Founding Engineer

This is our first engineering hire. You will work directly with the owner, own delivery end to end, and later help select the second engineer. The work covers architecture, implementation, deployment, iteration and production reliability.

What you will own

• Build reliable operational software from the data model through the operator-facing workflow.
• Design and maintain transactional PostgreSQL systems with sound constraints, concurrency handling, idempotency, audit trails and safe corrections.
• Ship production TypeScript and Node.js services, with appropriate authentication, access controls, testing, monitoring, backups and recovery.
• Observe real operational workflows, separate facts from assumptions and turn them into practical software.
• Document technical decisions and help assess and select the second engineer.

• Strong TypeScript and Node.js experience.
• Deep PostgreSQL data-modelling and transaction judgement.
• Evidence that you have owned a transactional production system through design, incidents, monitoring and recovery.
• Enough frontend product ability to ship a coherent workflow end to end.
• Direct, low-ego communication and the confidence to challenge a trade-off constructively.

Hotel, booking, payments, inventory, logistics or other vertical-software experience is useful but not required.

Location and package

The role is full-time and London-based, with working sprints in Antalya, Türkiye. Equity is included. Applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK for this role by the start date.

The selection process includes a short, paid one-day work sample using synthetic data only. It is not production work and does not involve customer data or live credentials.

Customer names and detailed product context are shared privately after NDA.

Pay: £110,000.00-£140,000.00 per year