Lead Engineer - MLOps

Do you want to join a team working at the cutting edgeof engineering sustainability? Here at Monolith, we’re on a missionto empower engineers to use AI to solve the most intractablephysics problems like developing next-gen EV batteries that chargefaster and last longer. With strong product-market fit, we’vedoubled in size over the last four years, are growing globally, andwe have ambitious plans to expand. It’s an exciting time. Tocontinue in our growth, we are recruiting a Lead Engineer based outof our London Office. What you’ll be doing: As a Lead Engineer, youwill play a crucial role in leading our core tech team. In theshort term this will involve driving the re-platforming efforts ofour core data & AI platform powering our SaaS product. Beyondthat, you'll spearhead backend & data engineering, mentor teammembers, and optimize software engineer practices for long-termsuccess. Our Tech stack: AWS and Azure, including Athena, Synapse,Spark, Kubernetes. Temporal, Python, Redis, Postgres, React andDocker. Key Responsibilities: - We’d expect this role to be splitbetween 60% on the Tech side with the remaining 40% devoted tomanagerial responsibilities. - Mid-low level tech design: Mid andlow-level design of our technical stack in coordination withbroader architecture. - Tech leadership: Shape and promote thesoftware engineering culture and practices by applyingstate-of-the-art best practices that help foster a collaborativeenvironment and ensure continuous learning and developmentopportunities for the team. - Line manage the software engineeringteam, including recruitment and retention strategies. Remainhands-on by actively participating in code reviews and othertechnical processes to stay informed on lower-level work. RequiredSkills and Attributes: - 7 years or more of coding experience, withat least 3 years primarily focused on Python. - Knowledge of MLOpsprinciples and practices, especially in implementing them withinproduction settings. - Worked on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure,GCP) - Worked on data-intensive products which are heavy on eithervolume (big data) or scale (high load) - We're particularly excitedabout candidates who bring start up experience to the table, as italigns closely with our dynamic, innovative culture. Nice to haves:- 2 or more years of experience managing a tech team previously -Experience working on AI-based products. - Distributed computingexperience (Spark, MPI, etc) - Experience with full stack -Experience orchestrating workflows, particularly within distributedsystem environments. Why Monolith? Our culture is passionate,engaging and collaborative. We are genuine, we bring our trueselves to work and celebrate those little quirks that make usdifferent. We have a culture of learning, we encourage new ideas,out of the box thinkers and risk takers. We’re all human andsometimes we make mistakes, but we brush ourselves off and tryagain. Our culture encourages freedom, flexibility and creativity.At Monolith our values are core to how we do business. They’re notjust words on a wall, we live them every day. Our values areembedded in our internal processes so that we’re always remindedwhat’s important to us and we continue to grow as individuals andas a company. Our values are: - Bring yourself to work - Always becurious and open - Think like an engineer - Work smart, not hard -Be in this together Our benefits & perksfor UK employees: - 30days paid annual leave + bank holidays - Pension with NEST -Vitality health insurance - Wellness allowance through Heka - A dayoff to volunteer per year - Regular socials A few things to note: -Monolith is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we valuediversity and inclusion. We welcome people of differentnationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities andperspectives. - We don’t have an end date to apply for this role,but we will prioritise early applicants, so if you’re interestedthen please apply soon. - Only applicants who have the right towork in the UK will be considered. - Monolith AI is proud to be anequal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. Wewelcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds,experiences, abilities, and perspectives. - If you don’t quitematch everything above but you feel you can succeed in this rolethen we encourage your application and look forward to hearing fromyou. #J-18808-Ljbffr