SR2
Founding Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £100,000 - 120,000 per year
Requirements:- Experience building data-intensive products or platforms
- Comfort operating across both frontend and backend systems
- Exposure to AI products, LLM integrations, or intelligent automation workflows
- Someone who enjoys ambiguity, autonomy, and ownership
- A builder who wants meaningful influence over product, technology, and company direction
- Building a product from 0 to 1 alongside the founders
- Designing and developing full stack applications using modern JavaScript and Python/Node.js ecosystems
- Building AI powered workflows and intelligent data processing systems
- Working directly with customers to understand problems and shape solutions
- Making key architectural decisions that will influence the long term direction of the business
- Owning infrastructure, deployment, scalability, and reliability from day one
- AI
- Backend
- Frontend
- JavaScript
- LLM
- Python
- NodeJS
More:
We are a stealth mode startup building an AI powered intelligence platform designed to help organisations identify, understand, and respond to complex external risks. Our founders bring deep expertise from intelligence, risk, and financial services, and we have already secured strong early market interest. This is our first engineering hire, based in London in a hybrid setup, and offers the opportunity to shape both the product and engineering culture from day one while working closely with the founders on an important product with generous equity and a £100k-£120k salary range.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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SR2
City of London
IT
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£110,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 83% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks