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Founding Engineer

United Kingdom - London
Posted: 08/05/2026

Salary: £120K per Year
ID: 37363_BH

Location: London / Hybrid

Salary: £80,000-£120,000 + Equity

We're partnering with an exceptionally exciting early-stage AI startup building workflow automation software for a highly regulated US industry.

The business is already generating strong recurring revenue, growing rapidly month-on-month, and is now hiring one of its first UK-based engineers as it scales internationally.

This is a genuine founding-level opportunity to work directly with the leadership team, own meaningful product areas from day one, and help shape both the product and engineering culture during a critical stage of growth.

The Opportunity

This role is ideal for a strong product-minded engineer who enjoys:

• Solving ambiguous problems
• Moving quickly
• Taking ownership
• Working across the full stack
• Building practical AI-enabled products
• Operating in a highly autonomous environment

The team values execution, initiative and adaptability far more than rigid specialisation.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and shipping new product features
• Owning product areas end-to-end
• Improving system reliability and scalability
• Working directly with founders on engineering priorities
• Helping shape architecture, tooling and technical direction
• Solving operational and workflow challenges using modern AI tooling

• Python
• TypeScript
• React

What They're Looking For

• Strong full-stack engineering capability
• Experience building production software
• High level of autonomy and initiative
• Product-minded approach to engineering
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Excited by AI, automation and early-stage product building

• Genuine founding-level impact
• Meaningful equity
• Fast-growing business with real commercial traction
• Direct access to founders and decision-making
• Small, highly capable team
• Opportunity to shape both product and engineering culture