Lead AI Native Engineer
We get AI into how your teams build software, hands-on, across the whole development lifecycle.
re:cinq is a hands-on engineering consultancy. We don't reimagine your journey, we build the system with you and we leave you owning it. A Lead AI Native Engineer is the person who makes that happen on the ground: shaping what gets built, building it with coding agents, and changing how a client's engineers work day to day. You operate as engineer, product owner, and tech lead at once.
Own delivery end to end. Take a validated use case from prototype to a production system and then hand back the keys.
Run it like a product owner. Turn a fuzzy business problem into a sequenced backlog, write the stories, and decide what ships and what waits.
Build at the top of the ladder. Orchestrate multiple coding agents in parallel, work spec-driven, wire up MCP, and stand up software-factory patterns where they pay off.
Set the engineering bar. Test coverage, CI/CD, observability, and the validation harness that agent output is judged against. AI amplifies the system it lands in, so the system has to be sound.
Lead the behaviour change. Teach client engineers to work AI native, train the trainers, and make the new way of working stick after you leave.
Push back on hype. Say no to the demo that won't survive production, and explain why in language a CTO and a junior dev both follow.
Three things at once, and strong at all three.
You've led engineers, not just projects. You set technical direction, mentor, and own the outcome in front of a client.
You own a backlog end to end. You translate business goals into stories, prioritise ruthlessly, and decide what's in and what's out.
You run agents in parallel, spec-driven workflows, MCP, running or building a software factory.
You write the code that goes to production. No slideware handovers.
The client keeps the keys, and so do you. We build for the handover from day one.
Budget and space to stay at the frontier of AI tooling, because it moves every month.
Every engagement makes the next factory better. The advantage is built, not bought.
Think you're the right person for the job?
Send a short note and links to work that shows how you build with agents. No cover-letter theatre.