AI Technical Lead — Part-Time Contract
Location: London, with remote work and occasional in-person meetings
Commitment: Initial paid technical review, followed by approximately one day per week
Indicative rate: £500–£650 per day, depending on experience and agreed scope
About TextBet
TextBet is a UK-licensed bookmaker developing AI-powered messaging and automation for our betting service. We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on AI technical lead to work alongside our existing developers, provide technical direction and help improve delivery and reliability.
Engagement Details
The engagement will begin with a review of the current codebase, architecture and chatbot workflows. You’ll identify what’s working, prioritise improvements and help the team establish a realistic delivery plan. Ongoing support is expected to require approximately one day per week, with flexibility to spread that time across code reviews, technical discussions and troubleshooting.
Your work will include:
- Reviewing important design decisions and code changes, particularly around Claude integration, backend systems and APIs.
- Helping improve conversation handling, pricing lookups, confirmation flows and handovers to our team.
- Checking how the system handles ambiguous requests, failed integrations, message retries and duplicate requests.
- Working with our developers to agree clear priorities, resolve blockers and define acceptance criteria.
- Reviewing tests and release readiness, and providing hands-on help with critical issues where needed.
- Giving the founder clear, concise updates on progress, risks and next steps.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Strong commercial software engineering experience, particularly in backend development and API integrations.
- Experience building and maintaining applications using Claude or comparable large language models.
- Experience reviewing code, making architecture decisions and supporting other developers.
- A practical understanding of automated testing, monitoring and reliable production systems.
- The ability to explain technical recommendations clearly to both developers and a non-technical founder.
- Experience with messaging platforms, betting, payments or other systems where transaction accuracy matters would be valuable.
Please apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile, a brief description of relevant projects and your contribution to them, your availability and your proposed day rate.