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Vertical Ai Strategies

Overview We are seeking a dynamic and highly skilled Lead Engineer to help guide a multidisciplinary engineering team, supporting the development and deployment of autonomous marine platforms. This role is ideal for a highly capable, hands-on engineer who thrives in fast-paced prototyping and field deployment environments&mdash;building, testing, iterating, and solving practical engineering challenges. You will work closely with cross-functional engineering and integration teams to drive execution and deliver robust, field-ready systems.Responsibilities:&middot; Lead day-to-day technical execution across multidisciplinary engineering efforts&middot; Lead a team of 5&ndash;7 mechanical, electrical, and mechatronics engineers, collaborating closely with software and integration teams to deliver reliable, field-ready systems&middot; Support system integration, bring-up, debugging, and validation of autonomous marine platforms&middot; Coordinate engineering execution, planning, and resource allocation across multiple concurrent development efforts, prototype builds, and field trials&middot; Work directly on complex technical challenges involving electromechanical systems, communications, controls, and autonomous behaviors&middot; Conduct design reviews and provide hands-on mentorship to engineers across disciplines&middot; Collaborate closely with software architecture and systems integration teams to ensure subsystem compatibility and successful platform integration&middot; Partner with commercial stakeholders on project-specific development efforts and overall scope alignment&middot; Support prioritization, task coordination, and engineering execution in partnership with leadership&middot; Assist with field testing, trials, and operational deployments&middot; Help establish and reinforce engineering best practices, documentation standards, and development processes&middot; Contribute to hiring and development of engineering staffRequirements:&middot; US Citizenship Required&middot; Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, or related discipline)&middot; Minimum 6+ years of engineering experience in complex electromechanical or robotics systems&middot; Strong system-level understanding of integrated hardware/software systems&middot; Hands-on experience with system design, integration, debugging, and field testing&middot; Proficiency in project management tools&middot; Familiarity with at least some combination of embedded systems, firmware, CAD, controls, networking, or electromechanical integration&middot; Experience working across multidisciplinary engineering teams&middot; Strong technical problem-solving skills in fast-paced development environments&middot; Ability to mentor engineers and support cross-functional collaboration&middot; Familiarity with networking, communications systems, embedded systems, or controls&middot; Willingness to participate in field deployments and sea trialsPay: $155,000.00 - $165,000.00 per yearBenefits:<ul><li>401(k)</li><li>Dental insurance</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>Paid time off</li><li>Retirement plan</li></ul>Education:<ul><li>Bachelor's (Required)</li></ul>Experience:<ul><li>engineering in complex electromechanical or robotics systems: 6 years (Required)</li><li>embedded systems, controls, and real-time software: 1 year (Required)</li></ul>Ability to Commute:<ul><li>Richmond, CA 94804 (Required)</li></ul>Work Location: In person

Lead Engineer

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<div><h1 class="jobSectionHeader">Lead Software Engineer (Agentic AI &amp; Strong Programming) 6-8 Years</h1>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Role Overview</h2>
<div>We are looking for an AI Engineer with strong programming fundamentals and hands-on experience in Agentic AI development. The ideal candidate should be language-agnostic and capable of working across multiple technologies, with expertise in any of the following programming languages: Python, Java, C#, or C++.</div>
<div>This role requires solid experience in system design, OOP principles, REST API development, and building scalable AI-driven applications.</div>
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Key Responsibilities</h2>
<ul><li>Design and develop AI agent-based systems and workflows</li>
<li>Build scalable backend services and REST APIs</li>
<li>Apply OOP principles and design patterns in production systems</li>
<li>Integrate LLMs and AI capabilities into applications</li>
<li>Solve complex technical problems</li>
<li>Work across multiple programming languages when required</li>
<li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams</li>
<li>Containerize applications using Docker and support deployments</li>
<li>Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions</li> 
</ul><div></div> 
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Required Skills (Must Have)</h2>
<ul><li>Strong programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, C#, or C++</li>
<li>Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)</li>
<li>Good knowledge of Design Patterns</li>
<li>Strong problem-solving skills</li>
<li>Hands-on experience building REST APIs</li>
<li>Experience with AI Agent / LLM-based development</li>
<li>Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar AI agent frameworks</li>
<li>Experience building RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems</li>
<li>Experience with AI-assisted coding / coding with AI tools</li>
<li>Ability to effectively leverage AI tools for development productivity</li>
<li>Exposure to Cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)</li>
<li>Experience with Docker</li>
<li>Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly</li> 
</ul><div></div> 
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Preferred (Good to Have)</h2>
<ul><li>Understanding of Data Structures &amp; Algorithms</li>
<li>Kubernetes exposure</li>
<li>Microservices architecture experience</li>
<li>Experience building scalable distributed systems</li>
<li>CI/CD pipeline experience</li> 
</ul><div></div> 
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Ideal Candidate</h2>
<ul><li>Strong in engineering fundamentals</li>
<li>Language-agnostic developer</li>
<li>Comfortable working on new technologies</li>
<li>Eager to learn and adapt quickly</li>
<li>Strong analytical and logical thinking</li>
<li>Can contribute to architecture discussions</li></ul></div>

Disguise Technologies Ltd

<div>Role: Lead Engineer - Commercial Systems

Department: Operations 
Reports into: VP of Commercial Operations 
Location: London, UK (hybrid)
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Role Summary</h3>

We're looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of developing and optimizing our user-facing commercial platform. This platform is at the heart of how customers interact with our products, so you'll have a big impact on shaping both user experience and business operations.

You'll be joining our Commercial Operations team, while collaborating heavily with the wider engineering team, finance, sales and operations. Together, you'll develop and deliver a system that evolves alongside our customers' and business's changing needs.

We're looking for an engineer with a strong proficiency in our technology stack that can hit the ground running and is passionate about building successful products or systems. The role will be a mix of hands-on development and project management. You need to be able to translate the business vision into code and interact with a wider group of stakeholders.

You'll be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you'll have excellent attention to detail; and you'll be comfortable with new technologies and systems.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Key Responsibilities</h3>
<ul><li>Act as a project manager for the various releases; communicate timelines to key stakeholders, advise on the roadmap, define best practice, etc.</li>
<li>Manage and mentor junior developers</li>
<li>Build and maintain APIs, services, and systems through multiple platforms, languages and technologies</li>
<li>Build scalable and robust backend solutions leveraging proper database optimizations</li>
<li>Build and maintain Vue controls and components to expose functionality to end users</li>
<li>Coordinate with other developers, UX designers and data engineers to ensure successful delivery of key milestones</li>
<li>Work heavily with other development teams within the organization to lend your expertise to other company applications</li>
<li>Review other developers code and pull requests, including code reviews and quality assurance testing</li>
<li>Assist the Support team members in customer inquiries, solving and troubleshooting problems and responding to support requests both internally and externally</li>
<li>Assist with troubleshooting, debugging, and deployments where necessary</li>
<li>Be able to take a feature and break it down into manageable tasks for implementation</li>
</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Required Skills &amp; Qualifications</h3>
<ul><li>5+ years software dev experience (ideally with some experience through a full product lifecycle, from ideation to deployment).</li>
<li>Project management experience and Product-minded: ability to think about the why and not just the how.</li>
<li>Strong proficiency in Vue on the frontend</li>
<li>Strong proficiency in Django and/or Laravel on the backend</li>
<li>Proven experience building integrations with existing business systems and processes (ideally Stripe, Salesforce, Netsuite, or similar and licensing management systems)</li>
<li>Experience leading and/or mentoring junior developers</li>
<li>Comfortable with legacy systems, including SOAP</li>
<li>Experience/willingness to use AI tools like Claude Code to improve productivity without impacting quality</li>
<li>JIRA, GitHub, ProductBoard or other project management tracking and ticketing tools</li>
<li>Git source control including proficiency with branches, pull requests, and code reviews</li>
<li>Strong REST understanding and implementation experience, servicing public and private APIs, including OpenAPI spec and documentation</li>
<li>Exposure to standard AWS based product stacks, and associated secondary tooling for documentation, testing and deployments</li>
</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">Nice to Have</h3>
<ul><li>Basic design/UX sensibility</li>
<li>Nuxt.js</li>
<li>Tailwind CSS</li>
<li>Experience or familiarity in the live events, film, production, or entertainment industries</li>
</ul><div>
About Disguise

Disguise is the industry-leading platform sitting at the heart of a new era of visual experiences. One powerful integrated system of software, hardware and services to help create the next dimension of real-time spectacle. 
We partner with the biggest entertainment brands and companies in the world to deliver the A-list of live music events, live TV broadcasts, immersive experiences, installations, theatre, film and TV production, corporate communications and brand product launches. Working with Disney, Snapchat, Netflix, ESPN, the Burj Khalifa, and Adele, Disguise is the number one partner delivering the next dimension of entertainment. 


Don't Disguise your differences.

Innovation comes from everyone. We strive to create a workplace that reflects our diverse audience. We celebrate our people for their full authentic selves, and embrace uniqueness. Inclusion and Equity matter at Disguise. We create together and we create everywhere. 


Our values
<ul>
<li>Honest. We are real with ourselves and our clients and share our ideas with openness and transparency.</li>
<li>Evolutionary. We innovate using our user's ever-changing needs so our technology remains ahead-of-the-game.</li>
<li>Fearless. We take the best path, not the easiest, and innovate where it's right, not where it's simplest.</li>
<li>Resilience. We don't give up until we find the right solution, even if it means going outside our remit.</li>
<li>Belong. We create an environment where everyone feels like they belong and is empowered to do their best work.</li></ul> 


Our benefits
<ul>
<li>We have a suite of globally relevant competitive benefits packages as we want to make sure we retain the best talent out there. Our benefits for every perm hire, globally include:</li>
<li>Unlimited Paid Time Off - with minimum time you must take set at 20% above statutory</li>
<li>Hybrid working between home and our offices (dependent on role and location)</li>
<li>Mental health and wellbeing support - subscription to the Calm app, mental health first-aid buddies, employee assistance programmes</li>
<li>Gig allowance - &pound;400 (or local equivalent) to spend on tickets every year to immerse yourself in our industries</li>
<li>Belonging policies - including (but not limited to) support for Parental, Fertility, Miscarriage, Menopause and Transitioning</li>
<li>Training, coaching &amp; mentoring</li></ul></div></div>

Billing Finance Ltd.

About You.<ul><li>Have you led engineering in a cloud-native environment?</li><li>Do you have a background in hands-on software, data, or platform engineering?</li><li>Does the idea of joining a business investing in technology as a strategic enabler appeal?</li></ul>About the Role.We&rsquo;re in the middle of something genuinely exciting. We&rsquo;re moving from a predominantly on-premises setup to a cloud-native architecture on Google Cloud Platform, integrating best-in-class SaaS providers across the full loan lifecycle from origination through to final settlement. That means enhancing our infrastructure, data, and engineering, with the support of our leadership team who are committed to doing it properly.We work with GCP, Python, Terraform, and GitHub, using automation, Infrastructure as Code, and modern delivery practices to move fast while maintaining quality and control.We&rsquo;re now expanding our permanent team and are seeking a T-shaped Lead Engineer to bring deep technical expertise along with a collaborative mindset. You&rsquo;ll work across data, platform, and software domains, taking ownership from design through to production, applying modern cloud and engineering principles. You&rsquo;ll lead a small, high-trust team of engineers and work closely with the Senior Technology Manager to shape the direction of our technology platform not just help deliver it.What You&rsquo;ll Do.<ul><li>Own and evolve our engineering practices, setting the bar on DevSecOps, reliability, and cloud-native development</li><li>Shape our technology strategy, with genuine influence over direction, not just execution</li><li>Lead architectural decision-making and technical assessments, drive automation, and own our Infrastructure as Code approach end-to-end</li><li>Design, develop, deploy, and set the standard for how we manage cloud resources</li><li>Contribute directly to delivery and balance hands-on technical contribution with leadership - you'll need to know when to do and when to delegate</li><li>Lead and develop a small team of engineers, with a coaching style that builds genuine capability and cross-skilling rather than dependency</li><li>Build trusted relationships across technical and operational teams to translate real business needs into well-scoped, fit-for-purpose solutions</li></ul>Your Working Style and ExperienceYou&rsquo;re at home in a cloud-native world - if you know your way around GCP, even better. You&rsquo;ll be the bridge between technical design and delivery, so you should be comfortable being hands on with our codebase, holding your own in code reviews, and owning the lifecycle of our platforms. Because we operate in financial services, experience in a regulated industry is a huge plus, but don&rsquo;t worry if you haven't done motor finance specifically. What matters most is your approach to SRE, DevSecOps, and building for scale without breaking things.As a natural collaborator and owner, you&rsquo;ll lead with a proactive mindset, balancing quality, speed, innovation, and risk.If you&rsquo;re an engineering leader who thrives on quality, reliability, and taking projects from inception to production, we&rsquo;d love to hear from you.About Billing FinanceWe are a privately-run family-owned vehicle financing Company based on the outskirts of Northampton. We focus on customers with non-standard credit profiles that may not fit the automated underwriting processes of other lenders. Our mission is to help get all our people, including customers and staff &ldquo;where they need to be&rdquo; by &ldquo;putting them at the heart of everything we do&rdquo;. We are entering an exciting phase of transformation and as a small company, this role will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to work across the whole customer journey cycle, and to directly see the impacts that they made.Our values are:<ul><li>We are responsible &ndash; We are conscious of our impact on people and planet</li><li>We care about you &ndash; We are kind and compassionate with our customers and with each other</li><li>We work with you &ndash; We support financial wellbeing for our customers and the wider community</li></ul>The successful candidate will not only have a successful and fulfilling career with us but will also receive a fantastic range of benefits:<ul><li>Discretionary bonus scheme</li><li>Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme</li><li>Pension salary sacrifice scheme</li><li>Private Medical</li><li>Income Protection</li><li>Hybrid working</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme</li><li>Annual &pound;200 personal growth fund</li><li>Ongoing learning support</li><li>Paid volunteering days</li></ul>Don&rsquo;t meet every single requirement?Studies have shown that women and ethnic minorities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Billing Finance we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you&rsquo;re excited about this role but your past experience doesn&rsquo;t align fully with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate.​The Recruitment Process and How We Will Use Your DataThe recruitment process will involve obtaining information and/or exchanging it with the following organisations to assist with our pre-employment checks prior to interview.<ul><li>Credit Reference Agencies &ndash; to complete a soft credit check to understand your financial history</li><li>CIFAS &ndash; to check both National and Internal databases for fraudulent activity. The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found here https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.</li></ul>To complete these checks, you will be asked to provide your address history for the past six years, along with your full name and date of birth.The successful candidate will be required to undergo a Basic DBS check to comply with our FCA compliance framework. A satisfactory Basic Disclosure showing no unspent convictions is a prerequisite for this position.We may also ask for proof of your right to work status or evidence of any qualification or experience prior to being offered employment. Further information on how we collect and use your data during the recruitment process can be found in our Recruitment Privacy Policy here https://billingfinance.co.uk/privacy-policy/Billing Finance is an equal opportunities employer, and we understand that for some candidates to perform their best they may need some reasonable adjustments. If we can make your application journey with us more suitable for you, please do let us know and we will endeavour to help.Job Types: Full-time, PermanentPay: &pound;75,000.00-&pound;90,000.00 per yearBenefits:<ul><li>Company pension</li><li>Cycle to work scheme</li><li>Free flu jabs</li><li>Free parking</li><li>Life insurance</li><li>On-site parking</li><li>Paid volunteer time</li><li>Sick pay</li></ul>Ability to commute/relocate:<ul><li>Northampton NN3 9EX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)</li></ul>Work authorisation:<ul><li>United Kingdom (required)</li></ul>Work Location: Hybrid remote in Northampton NN3 9EX

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