Product Engineer

Company: Understanding Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will help build an elite AI-driven financial modelling product. You will work within a small, high-caliber team to tackle hard performance and infrastructure challenges at scale. You’ll shape the architecture and engineering culture from the ground up while delivering rapid, end-to-end solutions. The opportunity combines cutting-edge AI tooling with high-performance systems to define the next generation of financial analysis.

Pay / Benefits

  • significant equity
  • onsite 5 days per week in Central London
  • visa sponsorship available

Responsibilities

  • Own problems end-to-end from conception to delivery
  • Build high-performance systems using Rust and TypeScript
  • Work with AI agents, LLMs, and AI-native tooling
  • Ship rapidly using specialized tooling like Cursor and Claude Code
  • Solve difficult performance and infrastructure challenges
  • Shape product, architecture, and engineering culture from the ground up

Key requirements

  • Exceptional technical ability / top-centile engineering talent
  • Experience with low-level, high-performance or complex systems (C++ or Rust)
  • Thrives in autonomy and ambiguity
  • Startup, systems, AI tooling or competitive programming experience is a plus
  • autonomy
  • ability to work in ambiguity
  • self-driven collaboration
  • Rust
  • C++
  • TypeScript

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Posted: October 8th, 2026