Senior Software Engineer

About Us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a leading technology platform for the art world. Founded in 1989, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] empowers over 6,000 galleries, dealers, and art professionals worldwide to streamline their operations and grow their businesses. The company's integrated platform combines inventory management, CRM, websites, sales, marketing, and payment tools, everything needed to run a modern and successful art business. In 2021, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] was acquired by tech investors Cove Hill Partners to accelerate innovation and expand its global reach. Since then, the company has doubled in size, with employees across London, New York, Atlanta, and Cape Town. Today, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is entering an exciting new chapter through its merger with ArtCloud, another industry leader in art technology. Together, the two companies are uniting complementary platforms to build the most comprehensive, forward-thinking solution for the art world. Joining [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] means becoming part of a growing global team that is shaping the future of how art is bought, sold, and managed.

About the Role

We are seeking a pragmatic, impact-driven AI-Native Senior Software Engineer to help evolve and extend our platform while guiding technical direction and supporting team development. This role centres on solving real-world problems for art professionals, making thoughtful technical decisions that balance business impact with engineering trade-offs. You will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and engineers to take ideas from inception through to production. You will act as both a senior technical contributor and a product-minded engineer. This role is predominantly hands-on, with around 20–30% of time on technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Help the team move faster by adopting AI-native workflows and the shift to an agentic development lifecycle.
• Define guardrails, review practices, and validation gates for AI-generated code.
• Design, build, and operate software across our platform.
• Embed deeply with Product and Design from the earliest stages of discovery.
• Own complex features and ambiguous technical problems end-to-end.
• Serve as a critical technical voice, stress-testing AI-generated solutions.
• Shape platform architecture with an architectural lens.
• Continuously identify and exploit opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Navigate confidently across legacy and greenfield contexts.
• Set the engineering standard for AI-generated code.
• Grow the team's capability and confidence with AI-native practices.
• Define and evolve best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines to incorporate agentic workflows.
• Champion secure by design principles.
• Own system observability and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

About You

You're a hands-on senior engineer with a product mindset and the judgement to know which trade-offs matter. You'll likely bring deep experience building scalable, secure, cloud-based systems; proven ability to work across legacy and greenfield codebases; strong system design fundamentals; hands-on experience with observability tooling; solid SQL and data management skills; familiarity with CI/CD, containerisation, and DevSecOps; a pragmatic approach to testing; experience mentoring engineers; and strong communication skills.

What We Offer

• Company profit sharing scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Long service entitlement
• Flexible working
• Premier private health insurance
• Childcare nursery benefit scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech buying scheme
• Free eye test
• Company pension scheme
• Focus on professional development

Equal Opportunities

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment and employment practices. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants and employees.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that this position is UK-based and involves hybrid working. Candidates must have or be able to obtain appropriate immigration status entitling them to work in the UK. We do not have a sponsor licence and are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this position.