Founding Engineer

The product is already live, paid for and being used daily, so this isn’t an AI idea waiting around for a use case. The next phase is about taking something that’s working, scaling the platform and expanding into new markets., You’ll join a team of around 10 as a Founding Engineer, working closely with the founders and taking genuine ownership across product and engineering.

You’ll be:

• Building production-grade agentic AI workflows and LLM-powered product features
• Owning backend development using Python and FastAPI
• Designing APIs, services and data architecture using PostgreSQL
• Working across architecture, infrastructure, CI/CD and Azure
• Contributing across React/TypeScript where needed
• Working directly with users to understand messy real-world problems and turn them into simple products
• Influencing technical architecture, product direction and engineering standards as the company grows

There won’t always be a perfectly written ticket waiting for you. A big part of the job is working out what should actually be built, then making it happen.

• Roughly 1-5 years of commercial engineering experience
• Strong software engineering and architectural fundamentals
• Experience building LLM/AI functionality in production, rather than purely personal experimentation
• Evidence you’ve thrived in an early-stage environment or another high-calibre engineering team
• A product mindset and willingness to work across the stack
• High ownership, curiosity and comfort operating without everything being predefined

Experience with clean architecture, domain-driven design and event-driven systems would be particularly useful.

Tech4Good with teeth. The software you build will directly affect how teams operate within safety-critical environments.

You’ll get founding-level ownership without being pre-product, working alongside an ambitious technical team with paying customers and real-world validation already behind them.

There’s also significant scope to shape the architecture, product and engineering culture while the company is still small enough for your decisions to matter.

If you’re an ambitious Python Engineer who wants to build real AI products, solve difficult problems and have considerably more influence than your job title normally allows, I’d love to speak. #J-18808-Ljbffr