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About the Role
Join Faculty as a Lead Software Engineer to guide the technical direction and delivery of complex AI and software projects. You will serve as a technical expert, applying your skills from solution architecture to client deployments, ensuring engineering decisions are sound and reliable. This role requires deep technical expertise and strong leadership to drive innovation, foster team growth, and build reusable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Setting the technical direction for complex ML and software projects, balancing trade-offs, and guiding team priorities.
- Architecting, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable ML/software systems, and justifying key architectural decisions.
- Defining project problems, developing roadmaps, and overseeing delivery across multiple workstreams in often ill-defined, high-risk environments.
- Driving the development of shared resources and libraries across the organisation and guiding other engineers in contributing to them.
- Leading hiring processes, making informed selection decisions, and mentoring multiple individuals to foster team growth.
- Proactively developing and executing recommendations for adopting new technologies, tools and changing our ways of working to stay ahead of the competition.
- Acting as a technical expert and coach for customers, accurately estimating large work-streams and defending rationale to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Possess strong software engineering skills in Python and at least one compiled or strongly-typed language (e.g. Go, Java, Rust, or TypeScript).
- Know how to build robust, production-grade systems.
- Expert in at least one major Cloud Solution Provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).
- Led teams to build full-stack web applications.
- Hands-on experience with containerisation tools like Docker and orchestration via Kubernetes.
- Can successfully manage and coach a team of engineers, setting team-wide development goals to improve client delivery.
- Find novel, clever solutions for project delivery and take ownership for successful project outcomes.
- Excellent communicator who can proactively help customers achieve their goals and guide both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills
- Python
- Go
- Java
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Cloud Solution Provider (Azure, GCP, AWS)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Full-stack web applications
- Software Engineering
- ML/Software Systems Architecture
- Technical Leadership
- Project Management
- Customer Coaching
- Hiring
- Mentoring
Location
- Hybrid Working
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Lead
Benefits
- Unlimited Annual Leave Policy
- Private healthcare and dental
- Enhanced parental leave
- Family-Friendly Flexibility & Flexible working
- Sanctus Coaching
About the Company
- Faculty was established in 2014 with the belief that AI would be the most important technology of our time.
- Faculty has worked with over 350 global customers to transform their performance through human-centric AI.
- Faculty innovates, builds, and deploys responsible AI that makes a significant impact.
- Faculty brings unparalleled depth of technical, product, and delivery expertise to clients across government, finance, retail, energy, life sciences, and defence.
- Faculty's Life Science’s team focuses on building AI solutions to optimize the research and commercialization of life-changing therapies.
- Faculty partners with major pharma firms, academic research centers, and MedTech start-ups to design and deliver solutions addressing critical healthcare challenges.
Equal Opportunity
- We aim to grow the best team - not the most similar one.
- Diversity of individuals fosters diversity of thought, which strengthens our principle of seeking truth.
- Diverse teams deliver better work, relevant to the world in which we live.
- We’re united by a deep intellectual curiosity and desire to use our abilities for measurable positive impact.
- We strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, religions and sexual orientations.