Dex
Founding Engineer — Product (up to £150k)
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The role
This applied AI lab is building society-level simulations for governments, helping policy teams research evidence, model population responses, and draft decision-ready documents. Backed by leading investors, their platform brings transparency and auditability to critical public policy decisions, supporting human judgment rather than replacing it.
As one of the first engineers, you'll join a small, interdisciplinary founding team. This isn't just implementing tickets; you'll shape the product, working directly with policy advisors and civil servants to turn complex workflows into software. You'll own entire features end-to-end, from data pipelines to full-stack development, with significant say in technical direction.
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The work
- Design and build end-to-end features for a decision-intelligence platform, spanning data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack components.
- Translate complex policy workflows and social science models into robust, scalable software solutions.
- Collaborate directly with policy advisors, civil servants, and legal teams to define product requirements and user experience.
- Drive technical decisions and architectural choices as an early member of the engineering team.
- Contribute to a platform that simulates population responses and drafts policy documents, ensuring transparency and auditability.
What You Bring
- 2-5 years of software engineering experience, with a strong backend or full-stack background.
- Proven ability to build scalable backend infrastructure and deploy services on GCP or AWS using infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience working directly with non-technical clients or users, translating needs into technical solutions.
- Comfort operating in an early-stage startup environment: you thrive with ambiguity and can scope your own work.
- A genuine interest in public-sector problems, policy, govtech, or the social-science aspects of the work.
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Founding Engineer roles at impactful AI companies are rare and highly competitive. Apply through Dex to get a proper brief on this specific opportunity, understand the full context, and skip the noise of cold applications. We help you stand out for roles like this that are often oversubscribed.
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