Senior Full Stack/AI Engineer (Backend Leaning)

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London, Greater London, England
In-Office
Senior level
Information Technology • Consulting
The Role
The role involves backend engineering, designing scalable systems, integrating AI, and consulting with clients on technical solutions while also requiring frontend contributions as needed.
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Senior Full‑Stack/AI Engineer (Backend-leaning) 

Who We Are:

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or ‘Clubs’) so that our partners are always prioritized by a regional team close to them.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

What you’ll bring to the table:Core Technical Expertise:
  • Strong hands‑on backend engineering experience, with depth in one or more of: Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python or Go, and the ability to work confidently across multiple languages when needed.
  • Proven ability to design and build scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend systems, including REST/GraphQL APIs, event‑driven architectures, and distributed services.
  • Hands‑on experience with AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, Step Functions, etc.) and strong understanding of cloud‑native patterns. Exposure to to GCP, Azure, or other Cloud Platforms would be a valuable plus.
  • Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices.
  • Comfortable working across the stack, contributing to frontend codebases when needed, even though your strength lies in backend and systems engineering.
  • Demonstrates technical leadership, shaping architectural direction, reviewing designs, and role‑modelling high‑quality engineering practices.
  • Strong grounding in system design, including trade‑off analysis, performance considerations, observability, and operational readiness.
  • Able to take ownership of complex technical problems, make pragmatic decisions, and clearly explain reasoning to both engineers and non‑technical stakeholders.
AI & Emerging Technology
  • Practical experience integrating AI into backend systems — e.g., orchestrating AI services, building AI‑powered workflows, or leveraging AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
  • Experience building AI-enabled systems (including LLM- or RAG-based solutions) from MVP or proof-of-concept through to production-ready implementations, with consideration for reliability, evaluation, security, and maintainability.
  • Understands where AI meaningfully enhances backend systems (e.g., classification, summarisation, anomaly detection) versus where traditional algorithms are more appropriate.
  • Able to evaluate risk, cost, scalability, and maintainability when proposing AI‑driven solutions.
  • Curious about emerging AI patterns, frameworks, and tooling, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in line with client needs.
  • Comfortable advising clients on realistic AI opportunities and helping them navigate hype vs. practical value.
Consulting & Client Delivery
  • Experience working in a consulting or client-facing environment, comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces and contributing to both solution discovery and delivery.
  • Able to balance client outcomes, commercial considerations, and technical integrity, adapting approach and communication style depending on context.
  • Acts as a trusted technical partner within delivery teams and with clients, influencing outcomes through clarity, pragmatism, and credibility.
Nice To Have (but valuable)
  • Experience with high‑scale distributed systems, event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), or microservices.
  • Exposure to serverless architectures, container orchestration or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Familiarity with security best practices, including IAM, secrets management, and secure API design.

Why join AND Digital?

We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

  • Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people’s lives.
  • A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
  • A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
  • An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don’t have to study in your own free time.
  • Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.
  • A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Benefits:

  • 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
  • 2 days per year for volunteering
  • Share scheme
  • A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
  • PLUS many more

For a full list of benefits - click here

Equal Opportunities Statement

At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.

Top Skills

AWS
Azure
Ci/Cd
GCP
Go
Java
Kafka
Kinesis
Node.js
Python
Terraform
Typescript
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The Company
Edinburgh
1,348 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

AND Digital is on a mission to close the world’s digital skills gap. We do that by doing things differently when we work with our clients, communities and colleagues. Instead of working FOR exciting brands (like British Airways, Heineken and Nike), we work WITH them, and that's not just a party line. We combine our people with our clients' people to form a single project team, so collaborative you can't tell our ANDis from our clients. By working together, we help our partners understand and map out the challenges they're trying to solve. Then, by building their digital products as one team, we teach them the same digital skills we have. That means when we leave, they can own their apps, websites and future projects independently. Pretty cool huh?

We have cross-functional teams working across the UK, Netherlands and East Coast US - and growing by demand. Our unique, city-based Club model means we can offer the agility and personalised service of a small local company, with the security and clout of a global organisation

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