Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

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An exceptional opportunity for a Founding Engineer to join a highly innovative, early-stage AI start-up in Cambridge, working alongside a world-class founding team to build a next-generation enterprise AI platform from prototype to production.

This company is led by industry-leading experts whose mission is to help organisations identify, prototype, and deploy AI solutions, becoming a trusted partner for enterprise AI transformation.

You will be the first full-time engineering hire, taking ownership of a working prototype and transforming it into a scalable, secure, enterprise-grade SaaS platform. This is a true full-stack role with equal weighting across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, with significant influence over architecture, tooling, and long-term technical direction.

Location: Cambridge (1 day per week in office / 4 days remote – easily commutable from London)

Salary: £100,000 per annum

Requirements for Founding Engineer:

• Strong academic background with a degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Proven experience building production-grade web applications, ideally for enterprise or B2B environments
• Strong full-stack experience with modern technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript and Python
• Experience with React (frontend) and backend frameworks such as FastAPI or similar
• Experience designing and implementing scalable data pipelines and database structures
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
• Strong understanding of security and compliance considerations including ISO 27001 and GDPR
• Ability to work autonomously and make high-impact technical decisions in an early-stage environment
• A genuine interest in building AI-driven products that enhance human decision-making

Responsibilities for Founding Engineer:

• Take ownership of an existing prototype and evolve it into a production-ready SaaS platform for enterprise customers
• Build and maintain a secure, scalable backend capable of handling sensitive enterprise data
• Design and develop high-quality frontend interfaces that make complex AI outputs intuitive and actionable for users
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines, testing frameworks, monitoring, and observability systems
• Design and implement secure data pipelines with appropriate access controls and auditability
• Ensure the platform meets enterprise-grade security and compliance requirements (ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR)
• Collaborate directly with the founders to define technical architecture and engineering best practices
• Contribute to the development of agentic AI workflows that underpin the platform
• Lay the foundations for future engineering team growth, with scope to progress into a leadership role

What this offers:

A rare opportunity to join an early-stage AI start-up as the first engineering hire

Direct collaboration with a high-profile, deeply experienced founding team

Significant equity upside with strong potential for long-term growth

A genuinely impactful role shaping both product and technical direction from day one

Applications:

If you are a full-stack engineer looking to step into a founding role within a high-potential AI start-up, we would love to hear from you. Please send an up-to-date CV via the relevant link.

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Keywords: Founding Engineer / Full Stack Developer / Full Stack Engineer / Software Engineer / Python / React / TypeScript / JavaScript / FastAPI / AWS / AI / Machine Learning / LLM / SaaS / Start-up / Enterprise Software / Data Pipelines

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