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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Bluebird
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Microsoft Azure, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Data Layers, Front End Software Development, Terraform
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2858098556-founding-engineer

## About the Role

* 6+ years shipping production software across the stack, ideally in TypeScript (or something close, with real appetite to switch), on a small fast-moving team.
 * A track record of deciding on, building, and shipping things customers actually use.
 * Real product instinct. You'd rather ship something useful than something impressive.
 * Front-to-back range: comfortable in React, comfortable in the API and data layer.
 * High agency. You see the gap and close it, nobody has to ask.
 * Startup experience and a genuine appetite for early-stage risk. This is a seed company, there's a lot to build and real uncertainty alongside the upside.

Nice to have:

Real design chops, experience folding LLM features into a product, B2B SaaS/GRC/security exposure, early-stage or founding-team background.

They're especially keen on strong engineers from big tech who've also done a stint at a startup, but pedigree isn't a gate here. Self-taught and non-traditional backgrounds are welcome if you can show the agency and instinct., Owns the platform layer: multi-tenant backend services, Azure and Terraform foundations, security posture, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001). Good fit for 6+ years of deep infra experience.

## Description

You'll help decide what's worth building, design it, and ship it end to end: interface, API, agent-powered features, all of it. You own outcomes, not tickets. They're small and don't split into separate frontend, backend, or infra teams, so this role touches everything. Claude Code and modern AI tooling are part of the daily workflow, not a bolt-on.


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