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Founding Engineer

100000.00 - 150000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted April 24, 2026
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This is a stealth-stage AI company taking on one of the messiest, most complex areas in enterprise tech. The kind most people avoid. They're rebuilding how software interacts with it… from scratch. No playbooks. No shortcuts. Just hard problems.

Job Responsibility

  • Build deep backend systems in Python that power intelligent workflows
  • build infrastructure that keeps systems running reliably
  • tackle scalability
  • design for messy real-world environments
  • work across infrastructure, product, and architecture

Requirements

  • Strong in Python
  • experience with infrastructure or DevOps
  • experience with Kubernetes
  • curiosity
  • ability to pull things apart, improve them, and build from scratch
  • experience with early-stage teams or experimenting with new tools
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