Application Engineer, Cambridge or London (hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Avanti Recruitment is partnering with a well-established award-winning AI software company that builds advanced technology used by leading organisations to manage and analyse large volumes of complex documents.
Founded over a decade ago, the business combines deep technical expertise with real-world impact, operating at scale with enterprise customers while retaining the pace and agility of a product-led technology company.
This is an opportunity to join a growing application engineering team working on production-grade systems at the intersection of software engineering, data, and applied AI.
THE ROLE
As an Application Engineer, you will work within a cross-functional product team, building and scaling features that are used directly by customers.
Avanti Recruitment is partnering with a well-established award-winning AI software company that builds advanced technology used by leading organisations to manage and analyse large volumes of complex documents.
Founded over a decade ago, the business combines deep technical expertise with real-world impact, operating at scale with enterprise customers while retaining the pace and agility of a product-led technology company.
This is an opportunity to join a growing application engineering team working on production-grade systems at the intersection of software engineering, data, and applied AI.
THE ROLE
As an Application Engineer, you will work within a cross-functional product team, building and scaling features that are used directly by customers.
- Develop full stack features across a large, complex platform
- Work with high-volume, data-heavy systems where performance and scalability matter
- Collaborate closely with product managers, QA, and AI-focused R&D teams
- Take ownership of features from design through to production and iteration
- Contribute ideas and improvements rather than working from rigid specifications
- JavaScript and TypeScript
- Node.js
- Modern frontend frameworks (with an ongoing migration to React)
- PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- Java / Python experience is an advantage
- Strong academic background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline (1st or 2.1 from a good University)
- Typically 3–5 years of commercial software engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates
- Experience building production software, ideally in a full stack environment
- Strong problem-solving ability and logical thinking
