Lead Software Engineer, Protex AI
Enterprise Applications
AI-powered health & safety technology
Open for applications
AI-powered health & safety technology
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help enterprise EHS teams revolutionise how they make proactive safety decisions that help contribute to a safer work environment.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Python, JavaScript, and SQL
- Frontend experience with React or Vue.js
- Familiarity with Cloud services and serverless architecture (e.g., AWS Lambda, IoT Core)
- An understanding of computer vision and network technologies is an advantage
- Proven background on leading with software metrics and value first mindset
- An innate resonance to make an impact in an autonomous yet supportive environment
- Experience working in a scale up a distinct advantage. Or from a multinational where you clearly showed influence in moving forward a software strategy
- Product mindset: you enjoy talking to users, understanding their workflows, and shipping pragmatic solutions
- Experience leading people is an advantage
- Self-direction: ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and execute independently
- Strong communication skills to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams (including customers)
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer to pioneer the development and evolution of our internal applications with software excellence and AI that are critical to teams across Engineering, Support, Implementation, and Customer Success
- These applications help us reduce time-to-install and bring sites and cameras online more efficiently, directly impacting our operational efficiency and expansion velocity of our AI solutions globally
- You'll own the roadmap for these internal applications by treating them as products and collaborating across teams to identify and build what's needed next
- You will have autonomy, executive support and will directly see the impact of your efforts on a continuous basis. You will bring an ability to influence, have an AI first mindset and a focus for collaboration, impact and metrics
- Lead the design, build, and operation of internal applications used daily across the company to enable implementation support and QA through software
- Innovate on how LLM’s and broader AI technologies can enhance these internal applications
- Collaborate with our platform team on deployment tools and our computer vision team to integrate CV features into operational workflows
- Design and implement APIs that connect our various systems, creating a seamless experience for internal users and customers
- Partner with our technical operations and engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and build solutions that enable self-service and reduce ticket volume
- Gather feedback from users across teams, prioritise features, and ship iterative improvements
- Influence across the organisation on how software and AI can further enhance technical operations can enable scale
- Over time, own the strategic software enablement strategy for technical operations at Protex AI
- At Protex AI, you'll work on meaningful problems with real-world impact
- You’ll have ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to shape tools that directly improve how our teams work
Our take
Health and safety in industrial, factory and warehouse environments has long been bemoaned for how it slows work processes down, and for how imperfect it is. It often takes accidents to happen (or be narrowly missed) for interventions to take place, and as a result, thousands of people a year are still killed in workplace accidents in the US alone.
Protex AI is out to make workplaces safer by turning CCTV cameras into AI-powered safety auditors. Its software plugs into an existing CCTV system and maps the actions of people, vehicles and other equipment. The system can automatically capture and report on risks – ultimately allowing H&S teams to make more data-informed decisions.
Since being founded in 2021, Protex AI’s forward thinking approach has seen it expand into locations across Ireland, the UK and the US, winning major customers such as Marks & Spencer and P&G. With significant funding at its back, the company continues to scale to bring AI-powered safety to more workplaces.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2025
$36m
SERIES B
Aug 2022
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $54.2m
Company benefits
- Company Laptop (Choice of Mac or Windows)
- Participation in Employee Share Option Programme
- Monthly Company Events
- Pension Scheme
- Health Insurance & Wellbeing Allowance
- Truly Unlimited Holidays
- Nomad Working for 20 Days
- Remote and Hybrid working opportunities
Company HQ
Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Dan Hobbs
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded online exam management platform BetterExaminations in 2015, serving as CEO for six years until TERMINALFOUR acquired the startup.
Ciarán O'Mara
(Co-Founder & CTO)Has a PhD in Computer Vision Privacy. Previously worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Emdalo Technologies and a Software Developer at Cashbook.
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