Software Engineering Director

Who you are

• 10+ years of professional programming experience in backend and application environments
• 2+ years of experience directly managing engineers
• Expert-level proficiency in Python or Typescript/Javascript; strong working knowledge of modern backend & web application frameworks like FastAPI, Node, React, or Rails
• Direct experience applying multimodal (audio, image) AI in content production or generation workflows
• Hands-on experience building AI and agent-powered features using frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and others beyond text generation use cases to include multimodal (image, audio) generation
• Direct experience refining product requirements in collaboration with a product owner
• Regular use of coding agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, or Pi as part of the daily software development workflow
• BS/BA degree in related field
• Based in London or surrounding areas and able to work on-site 1-2 days a week in the London office
• Direct experience building interactive realtime multimodal agents acting over long sessions & context windows
• Experience with dynamic video content generation fusing motion graphics and audio
• We realize applying for jobs can feel daunting at times. Even if you don’t check all the boxes in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway

What the job involves

• As a Software Engineering Director, Multimodal AI Products, your responsibilities will center around our multimodal AI products & features which serve buyers & sellers in the software marketplace. You’ll lead the core team behind these products
• The team will enhance G2’s content generation systems to take advantage of the advancements in multimodal agents & AI models’ image and audio capabilities, and help bolster quality. You will use agentic engineering techniques and leverage “agent-first” ways of working to deliver your products and features
• Build new products and features [80%]:
• Contribute across the full software stack to deliver agent-driven user journeys to production, owning implementation quality from architecture to release
• Design and build features driven by frontier models, with prompting, context, tools, and model reasoning to generate visual and audio experiences
• Apply software engineering and system design principles to produce solutions that are observable, maintainable, scalable, and production ready
• Validate solutions against functional requirements using evals and tracing to ensure content and experience quality is measured and monitored through metrics measured in CI and production
• Help drive product definition: ideate, explore, and prototype with stakeholders, then cut down possible options to arrive at deliverable, but well-rounded solutions
• Help conceive and ship features & MVP iterations early in the product definition phase that directly advance high-visibility organizational goals
• Partner with product owners to identify what technology makes possible, and what makes implementing a given product or feature hard. Bring that perspective into project scoping and prioritization
• Lead a group of engineers and be a source of wider influence [20%]
• You will facilitate the growth and mentorship of a core team of engineers, and be a source of technical leadership and subject matter expertise on multimodal AI for them

The application process

• G2 incorporates AI-powered technology to enhance our candidate evaluation process. These tools may assist with initial application screening, skills assessment analysis, and identifying candidates whose qualifications align with specific role requirements
• While AI technology supports our recruitment workflow, all final hiring decisions remain under human oversight and judgment
• Your Choice Matters: If you would prefer that your application be reviewed without AI assistance, you can opt out
• Choosing to opt out will not disadvantage your application in any way—we will ensure your materials receive a thorough manual review by our hiring team

Benefits

• 22 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
• Work from home opportunities