Join us as a Senior Engineer - AI Product Innovation
Want to do work that really matters?
At Checkatrade, we’re building the UK’s go-to home improvement marketplace. Every day, we help millions of homeowners find the right tradesperson for the job, fast, fair, and without the faff.
AI is at the core of that mission. We believe intelligence can genuinely improve lives and livelihoods — helping trades automate the everyday, win more work, and deliver with confidence, while making it easier for homeowners to find and collaborate with the right professional.
As our next Senior Engineer for AI Product Innovation, based in Barcelona, you’ll be part of a small, fast-moving team at the frontier of our AI experimentation. You’ll turn emerging AI capabilities into real, testable product experiences — working with APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, and exploring new frameworks like ACP, MCP, and AP2. This is a role for engineers who love to prototype, experiment, and push boundaries — finding out what’s possible before anyone else does.
Forget long lists, here’s what you’ll actually spend your time on:
Rapidly building and testing AI-powered features, from internal tools and proof-of-concepts to live marketplace experiments.
Exploring and validating how AI can create real leverage — whether that’s improving consumer search, automating trade workflows, or reimagining how users interact with Checkatrade.
Collaborating with product, data, and design teams to move fast, learn fast, and deliver insights that shape our next generation of products.
Working hands-on with APIs and frameworks like OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, and emerging agentic standards to test, iterate, and refine ideas.
It’s not about ticking every box. It’s about turning up curious, ready to crack on. You’ll do well here if you bring:
A maker’s mindset — you love to build, test, and tinker. You’ve probably played with GPTs, built side projects using LLMs, or hacked together small multi-agent systems just to see what’s possible.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, ideally across TypeScript, Python, or modern backend frameworks.
Curiosity about UX, user behaviour, and business impact — you care as much about the why as the how.
A bias for action: you thrive in ambiguity, love creative experimentation, and aren’t afraid to fail fast to learn faster.
A passion for applying AI responsibly — solving meaningful user problems, not just chasing hype.
We believe great work deserves great rewards. Here’s just a taste:
Great salary for the impact you make
Annual bonus - get rewarded for your work
Work your way - flexible, remote-friendly setup
Lunch vouchers so you stay fuelled while you build
Learning support for courses, certs and books to level up
Real time off - generous annual leave plus local public holidays
Interviews will take place in Barcelona and you will be required to work in Barcelona 2 days per week.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during our interview process, please discuss them with your Talent Acquisition Partner.
If this sounds like the place where you can do your best work, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t tick every box
About us
We’re Checkatrade – the UK’s leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business.
We’re growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.
Top Skills
What We Do
Checkatrade is one of the UK’s top online marketplaces for home improvements and repairs.
Our mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy – because we believe safe and happy homes improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities.
From our humble beginnings in 1998 to becoming a national household name, we’re on an exciting journey. For more than 25 years Checkatrade has stood for reputation and raising standards – whether that is for our trade members, consumers, or our colleagues. We think big and are passionate about changing the face of home improvements and repairs.
Today, we are a modern online marketplace and a force for good. We strive every day to support people to improve their homes and we don’t settle for the status quo – we are evolving, innovating, and growing.
With generous investment from private equity partners Brookfield, we have an ambitious growth plan and a robust roadmap to get there. Led by our values – Be All In, Always Customer Obsessed, Get It Done, Be Bold, and Do The Right Thing – we are 500 high-performing individuals working across the UK, with high-spec offices in London and Portsmouth.
We are here to be the best and inspire others to do the same, and to get there we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people – so if that sounds like you, you couldn’t join at a better time!
