Lead Software Engineer

Overview

In this role you will own the technical direction of a fast-growing AI startup focused on automating property operations. You will architect and build scalable backend systems, guide an engineering team, and shape how AI-native workflows are implemented. You’ll work closely with founders to set technical standards and deliver high-impact solutions that scale in real-time. This is a hands-on leadership position with a strong emphasis on owning hard problems and influencing product and architecture.

Pay / Benefits

• up to 160k salary
• equity
• London-based (4 days a week)

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable backend systems and APIs end-to-end
• Design microservice and event-driven architectures to support real-time AI workflows
• Build infrastructure powering agentic AI at scale
• Lead a small engineering team, drive delivery and review work
• Set standards for AI coding tools and agentic workflows
• Build secure, performant, and maintainable systems as the platform scales

Key requirements

• 5-8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in Node.js and NestJS
• Strong experience building RESTful APIs and microservice-based systems
• Experience with LLMs, AI agents and agentic workflows
• Experience using Claude Code in daily workflow
• Previously owned technical direction on significant projects
• Strong background in startups, AI, SaaS or automation platforms
• Strong product instinct and willingness to engage with customers

• ownership mentality
• strong technical judgement
• leadership and ability to bring engineers along
• Node.js
• NestJS
• RESTful APIs

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