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Bea Watton

Senior Software Engineer

€702/day
London, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Bea

Senior Software Engineer with 9 years building full-stack products across web and mobile. I specialise in AI-
driven development — both shipping LLM-powered product experiences and using AI to accelerate delivery. Alongside
hands-on delivery I lead cross-team and cross-industry technical initiatives, and I'm drawn to simple solutions for complex
problems, high-quality maintainable code, and keeping the customer at the centre of every decision. Self-taught.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Axomic / OpenAsset
    Senior Software Engineer
    December 2025 - Today (7 months)
    • Own the end-to-end user experience for the company's AI Chat — UI, BFF and backend — after the legacy chat (built two years prior) fell behind competitors and began losing users.
    • Rebuilt the chat from scratch to support a modern agentic experience including thinking states and tool use, partnering with the AI infrastructure team (RAG, LangChain, AWS Bedrock, OpenSearch; Claude Opus 4.8 & Sonnet 4.6).
    • Re-architected the chat into a standalone vertical monorepo deployed as a self-contained system (SCS) — mounted into the core product and reusable across future applications, decoupling delivery and enabling reuse.
    • Partnered closely with the Director of Engineering to take the SCS pattern from proof-of-concept to production as the first team to adopt it, and now advise other teams on integrating AI Chat into their own applications.
    • Use AI-driven development day-to-day to ship more resilient features faster.
    AI Front-End development Back-End development AWS Typescript
  • Utility Warehouse
    Senior Software Engineer
    January 2024 - November 2025 (1 year and 10 months)
    • Core engineer re-platforming Customer Onboarding from a legacy JavaScript monolith to a React SPA + GraphQL BFF + Go microservices, owning the journey from landing page through to order placement.
    • Introduced a server-authoritative Basket model making the backend the source of truth for journey state — cutting
    • front-end complexity and offloading product-availability logic to the teams that owned it via API integration.
    • Led the remote appointment system end-to-end: replaced a fragile Covid-era feature that cloned full Redux state between clients with a Basket + Appointment subscription model (GraphQL Subscriptions over HTTP SSE),
    • eliminating state-sync bugs and complex diffing. Partners reported a markedly more responsive and intuitive experience for customers.
    • Led the team's delivery of the Ofcom-mandated Broadband One Touch Switching programme, coordinating across internal teams (notably Broadband) and engineers at a competing provider to deliver compliant inter-industry switching.
    • Added Go to my toolkit and quickly became the team's go-to for it.
    Typescript React.js GraphQL Golang Web development
  • SHL
    Software Engineer → Lead Software Architect
    January 2020 - November 2022 (2 years and 10 months)
    • Joined to build a new React SPA against the existing monolith backend during a re-platform (TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js).
    • Successfully campaigned to deliver new product features on a microservice architecture and migrate legacy code onto it; owned the architecture from concept to delivery, substantially increasing velocity and the team's ability to respond to fast-changing product requirements.
    • Promoted to Lead Software Architect on the strength of the project; formed and led a team of three architecture- and security-focused engineers.
    Typescript React.js GraphQL Node.js Web development

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