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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Python (Programming Language), Backend, Build Management, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815446374-founding-engineer

## About the Role

They are looking for a Founding Engineer who wants responsibility, pace, and influence. Someone who is comfortable making decisions, writing production grade Python, and working across the stack to ship meaningful features quickly., * Strong commercial experience building production systems in Python

 * Confidence working across backend and frontend when needed
 * Experience in fast paced startup or scale up environments
 * Comfort operating with ambiguity and making decisions without perfect information
 * A bias toward action, ownership, and outcomes
 * Clear communicator who collaborates well in a hybrid setup
 * Genuine motivation to work on purpose led technology with positive impact

The kind of person who thrives here

You care about what you build and why it exists. You enjoy momentum. You are not waiting to be told what to do. You see problems, take ownership, and move.

You want your work to matter, not just function. You are excited by responsibility rather than intimidated by it. You would rather help shape a product and a team than inherit someone else's decisions.

## Description

* Join as a founding member of the engineering function with real ownership from day one
 * Design and build core backend services and APIs using Python
 * Work end to end across the stack to deliver clean, intuitive user experiences
 * Make pragmatic architecture decisions that balance speed, scale, and long term health
 * Work closely with product and design to turn ideas into working software fast
 * Set technical direction, standards, and ways of working as the team grows


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