Founding Engineer

We’re hiring a Founding Engineer to join a small, elite team building mission-critical AI systems from the ground up.

This is a true 0*1, founder-mentality role - ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, owns problems end-to-end, and has already shipped production systems with real user traction.

The company is a Series A business modernising an $11T alternative investments market that still runs on heavily manual, legacy processes. The platform is already processing $5B+ in transactions and is backed by top-tier investors including Google Ventures and Y Combinator.

The Role

You’ll sit at the core of the engineering team building AI systems that replace manual operational workflows with scalable automation.

Key responsibilities:

• Build and deploy AI-powered agents to automate ingestion, parsing, and standardisation of complex financial documents

• Own end-to-end system architecture (design, build, deploy, operate)

• Lead consolidation of multiple engineering systems into a unified, scalable platform

• Improve CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment velocity and system reliability

• Work directly with operations teams to map manual workflows into automated systems

• Own production systems handling real financial data and live customer workflows

Tech Environment

• Python

• Angular

• React

• Express.js

• PostgreSQL

• AWS

The team care far more about engineering ownership, product thinking, and production experience than matching every technology exactly.

• Proven experience shipping 0*1 products with real production user traction

• Strong backend or full-stack engineering background

• Experience building and deploying AI systems or agents into production

• Startup background (Seed * Series C preferred)

• Strong system design ability - scalable architecture, edge cases, reliability

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity with founder-level ownership

• Track record of shipping quickly and iterating in production environments, Most likely someone who has:

• Worked in early-stage startups or accelerator environments

• Built and shipped production AI / backend systems end-to-end

• Operated with founder-level ownership (not just feature delivery)

• Strong opinions on system design and building for scale

• Experience turning messy operational problems into working systems