consultancy-first approach meaning that each use case is specific.
Partnered with Google AI, Honeycomb.io and Groq, Focused has the backing of powerhouses in the LLM space. With scaling, its custom approach may prove a refreshing alternative to the identikit competitors on the market.
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Company values
- Love your craft - We believe in becoming the best at what we do, which means finding the best answers to the hardest problems—not the expected ones.
- Listen first - Every decision we make is informed by deep listening. We hear every perspective, and we keep listening to find the right solution.
- Learn why - We keep digging, keep asking questions, and learn new skills continuously to make ourselves and our team better.
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Austin Vance
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also a Member of the Board of Directors at Brightloom, GetSwift, YO and the Entrepreneurs' Organisation.
Luke Mueller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Also a Member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization and the Kermit Collective. Previously Associate Director at Pivotal Software and was a Software Engineer at Rally Software.
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