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This is not about adding AI features to a traditional development process, it is a fundamental shift in how we build and ship software. Our target is Level 4 AI maturity: humans define the architecture, usage scenarios, and acceptance criteria, while AI agents autonomously write, review, and fix code.\nThe AI Native Senior Software Engineer is a senior engineering role for builders who already work this way and can set the standard for others to follow. You will be embedded within a product stream (Rex CRM or Rex PM) as its most experienced AI-native practitioner, expected to deliver production-quality software using AI coding agents as your primary development tool, and expected to shape how the rest of the stream, and over time the wider engineering organisation, works with AI agents.\nYou are not writing every line of code by hand, you are orchestrating AI agents to do it, auditing their output, and ensuring the result meets the architectural and quality standards of the codebase. This is explicitly not a “vibe-coding” role. At senior level, you also carry accountability for the technical decisions and AI-native practices of your stream, not just your own output.\nThis role requires a different profile to a traditional senior software engineer. You must have the engineering maturity to recognise when AI-generated code is correct, performant, and secure, and the judgement to know when it is not, at a level that lets you set standards others follow. You must be comfortable providing constructive, architectural feedback to AI tools the same way a senior engineer coaches a junior developer, with patience, precision, and clear expectations, and you must be equally comfortable coaching human engineers in how to do the same.\nKey Responsibilities\nAI-Native Product Development & Technical Leadership\nDeliver production-quality features and fixes within your assigned product stream using AI coding agents as the primary development tool, taking on the most architecturally significant or ambiguous work in the stream\nSet the technical direction for how AI agents are orchestrated within your stream, including standards for prompting, context management, and agent-generated code review\nCritically audit AI-generated code for correctness, performance, security, and adherence to Rex's coding standards, and coach other engineers to do the same\nOwn and continuously improve the prompts, context documents, and system instructions (AGENTS.md, Skills, and related documentation) that train AI agents on Rex's architecture, patterns, and conventions for your stream\nIdentify tasks best suited for AI-assisted development versus manual implementation, and help other engineers build this judgment\nMake or strongly influence build-vs-buy and architectural trade-off decisions within your product stream\nEngineering Quality & Architecture\nOwn the system architecture within your stream, including database schemas, API contracts, service boundaries, and deployment pipelines, and ensure AI-native workflows respect and reinforce that architecture\nLead technical design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions within your product stream, and act as an escalation point for complex technical judgement calls\nSet and maintain test coverage standards, ensuring AI-generated code is consistently accompanied by appropriate automated tests across the stream\nDebug and resolve the most complex issues across the stack, leveraging both manual investigation and AI-assisted diagnostic techniques\nDrive proactive identification and remediation of technical debt, balancing delivery speed with long-term code health at a stream level\nMentoring, Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing\nMentor other engineers in AI-native development practices, prompting strategies, and workflow improvements, both within your stream and across the wider engineering organisation\nWork closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers within your product stream to shape and deliver against roadmap priorities\nRepresent your stream's AI-native practices and progress to engineering leadership, contributing to group-wide AI development strategy\nDocument effective patterns and failure modes, and drive adoption of these across teams\nLead by example in sprint ceremonies, technical planning, and cross-stream knowledge sharing\nSupport the broader engineering team in adopting AI-native development practices through hands-on collaboration, coaching, and structured knowledge transfer\nWhat We Are Looking For\nEssential\nSeveral years of demonstrated experience building software using AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cody, Aider, or equivalent) as a primary development tool, with genuine agent-driven development workflows, not just autocomplete\nA portfolio, GitHub profile, or personal projects that evidence a mature AI-native development approach, including evidence of setting standards or mentoring others in this way of working\nDeep software engineering fundamentals: strong command of system design, data structures, API design, testing strategies, and deployment practices, sufficient to confidently audit AI-generated output and coach others to do the same\nSenior-level engineering maturity to distinguish good AI-generated code from bad, including recognising subtle issues with performance, security, edge cases, and architectural fit that AI agents commonly miss\nProven experience working across the full stack (frontend and backend), with the ability to context-switch between layers and take ownership of architecturally significant work\nA constructive and patient approach to working with AI tools, and demonstrated ability to coach and mentor other engineers, human or AI-assisted, with clear architectural feedback\nStrong communication skills and demonstrated ability to influence technical direction in a collaborative, cross-functional product team\nDesirable\nExperience with any of Rex's core technologies: PHP/Laravel, Vue.js/React.js, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, or GCP\nExperience in SaaS, proptech, or real estate technology environments\nDeep familiarity with prompt engineering techniques, context window management, and strategies for improving AI agent output quality at scale\nContributions to open-source projects or public writing that demonstrate thought leadership in AI-native software development\nExperience leading or mentoring within agile product teams with end-to-end delivery ownership\nPrior experience helping a team or organisation transition to a new technical practice or operating model\nKey Competencies\nAI-native mindset - you default to AI-assisted development, continuously refine your own workflows, and help others do the same\nEngineering taste - you can assess code quality, architectural fit, and production readiness with authority, regardless of whether a human or an AI wrote it\nTechnical leadership - you set direction, make judgement calls under ambiguity, and are trusted as an escalation point for your stream\nPragmatic judgement - you know when to use AI agents and when to write code manually, and can teach that judgement to others\nCuriosity and adaptability - AI tooling evolves rapidly and you stay current, experimenting with new tools and techniques and sharing what you learn\nOwnership and accountability - you own the code and technical decisions across your stream, whether written by 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