Senior AI Engineer (Contract)

Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:

• One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 700 people

• Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK

• Profitable since 2017

• Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs

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  Create connectors and integrations that make company data available to AI systems (Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, GitHub, Snowflake, Confluence and more)

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  Build and maintain knowledge base pipelines, MCP integrations and API connections that power AI tooling across the business

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  Work with security and data governance requirements to ensure integrations are safe and appropriate

• Support internal teams to create their own AI-powered data sources, automated workflows and internal tools using rapid app builder tools

• Build templates, guardrails and building blocks that make it easy for non-engineers to experiment safely

• Contribute to our internal automation platform using tools like AWS Bedrock, n8n and custom-built solutions

• Work closely with the PM and engineering lead to identify the highest-leverage opportunities

• Ship quickly, measure outcomes (time saved, errors reduced, adoption) and iterate based on what you learn

• Stay curious about emerging tools and techniques — and apply them where they'll genuinely move the needle

• 4+ years of software engineering experience

• Strong full-stack skills in Python or TypeScript

• Experience shipping containerised software to Kubernetes

• Proven experience building AI tooling used by others in a commercial environment

• Comfortable working with LLMs, embeddings and AI application patterns

• Experience designing and building API integrations

• Self-starter who takes ownership end-to-end — from understanding the problem, through design and implementation, to monitoring and iteration

• Motivated by impact — you want to see your work used and making a difference

• Experience with workflow automation tools (n8n, Zapier, Make or similar)

• Familiarity with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)

• Experience with AWS Bedrock or other LLM provider APIs

• Experience of building and rolling out MCPs

• Experience of building and rolling out AI Skills

• Frontend skills with Next.js or React for internal tooling

1. Screening call with Hiring Manager

2. Technical interview based on a theoretical task

3. Interview with Product Manager

• Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies

• Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites

• Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls

• Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover

• Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans

• Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members

• Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations

• Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations

Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner.

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