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AI Platform Engineer
London
£90000 - £130000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Fully Remote (UK) | £95,000 to £130,000 plus stock options
This is a rare opportunity to shape the AI foundations of a modern SaaS platform at a pivotal stage of growth. You will join a product focused, design led business that is moving beyond experimentation into production grade, agentic AI systems that directly impact how design teams work at scale.
The Role
You will take ownership of AI and platform capabilities across the product, acting as a technical lead in a team of experienced full stack engineers.
- Design and build agentic AI workflows that operate across large, structured content sets
- Develop reliable AI systems that translate UI and design changes across the wider platform
- Build and maintain retrieval, orchestration and evaluation frameworks for LLM powered features
- Influence cloud architecture and cost efficiency within an AWS environment
- Work closely with product and design to ensure AI features are user focused and production ready
- Help establish best practice around observability, governance and responsible AI development
Your Skills and Experience
You will be a product minded engineer who enjoys building platforms from the ground up.
- Strong commercial experience as a full stack or backend focused engineer
- Hands on experience building agentic AI systems using frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph
- Experience shipping AI powered features into production environments
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS and services such as Bedrock or serverless tooling
- Experience with modern web technologies including React and JavaScript or TypeScript
- Comfortable working in evolving codebases, with exposure to Ruby on Rails or Node.js beneficial
- A track record of seeing products through build, launch and iteration
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Lead Back-End Software Developer
London
£500 - £600
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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Lead Backend Software Developer (Contract)
London,
Outside IR35
£500-£600 per day
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast‑moving engineering function at a pivotal moment of technical uplift. They are investing heavily in strengthening their core platforms and commercial data systems, creating a strong mandate for senior engineers to step in, lead, and make an immediate impact.
The Company
They are a growing digital gaming organisation operating across multiple markets, currently modernising their backend ecosystem. With distributed teams across the UK and Europe, they are building scalable platforms that support a variety of customer‑facing and internal products. Engineering quality, strong technical leadership, and delivery excellence are central to their transformation. Contractors join at a time when technical ownership is expanding in‑house, creating real scope to shape systems and standards.
The Role and Deliverables:
* Lead backend development across a complex CMS and core data systems.
* Own key architectural decisions and unblock teams through strong technical leadership.
* Enhance the NextGen CMS, working on logic driven functionality and system evolution.
* Expand and support the Master Data platform that underpins wider services.
* Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practice across the backend team.
* Accelerate delivery by improving patterns, processes, and overall code quality.
The Role and Deliverables:
* Lead development within the Commercial Data Manager, delivering new functionality and scaling existing services.
* Take full ownership of the HubSpot ecosystem, replacing agency support and bringing it in‑house.
* Implement new fields, features and data flows for commercial stakeholders.
* Maintain and evolve integrations across multiple services and data systems.
* Partner with architecture and engineering leadership on system design and improvements.
* (Nice to have) Drive smooth, reliable operation of CDM and HubSpot through clear technical ownership.
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong capability in Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript within complex backend environments.
* Confident designing scalable systems and making architectural decisions.
* Effective collaborator with product, delivery and commercial teams.
* Experience working in integration‑heavy or data‑rich environments.
* Proven leadership mindset with the ability to mentor, influence and drive standards.
* Practical cloud experience, ideally AWS, with good awareness of DevOps concepts.
How to Apply
If you are a senior backend contractor ready to take technical ownership and deliver meaningful impact, please apply with your CV.
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Senior Credit Risk Analyst
Birmingham
£50000 - £57000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentBirmingham, West Midlands
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Senior Credit Risk Analyst
Birmingham
£50-57,000
This is a high impact Senior Risk Analyst role offering the chance to shape credit strategy at a pivotal moment of growth. You will play a central role in launching a major new retail finance partnership, working with large and complex datasets while influencing decisions at senior level. The environment is fast paced, collaborative and gives you genuine ownership over strategy and outcomes.
The Company
They are a well established consumer finance business operating at scale in the UK, backed by a large international financial group. The organisation combines the stability of a major institution with the agility of a fintech style culture. Teams work closely across functions, ideas move quickly into production, and data driven decision making sits at the heart of the business.
The Role
You will sit within Credit Risk, working closely with senior stakeholders across the business to design, deliver and optimise credit strategies. Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and enhancing acquisition and customer management strategies across unsecured lending products
- Designing policy rules, limits, pricing strategies, scorecards and affordability frameworks
- Using internal, credit reference agency and alternative data to drive insight and strategy
- Monitoring portfolio performance, identifying emerging risks and recommending actions
- Supporting the onboarding of a major new retail finance partnership from a risk perspective
- Presenting strategy changes and performance insights to senior risk committees
- Contributing to wider risk initiatives across customer management and collections
Your Skills and Experience
They are open minded on background and value attitude and curiosity as much as technical strength. You are likely to bring:
- Strong commercial experience within consumer credit risk or a closely related analytics function
- Hands on experience developing credit strategies, policy rules or scorecards
- Confidence working with large datasets and translating analysis into clear recommendations
- Experience using SQL or SAS, with a willingness to learn new tools including Python
- The ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders
- Exposure to unsecured lending and UK credit markets
What They Offer
- Salary up to £57,000 depending on experience
- Bonus, pension, private medical
- Exposure to high profile projects with real business impact
- Clear opportunities for progression and skill development within a growing risk function
- Supportive, collaborative team culture backed by a well resourced organisation
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Research Manager (Consulting)
London
£60000 - £63000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Research Analyst / Consultant
Old Street, London (4 days in office, Fridays WFH)
Up to £63,000
I’m hiring a Research Analyst to join a fast-growing Series A-B research and technology startup using AI to transform how organisations understand people and make decisions.
This is a unique opportunity to move beyond traditional research agency work, combining quantitative research, consulting, and emerging AI-powered methodologies. You’ll work on high-impact projects across social, political, and commercial topics, partnering with leading foundations, think tanks, and mission-led organisations.
The role:
- Own end-to-end delivery of bespoke research projects
- Design and run quantitative research (survey design, sampling, analysis)
- Deliver insights through reports, presentations, and visualisations
- Work closely with analytics teams on advanced methods (segmentation, regression)
- Contribute to innovative AI-led research and qualitative outputs
What we’re looking for:
- 4+ years’ experience in quantitative or mixed-methods research
- Background in social, political, or opinion research (preferred)
- Strong client and project management experience
- Ability to translate complex data into clear insights
- Interest in AI tools and modern research techniques
BENEFITS
The successful candidate will receive a salary of up to £63,000, alongside a competitive benefits package. This includes hybrid working (4 days in office, Fridays from home), strong development opportunities, and the chance to work in a high-growth startup using cutting-edge AI tools. You’ll be part of a collaborative, low-hierarchy environment with real ownership and exposure to impactful, global projects.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Keji Adebari via the Apply link on this page!
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Product Analyst (FTC)
London
£60000 - £70000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Product Analyst (6 Month FTC)
London, Hybrid (1 to 2 days per week) | Up to £70,000 pro rata
This is a high impact opportunity for a Product Analyst to join a fast scaling, product led digital business during a key period of growth. You will work closely with Product, Engineering and Commercial teams to turn data into actionable insight, directly influencing user experience, conversion and product strategy.
The Company
They are a rapidly growing, private equity backed digital platform operating a large scale membership model with millions of active users. The business has built a strong product culture, with experienced leadership from well known consumer technology organisations. With continued international expansion and investment in data, they are focused on using insight to drive smarter, faster decisions across the organisation.
The Role
- Use quantitative analysis and data storytelling to understand user behaviour, product performance and conversion
- Partner with Product Managers and Engineers to identify friction points and opportunities across the product journey
- Support experimentation by generating hypotheses, designing tests and analysing results to drive a test and learn culture
- Define and align core product metrics with stakeholders, ensuring consistency and accuracy across teams
- Build and maintain self serve dashboards and analytics tools using a modern data stack
- Deliver deep dive analysis to inform product and commercial strategy
- Contribute to a shared insights hub, documenting reports, metrics and learnings to support wider teams
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial and analytical experience within a product led or technology driven environment
- Proven background in product analytics, working closely with cross functional teams
- Experience building dashboards and reporting for a range of stakeholders
- Strong data modelling mindset and comfort working with modern data environments
- Experience with tools such as dbt and modern BI platforms like Lightdash or Looker is beneficial
What They Offer
- Salary up to £70,000 pro rata for a 6 month fixed term contract
- Flexible hybrid working with 1 to 2 days per week in a London office
- A visible, high impact role within a fast scaling business
- The opportunity to shape and improve self serve analytics capability within a mature data function
How to Apply
Apply now to find out more about this Product Analyst contract opportunity.
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Creative Designer/Lead
Leeds
£350 - £450
+ Digital Analytics
ContractLeeds, West Yorkshire
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Creative Lead, Marketing (Contract)
Remote, 9 Month Contract
A chance to take ownership of creative output for a high-impact digital product, shaping emotionally engaging campaigns across web, app, and CRM touchpoints within a fast-moving healthcare-focused environment.
The Company
They are a well-established digital product organisation working on services that support users at key moments in their lives. With a strong in-house marketing, CRM, and copy function, they are focused on delivering meaningful and user-centred communications at scale. This role sits within a dedicated product squad, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to improve user engagement and experience.
The Role and Deliverables
* Lead creative direction across marketing campaigns, spanning web, email, app, and social channels
* Design visually compelling and emotionally engaging layouts and campaign assets
* Translate complex messaging into clear, user-focused creative outputs
* Collaborate with copy, CRM, and marketing teams to deliver cohesive campaigns
* Introduce creative thinking into a data-driven environment, balancing insight with emotion
* Explore the use of AI tools for ideation and rapid creative prototyping
Your Skills & Experience
* Strong experience as a Creative Lead or Senior Marketing Designer in digital environments
* Proven ability to deliver high-quality creative across multiple channels, including web, email, and app
* Experience working within healthcare, public sector, or similarly regulated environments is highly desirable
* Ability to bring emotional intelligence and tone of voice into creative work
* Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including CRM and marketing
* Interest in using AI to support creative ideation and workflow efficiency
How to Apply
If you’re interested in leading creative direction on a meaningful product, please apply with your CV and portfolio.
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UX Designer
London
£350 - £450
+ Digital Analytics
ContractLondon
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London (Remote), £350-450 Day Rate, Contract Length TBC
A unique opportunity to shape a next-generation AI-driven marketing and personalisation product. This contract focuses on designing intuitive, scalable user journeys for a platform that enables businesses to create tailored customer experiences with ease.
The Company
They are a fast-growing startup working at the intersection of AI and marketing technology. Their product enables businesses to design and deploy personalised customer journeys and campaigns in a modular, flexible way. The platform is evolving quickly, with a strong focus on improving usability and streamlining complex workflows. This is a highly collaborative environment with direct access to founders and decision-makers.
The Role and Deliverables
* Design end-to-end UX for an AI-powered personalisation and campaign-building platform
* Create clear, intuitive journey flows that simplify complex user interactions
* Translate product requirements into wireframes and high-quality UX artefacts
* Improve the usability and efficiency of campaign creation and customer targeting workflows
* Collaborate closely with founders and product teams to iterate on design concepts
* Support the development of “next best action” features within customer journeys
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong experience designing UX for complex applications or platforms
* Proven ability to design structured, step-by-step user journeys and flows
* Experience working on AI-driven products, personalisation systems, or data-led platforms
* Background in designing transactional or logic-heavy environments, such as fintech or similar
* Ability to simplify manual, complex workflows into intuitive user experiences
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup environment with senior stakeholders
How to Apply
If you are interested in shaping a cutting-edge AI product, please apply with your CV and portfolio.
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Senior Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer
London
£440 - £540
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Senior Full Stack Developer & AI Engineer
Fully Remote
Outside IR35
£440-£540 Per Day
Immediate Start Date
4-6 Weeks long
The Company
They are a specialist technology consultancy focused on delivering AI-driven solutions for large, complex organisations. Their work centres on turning advanced AI capabilities into practical, production-ready applications that deliver measurable business value. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving, and driven by technical excellence. Engineers are trusted to lead, influence, and make meaningful decisions.
The Role and Deliverables
- Lead the design and build of end-to-end AI-powered applications, from initial architecture through to production deployment.
- Architect scalable backend services and intuitive frontend interfaces that expose AI capabilities to enterprise users.
- Design and implement agentic AI systems, including orchestration patterns, tool integration, and evaluation approaches.
- Set technical direction and best practices across the full stack, ensuring high standards of quality and maintainability.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design input, and hands-on problem solving.
- Contribute to reusable components and frameworks that accelerate delivery across engagements.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience delivering full stack applications using modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks, with React or similar on the frontend.
- Proven backend engineering capability in Python and or Node.js, including API design and service-oriented architectures.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying AI solutions using large language models and related frameworks.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms and modern deployment patterns such as containerisation, serverless, and CI/CD.
- Strong data fundamentals, including SQL, data modelling, and integration with enterprise data platforms.
- Ability to lead technically, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and operate confidently in ambiguous problem spaces.
How to Apply
If you are a senior full stack engineer with a passion for applied AI and technical leadership, apply now to discuss this contract opportunity in more detail.
