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About the Role

We are seeking a Tech Lead to guide a small, skilled team while remaining actively involved in hands-on development. This role involves driving execution, defining technical direction, and building core systems alongside the team, playing a key part in realizing a new category of interactive systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers, setting a high technical bar
• Remain deeply hands-on owning and building core systems, writing production code, and contributing directly to key features
• Take ownership of critical systems
• Own project delivery: planning, prioritisation, and execution
• Bring strong engineering practices and help create a high-performance culture
• Work closely with product to shape features and make pragmatic trade-offs
• Contribute across the stack, choosing the right tools and languages for each problem
• Help define and evolve our technical architecture as we scale

Requirements

• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams
• Recent experience spending a meaningful portion of time coding, not just managing
• Strong hands-on engineering background; actively building production systems and comfortable owning them end-to-end
• Experience delivering software from concept through to production
• Comfortable working in cross-functional environments, including collaboration with researchers
• Tech-agnostic mindset: willing to work across languages, tools, and systems
• Strong understanding of engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, system design, code quality)
• Product-minded: able to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
• Strong interest in games, simulation, or interactive experiences
• Experience in startups or small, fast-moving teams (Nice to Have)
• Exposure to game development, real-time systems, or simulation (Nice to Have)
• Experience with AI/ML systems or data-driven products (Nice to Have)

Skills

• AI
• Interactive Entertainment
• Software Development
• System Design
• Testing
• CI/CD
• Code Quality
• Game Development
• Real-time Systems
• Simulation
• AI/ML Systems
• Data-driven Products

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• In-person collaboration

Experience Level

• Tech Lead
• Hands-on individual contributor

Benefits

• High ownership and direct impact in a small team
• Work on technically challenging, meaningful problems
• Help shape both the product and engineering culture from an early stage

About the Company

• We’re building digital actors: AI-driven characters that don’t just talk, but act; shaping the world, responding to the player, and driving stories that evolve through both words and actions.
• We believe games and interactive media are on the verge of a fundamental shift. Today’s experiences are largely scripted, characters follow predefined paths, and player choice is limited. We’re building systems that change that: digital actors that can think, communicate, and take action in real time.
• Our goal is to create worlds that are truly alive. Worlds where stories emerge from interaction, and every player experience is unique. Recent advances in AI make this possible for the first time. The challenge now is turning that potential into real, scalable systems that people can play.