Lead Engineer - MLOps

Do you want to join a team working at the cutting edge of engineering sustainability? Here at Monolith, we’re on a mission to empower engineers to use AI to solve the most intractable physics problems like developing next-gen EV batteries that charge faster and last longer. With strong product-market fit, we’ve doubled in size over the last four years, are growing globally, and we have ambitious plans to expand. It’s an exciting time. To continue in our growth, we are recruiting a Lead Engineer based out of our London Office.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Lead Engineer, you will play a crucial role in leading our core tech team. In the short term this will involve driving the re-platforming efforts of our core data & AI platform powering our SaaS product. Beyond that, you'll spearhead backend & data engineering, mentor team members, and optimize software engineer practices for long-term success.

Our Tech stack: AWS and Azure, including Athena, Synapse, Spark, Kubernetes. Temporal, Python, Redis, Postgres, React and Docker.

Key Responsibilities:

• We’d expect this role to be split between 60% on the Tech side with the remaining 40% devoted to managerial responsibilities.
• Mid-low level tech design: Mid and low-level design of our technical stack in coordination with broader architecture.
• Tech leadership: Shape and promote the software engineering culture and practices by applying state-of-the-art best practices that help foster a collaborative environment and ensure continuous learning and development opportunities for the team.
• Line manage the software engineering team, including recruitment and retention strategies. Remain hands-on by actively participating in code reviews and other technical processes to stay informed on lower-level work. 

Required Skills and Attributes:

• 7 years or more of coding experience, with at least 3 years primarily focused on Python.
• Knowledge of MLOps principles and practices, especially in implementing them within production settings.
• Worked on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Worked on data-intensive products which are heavy on either volume (big data) or scale (high load)
• We're particularly excited about candidates who bring start up experience to the table, as it aligns 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 computing experience (Spark, MPI, etc)
• Experience with full stack
• Experience orchestrating workflows, particularly within distributed system environments.

Why Monolith?

Our culture is passionate, engaging and collaborative. We are genuine, we bring our true selves to work and celebrate those little quirks that make us different. We have a culture of learning, we encourage new ideas, out of the box thinkers and risk takers. We’re all human and sometimes we make mistakes, but we brush ourselves off and try again. Our culture encourages freedom, flexibility and creativity.

At Monolith our values are core to how we do business. They’re not just words on a wall, we live them every day. Our values are embedded in our internal processes so that we’re always reminded what’s important to us and we continue to grow as individuals and as a company.

Our values are:

• Bring yourself to work
• Always be curious and open
• Think like an engineer
• Work smart, not hard
• Be in this together

Our benefits & perks for UK employees:

• 30 days paid annual leave + bank holidays
• Pension with NEST
• Vitality health insurance
• Wellness allowance through Heka
• A day off to volunteer per year
• Regular socials

A few things to note:

• Monolith is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We don’t have an end date to apply for this role, but we will prioritise early applicants, so if you’re interested then please apply soon.
• Only applicants who have the right to work in the UK will be considered.
• Monolith AI is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
• If you don’t quite match everything above but you feel you can succeed in this role then we encourage your application and look forward to hearing from you.