Founding Engineer

Overview

In this founding frontend role, you will own the end-to-end user experience of a cutting-edge AI-native product. You’ll shape interfaces, UX, and frontend architecture as the third engineering hire, partnering with a small, fast-moving team to deliver a category-defining product. You’ll influence product direction and work on high-performance, real-time interfaces that empower knowledge workers. This is a high-ownership opportunity at an well-funded startup on a mission to transform how people think and work with AI.

Pay / Benefits

• equity
• competitive salary up to 160k
• onsite in London
• well-funded with long runway

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance, real-time AI-native interfaces
• Craft intuitive UX for complex autonomous workflows
• Develop frontend systems using TypeScript & React
• Create product experiences users genuinely love
• Influence product direction, interaction design, and frontend architecture

Key requirements

• Experience on developer tools, web-based IDEs, or highly interactive products
• Built customer-facing or prosumer applications
• Strong product intuition and UX/UI focus
• Experience operating in fast-moving startup environments
• Desire to own frontend strategy beyond ticket implementation

• ownership mentality
• strong product sense
• ability to operate in ambiguity
• TypeScript
• React
• AI-native workflows & tooling

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