Staff Software Engineer (£130k–£150k + Equity) at Alexa-founder's neurosymbolic AI startup

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Job Title

Staff Software Engineer

Salary

£130k–£150k + Equity

Company Description

Neurosymbolic AI startup founded by the creator of Amazon Alexa's core technology, building reliable and explainable generative AI for tier-1 financial institutions.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the transition from bespoke enterprise deployments to a scalable public API platform. You will bridge the gap between LLMs and symbolic computing, architecting foundational systems that enable AI to reason with deterministic accuracy. This is a high-impact IC role shaping the technical trajectory of a mission-critical AI platform.

Location

London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Work at the bleeding edge of AI by combining symbolic reasoning (decision trees and knowledge graphs) with LLMs to solve the hallucination problem for enterprise clients.
• Join a high-pedigree team founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe, whose previous company Evi was acquired by Amazon to become the foundational technology for Alexa.
• Play a pivotal role in a company with proven product-market fit at tier-1 banks and accountancy firms as they scale their technology into a global developer platform.

• Architect and implement the foundational public API platform, including critical decisions on authentication, versioning, and multi-tenant scalability.
• Design and optimize document ingestion pipelines that process complex regulatory data across multiple jurisdictions and formats like PDF and Word.
• Lead cross-cutting technical initiatives within a Python monorepo to improve engineering velocity, reliability, and observability across the entire organization.

• Possesses deep expertise in Python with a focus on writing well-typed, production-grade code and managing complex project structures at scale.
• Demonstrates a proven track record of making foundational architectural decisions and designing complex algorithms for high-availability systems.
• Has significant experience with AWS infrastructure (S3, EKS, Terraform) and a passion for establishing rigorous engineering standards and mentor cultures.

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