Details:
- Salary: £40,000 - 55,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Gillingham Medway
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Position Overview
Candidates would be expected to provide technical leadership of a component or subsystem within an internally developed AI platform, driving quality and best practices while mentoring junior team members. You will be expected to demonstrate technical authority for specific domains such as backend services, system integration, or frontend experience. Junior candidates should also consider themselves for this role as a function of their demonstrable expertise, rather than professional tenure or experience.
Key Responsibilities
* Technical Leadership: Own technical direction for assigned components; make design decisions within scope
* Architecture: Design full-featured and component-level architectures; contribute to system-wide architectural discussions
* Complex Development: Lead development of complex features spanning an internally developed AI IDE consisting of frontend, backend and related databases
* Integration Ownership: Lead AI IDE as well as specific engineering systems (e.g., calibration tools, dyno data systems) integration efforts
* Quality: Lead comprehensive testing strategies development implementation; test strategy library maintenance, and actively contribute to code reviews
* Mentoring: Coach and develop Junior Engineers and Engineers; conduct thorough code reviews
* DevOps: Design and implement CI/CD pipelines; establish deployment best practices
* Technical Support: Handle L3 escalations; contribute to root cause analysis
What we’re looking for
Skills
* LLM integration and prompt engineering experience
* Enterprise system integration (APIs, ETL, middleware)
* Windows deployment and/or Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Electron desktop application development and Blue-Green deployment
* Automotive engineering domain knowledge (ECU, calibration, test systems)
* AI Chat Interface architecture and extension development
* Tenacity to work through challenging problems independently
* Willingness to seek council and support with challenging problems
* Ability to keep an open mind
Education & Experience
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related Engineering discipline (Master's desirable)
* 4 to 5 years professional software development experience (Full Stack Desirable)
* Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Svelte and/or Electron
* Strong proficiency in modern and AI databases, REST APIs, and version control (Git)
* Demonstrable experience with system design and architecture
* CI/CD pipeline design and implementation experience
* Track record of mentoring and developing others (desirable)
* Strong problem-solving aptitude, eagerness to learn and strong inquisitive nature
* Critical thinker with a ‘can-do!’ mindset
AI Augmentation Expectation
This role fundamentally operates with AI augmentation. The engineer will leverage AI assistants as a force multiplier for and chart new territory in coding, debugging, research, and documentation, enabling delivery scope typically requiring a larger team and more highly skilled engineers.
What we offer
We provide compensation and benefits programs intended to attract, motivate, reward, and retain an incredibly talented, globally diverse workforce at all levels within our organization.
25 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
Working hours – 37 Hours Per Week
Subsidised canteen
Dental plan
On-site parking
On-site Gym £10 per Month
Staff discount with selected retailers
Pension Scheme – Salary Sacrificed
EAP programme (Health Assured)
Death in Service benefit – 4x Annual Salary
AXA Private Medical Cover (Sole Only)
Visa Sponsorship
PHINIA does provide sponsorship for employment visa status based on business need. However, for this role, applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis, in the country where the position is currently based