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We partner with governments, cities and enterprises to improve how essential systems operate across healthcare, water, energy, telecommunications and infrastructure.\nOur work delivers proven real-world impact. We have built AI systems that help manage London’s water supply, supported telecom network planning across hundreds of cities, and developed digital healthcare platforms serving tens of millions of people across Africa. From intelligent command centers to AI-powered infrastructure platforms, we help organizations sense, analyze and act in complex environments.\nOur people are ambitious, curious and relentlessly practical. Our teams work alongside clients in the field, solving hard problems and deploying solutions that last. With colleagues across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US, we operate across the full stack - from research and engineering to deployment and capability building.\nOur mission is simple: to harness AI to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges.\nAbout the role\nWe are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our UK utilities practice. This is a permanent role. Your first assignment is building an AI-enabled situational awareness and decision-support solution on Microsoft Azure for a major UK water utility, and from there you will continue delivering across our growing portfolio of water and energy utility clients.\nOur delivery squads run deliberately small software engineering teams, so this role must be genuinely full-stack and self-sufficient: owning both the back-end services that serve model outputs and analytical risk indices, and the operator-facing web front end that puts them in front of control-room users. 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