AI Engineer (Elixir, LLMs) - Sona, London, Flexible Hybrid

Introductory paragraph

At Sona, we’re building the ‘self-driving car’ of workforce management software for the frontline, a huge and underserved group of industries. Our all-in-one platform is built primarily in Elixir and LiveView (with a React Native mobile app) and combines everything companies need to manage a front-line team with dedicated features designed to empower their staff.

About us

My name: Patrick Wild
My position: Head of Talent
Company name: Sona
Company website: getsona.com
Company headquarters (country): UK
Company info and history:

3 billion people across the world work in frontline jobs. Yet, despite rising costs and staff shortages, frontline organisations are still left to choose between paper, Excel, and WhatsApp, or decade-old workforce management solutions to take care of the most important part of their businesses - their people.

Enter Sona: the next generation of AI-native, frontline workforce management. We’ve built an end-to-end platform covering Scheduling, HR, Payroll, and Communications that gives the largest frontline organisations everything they need to staff more intelligently and empower their teams.

In under 4 years, we’ve already made a deep impact on the lives of over 100k frontline workers and the operation of their organisations, grown the team to 110+, and secured over $50M in funding from notable VC’s, including Felicis, Northzone, Gradient Ventures (Google), SpeedInvest, Antler, and Notion Capital, plus notable angels like Tom Blomfield (Monzo).

We’ve used Elixir since day one with a stack built primarily around Elixir, with a Phoenix LiveView web frontend (PETAL stack) and a GraphQL API for communicating with our React Native mobile app.

About the job

Job title: AI Software Engineer
Job description: Jobs
Salary range: £90k-120k (with flexibility where required)
Qualifications or experience required: Senior+ level software engineer with experience (professional or serious personal) building LLM-powered products using Elixir.
What the successful job applicant will be working on:

This role is our first engineering role dedicated exclusively to building agentic AI features for Sona. You will be immersed in real-world customer problems and work directly with our CEO, CTO, and Director of AI to rapidly develop and implement cutting-edge LLM-powered prototypes.

Position on remote work

Remote job: Partially - we’re looking for candidates who are excited about spending substantial amounts of time every month (up to 1 week) brain-storming and iterating in our London office, working remotely the rest of the time.
Remote restrictions: Candidates must be based in the UK or wider Europe and aligned to the hybrid approach above
Remote leeway: -
Any other notes about your position on remote work: Generally, we’re a company that values impactful in-person work. You’ll never be expected to come to an office just for the sake of being in the office.

About the interview process

• Intro call (30 mins)
• Engineering Manager Interview (30 mins)
• Technical Interview (60mins - no take-home or live coding challenge)
• Product Interview (45mins)
• CTO Final (30mins)

Further info

Please contact patrick@getsona.com with any questions (faster replies by email than on the pose) or apply via the job posting. Agencies not considered at this time.