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Founding Engineer | Venture Backed AI Startup
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Founding Engineer | Venture Backed AI Startup
A rare opportunity to join a high-growth AI startup from the ground floor 🚀
Founded by experienced entrepreneurs, operators, and property investors with a track record of building successful businesses, they're now tackling one of the world's largest and most outdated industries through AI.
Backed by leading investors and already gaining strong commercial traction, they're building an AI-native platform designed to automate complex workflows in one of the oldest markets in the world!
This is not a typical engineering role - As one of the first engineering hires, you'll have significant ownership over the technology, product, and technical direction of the company while helping build systems that could transform how a global industry operates.
You'll work directly with the founding team to architect, build, and scale the core platform from the earliest stages through to international growth.
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They're looking for ambitious builders who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly, and want to help create a category-defining company from the ground up.
What they're looking for
- 🎓 Strong academic background
- 🚀 Experience building products at high-growth AI startups or scaleups
- 🤖 Hands-on experience building AI-powered applications and agentic workflows
- 🛠️ Strong backend engineering skills with Python
- 🧠 Founder mentality with the ability to take ownership beyond code
Requirements
- ⚙️ 3+ years commercial Python experience with strong FastAPI expertise
- ⚙️ Experience building and deploying LLM-powered systems in production
- ⚙️ Strong understanding of backend architecture, APIs, databases, and scalable systems
- ⚙️ Experience with RAG, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks
- ⚙️ Proven ability to own technical decisions and ship products end-to-end
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Nice to have
- Experience with voice AI, telephony, or real-time communication systems
- Experience integrating complex third-party APIs and platforms
- Previous startup, founding engineer, or technical leadership experience
Package
- 💰 Very competitive base salary
- 📈 Up to 1% Equity
- 🚀 Opportunity to build a category-defining AI company from day one
- 🏗️ Significant ownership and influence across product and technology
- 🌍 The chance to solve large-scale, real-world problems using cutting-edge AI
For engineers who want to build a company rather than simply work for one, opportunities like this don't come around often
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