Senior AI Native Engineer
We change how engineering teams build software with AI. Our engineers work alongside yours, in your codebase, until the new way of working sticks.
re:cinq is a hands-on engineering consultancy. We build the system with the client's engineers, and they own it when we leave. A Senior AI Native Engineer makes that happen in the code. You build the shared context, harness and validation gates the client's team works on, write specs with their product owner and architect, and ship thin slices to production behind flags and gates. You spend most of your time in the codebase, supporting a Lead who owns the client relationship and the direction of the engagement.
Build the factory around the agents. Stand up the shared context, harness and validation gates a whole team runs on, and climb the ladder only as fast as each level can be trusted.
Ship to production. Take one thin slice from specification to a system that runs in production, behind flags and gates, and keep it shippable the whole way.
Hold 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.
Work spec-driven. Write the spec with the product owner and architect, make it the source the code is derived from, review what comes back, and own the quality of what merges.
Help client teams adopt the new way. Pair with their developers, analysts and product owners, train on real delivery work, and make AI native workflows stick on the team you're embedded in.
Push back on hype. Say no to the demo that won't survive production, measure success in delivered outcomes, and explain why in language a CTO and a junior dev both follow.
Hands-on, spec-driven, and deep in the agents.
You use agents daily and know how to build the harness, context and gates that turn them into a software factory.
You ship real software. You own test coverage, CI/CD, and observability, and you know what it takes to make agent output safe to merge.
You turn intent into a spec the agents can execute, review what comes back, and decide what's good enough to ship.
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, so the advantage keeps growing.
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Send a short note and links to work that shows how you build with agents. No cover-letter theatre.