AI Developer

About the Company

This is a Shopify growth agency of around 30 people that helps ambitious ecommerce brands increase revenue through conversion rate optimisation, design, development, and strategy. Alongside client work, the team is building a proprietary AI-driven platform called Atlas.

Atlas serves as the agency’s internal operating system and client intelligence layer. It brings together delivery, account management, billing, CRO, analytics, and AI-assisted decision-making in one place. The platform is already in use, expanding quickly, and is becoming a key part of the service offering. In parallel, the company is creating a broader set of internal tools and client-facing AI systems.

This is a very unusual environment: the team is not testing AI casually, but using it daily and at speed to build real products and workflows.

Role Overview

This position is not a traditional software development role. You will not be manually coding backend or frontend features. Instead, you will direct AI tools such as Cursor, Claude, Codex, and similar systems to create and ship product features quickly — at a pace that would be difficult in a conventional engineering setup.

The expected output is high: more than 10 features a week, plus ongoing improvements and fixes. You will work directly with the Operations Manager and AI Lead, who built Atlas from the ground up, helping decide what to build, running build sessions, checking your own work, and delivering functionality that is reliable in production.

As the company expands, the role is expected to grow too. Current plans include extending beyond the web platform into Mac apps, iOS apps, and a wider ecosystem of AI and internal tooling.

What You Will Do

• Share responsibility for the internal product roadmap by shaping, ranking, and planning new features together with the AI Lead.
• Lead frequent AI-assisted build sessions and turn ideas into live product updates quickly.
• Test and validate your own output, taking accountability for what gets released.
• Identify friction points in how the business runs and suggest — then build — practical solutions.
• Continuously contribute ideas; this is a role where bringing up new possibilities is actively encouraged.
• Take on more independent builds over time across web, Mac, and iOS as your confidence and capability increase.

What You Will Not Do

• Manually write backend or frontend code.
• Work in a slow-moving, ticket-heavy engineering setup.
• Wait on other people to build things that you could ship yourself.

What We Are Looking For

There is no standard title for this kind of role yet, so candidates may come from product, operations, marketing, or project backgrounds. Self-taught builders who have used AI tools to create projects for work or fun are also welcome. Formal technical qualifications are not the main requirement.

• You enjoy building and get more energy from shipping work than from long planning cycles.
• You are the type of person who immediately thinks, “we could build that.”
• You are comfortable learning by doing, including searching, experimenting, breaking things, and fixing them.
• You care deeply about quality and notice when something is not good enough.
• You move quickly, avoid unnecessary delays, and iterate fast.
• You are full of ideas but not attached to them if a better result is possible.
• You see AI as a serious and powerful tool, not just a novelty.

Useful Background

• Experience creating something with AI tools, such as an app, internal tool, or side project.
• Background in a fast-moving agency, startup, or product-led environment.
• Evidence that you can take initiative and figure things out without detailed instructions.
• Interest in Shopify, ecommerce, or SaaS, which would be helpful but is not required.

Why This Role Stands Out

• You will work at the leading edge of how businesses use AI in practice, not just in theory.
• Your work will ship quickly and be visible within days of starting.
• You will have meaningful ownership rather than a support-only remit.
• The role has real growth potential as Atlas and the wider tooling ecosystem expand.
• You will work closely with the person who built the platform and will learn directly from them.

Additional Information

The role is based in the United Kingdom and is onsite. The company is looking for someone who wants to build, ship, and improve tools at high speed within a rapidly evolving AI-enabled environment.