# Engineering Lead

About Kernel Agents are starting to sell, buy and operate on behalf of companies. But before an agent can close a deal, qualify an account, route a lead or assess risk, it has to answer a basic question: which company is this? Today, that answer is messy, and no one answers it reliably. Business identity lives across CRMs, ERPs and third-party datasets full of duplicates, missing parent companies, stale addresses and incorrect enrichment. The cost shows up across the enterprise: sales teams miss revenue opportunities because they lack the right account context; operations teams take on avoidable exposure because risk signals are fragmented or wrong; and finance teams end up chasing, writing off, or defaulting on bad debt that should have been caught earlier. Humans have worked around that mess for years. Agents cannot. They need a reliable business identity layer they can trust. Kernel is building that layer: the business registry for agents. We issue a permanent KERN ID for every business, plus the context an agent needs to act on it. Ops, data and revenue teams at Gong, Legora, Mistral, Canva and Checkout already use Kernel on their own systems. Agents are next, and there will be

- **Id**: 3872573
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kernel-engineering-lead>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T10:23:35Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T19:22:18Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6445
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Data Quality & Observability, B2B Company & Contact Data

## Company

- **Id**: 456080
- **Name**: Kernel
- **Domain**: kernel.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kernel-9>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 229021

## Technologies

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- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
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- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Claude Code** — Optional: yes
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T15:03:41Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 73
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.816
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T21:33:27Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 229021
- **Is top pay**: yes

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