About us
We’re the team behind digital retailer Very .
Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.
And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.
If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨
About the team
This role sits within our Agentic Platforms team — one of the most exciting and forward-looking squads in Platform Engineering right now.
We're building the AI infrastructure that will underpin Very's next generation of intelligent products and experiences. This is a greenfield space, which means real influence: you'll help define how we architect, build and operate agentic AI platforms at scale.
About the role
This is one of the most technically demanding and impactful engineering roles within Very.
You'll be the technical authority on agentic AI platform architecture — the person the squad turns to for leadership, guidance and decisive direction. Working closely with our Senior Engineering Manager, AI Technical Product Owner and Performance Unit Architects, you'll shape both what we build and how we build it.
You'll have the opportunity to tackle challenges that simply don't exist in smaller organisations. From designing AI gateways and LLM integrations to building the cloud-native platform foundations they run on, you'll be solving problems that have a tangible impact on the business and the customers we serve.
What makes this role particularly exciting is the depth of ownership. You'll remain hands-on with the code while defining engineering strategy, championing best practices and driving technical excellence across the squad.
You'll be shaping the future of AI engineering at Very by:
Designing, building and evolving our Agentic AI platform — spanning frontend tooling, AI gateways and backend LLM integrations — with a focus on reliability, security and scale
Acting as the technical decision-maker for all AI platform architecture within the squad, setting the patterns and practices others will follow
Leading code reviews, system design sessions and technology spikes that push the platform forward and raise standards across the team
Working directly with the AI Technical Product Owner to translate requirements into clear, prioritised technical deliverables
Owning system SLAs, metrics and monitoring for the platforms under your care — and leading RCA investigations when things don't go to plan
Driving improvements to our CI/CD pipelines and championing DevSecOps practices across the squad
Coaching and mentoring engineers across the squad — from junior to senior — growing their AWS and Terraform capability through hands-on guidance
Collaborating with Performance Unit Architects and Engineering Managers to ensure the AI platform stays aligned with the wider technology roadmap
Proactively managing technical risk and tech debt, shaping the long-term evolution of the platform's architecture
Sharing your expertise internally and externally, helping to build Very's engineering brand and reputation
About you
You'll be an experienced cloud platform engineer with deep, hands-on expertise in AWS and Infrastructure as Code — and you'll have taken that expertise into the world of AI.
You'll bring serious technical depth alongside the ability to influence, mentor and inspire. You're passionate about engineering excellence and you care about the people around you as much as the technology itself.
We're particularly interested in engineers who have:
Experience in a Senior or Principal AWS Platform Engineering role
Hands-on Infrastructure as Code development using Terraform — you should be expert-level and proud of it
Proven, hands-on experience designing, building and maintaining…