Senior Staff Engineer - Agent Platform

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Remote
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£129,500 / year
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
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SKILLS

AWS Lambda API Gateway Step Functions Python LangGraph LangChain Event-driven architecture Backend distributed systems

FULL DESCRIPTION

Senior Staff Engineer - Agent Platform

Company: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

Location: United Kingdom (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: Base Salary £129.5K plus equity

Overview

We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] has built the first AI-native transaction infrastructure for electricity. We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to help shape and scale our Agentic layer.

Responsibilities

  • Ship flagship agentic capabilities end-to-end.
  • Build and operate production-grade agent systems with reliable, predictable behavior.
  • Create shared foundations for agent delivery (runtime patterns, tool interfaces, context management).
  • Establish a pragmatic Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC) with evaluations, guardrails, tracing, monitoring.
  • Integrate ML and LLM components into production workflows.
  • Maintain clear domain boundaries as adoption scales.
  • Collaborate with Platform on infrastructure and developer tooling.

Requirements

Must-Haves:

  • Architectural depth in complex distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and agentic applications.
  • Proven experience building AI agents in production with frameworks like LangGraph and LangChain.
  • Deep experience with AWS serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, Step Functions).
  • Strong coding skills with Python as a must-have.
  • Agent quality discipline with evaluations, regression testing, safety guardrails, and monitoring.
  • Strong backend and distributed-systems fundamentals.
  • Product and business alignment.
  • First-principles problem solving.

Desirable:

  • Experience building internal paved paths for agent development.
  • Practical experience with retrieval systems (vector databases, semantic search).
  • Exposure to model operations.
  • Experience in regulated or high-correctness domains.
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration and real-time systems.

Benefits and Perks

  • Competitive salary of £129,500.
  • Stock options.
  • 25 days holiday plus public holidays and birthday off.
  • Remote and flexible working.
  • Home working and wellbeing budgets up to £1,200 annually and £150 monthly.
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