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Founding Engineer
Location: London | Work Arrangement: Hybrid | Focus: AI Product | Salary: £100k–£120k + generous equity
About the Role
Most early-stage startups are building workflow tools, dashboards, or productivity platforms. This isn’t that.
We are a stealth-mode startup building an AI-powered intelligence platform designed to help organisations identify, understand, and respond to complex external risks. The founders bring deep expertise from intelligence, risk, and financial services, and have already secured significant early market interest.
They are now looking for their first engineering hire. In this role, you will work directly with the founders to take a product from concept through to reality, owning:
- Architecture and infrastructure
- AI workflows
- Data pipelines
- Customer-facing applications
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This includes tasks like:
- Large-scale signal ingestion
- Entity resolution
- AI-powered synthesis layers
- Real-time data processing
- Turning vast volumes of noisy information into actionable insights
Key Responsibilities
- Build a product from 0 to 1 alongside the founders
- Design and develop full-stack applications using modern JavaScript and Python/Node.js ecosystems
- Construct AI-powered workflows and intelligent data processing systems
- Collaborate with customers to understand pain points and shape solutions
- Make critical architectural decisions shaping the business’s long-term technology direction
- Own infrastructure, deployment, scalability, and reliability from the ground up
Requirements & Ideal Profile
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Experience building:
- Data-intensive products or platforms
- Applications requiring comfort across frontend and backend systems
- Products involving AI, LLMs, or intelligent automation
Equally important:
- Thrives in environments with ambiguity, autonomy, and ownership
- A builder who values deep influence over product, technology, and company direction
- Prefers first-mover problems (e.g., building the first version of something impactful) over refining the fifteenth iteration
Why This Matters
The team is small, and there is a real opportunity to shape both the product and our engineering culture from the start.
If you’d rather build the first version of something important than refine an established product, let’s talk.
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