Dex
Founding Engineer
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Founding Engineer
London (on-site / hybrid)
Title: Founding Engineer
Location: London (on-site / hybrid)
Salary: £90,000 – £180,000 plus meaningful equity
Dex is an intelligent recruiter that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex about your experience, what you want to build or solve, and your non-negotiables — we only surface the handful of roles genuinely worth your time, and manage the applications on your behalf.
Interested? Apply now by connecting your LinkedIn to Dex.
Picking the right founding role is mostly about picking the right founders, and that's hard to judge from a job ad. We know the early-stage founders we work with personally — what they're building, how they're funded, what they're like to work for — across agentic AI, compliance, foundation models for physics and more. So when we show you a founding seat, it's because we'd take the bet ourselves.
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Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
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No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
The opportunities
- Salaries run £90k–£180k with equity that's meant to matter — this is where the upside can dwarf the base.
- You'd be one of the first engineers in the building, owning whole domains from architecture to ship and setting the engineering culture alongside the founders.
- The pace is exactly what you'd expect this early. The ceiling is the point.
You could work on
- Building the product from the ground up with the founders
- Owning entire domains end-to-end, architecture through to ship
- Setting the engineering culture and standards from day one
- Wearing whatever hat the week requires, and shaping what gets built
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You may have
- Strong generalist engineering and a builder's instinct
- Comfort with ambiguity and an early-stage pace
- The appetite for the whole problem, not a slice of it
- Prior founding or early-startup experience — a bonus, not a requirement
Why apply through Dex?
We put you in front of the right founders with a proper introduction, not a cold application — and you stay in control of what moves forward.
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