{"id":13986,"date":"2026-06-23T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sr2rec.com\/job\/founding-engineer-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:00:24","slug":"founding-engineer-2","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/sr2rec.com\/en\/job\/founding-engineer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Founding Engineer | London | Hybrid | AI Product | \u00a3100k-\u00a3120k + generous equity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Most early stage startups are building another workflow tool, dashboard, or productivity platform. 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You&#8217;ll work directly with the founders to take a product from concept to reality, owning everything from architecture and infrastructure through to AI workflows, data pipelines, and customer facing applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Think large scale signal ingestion, entity resolution, AI powered synthesis layers, real time data processing, and turning huge volumes of noisy information into something a customer can actually act on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">What you&#8217;ll be doing:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"direction: ltr;margin-top: 0in;margin-bottom: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Building a product from 0 to 1 alongside the founders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Designing and developing full stack applications using modern JavaScript and Python\/Node.js ecosystems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Building AI powered workflows and intelligent data processing systems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Working directly with customers to understand problems and shape solutions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">Making key architectural decisions that will influence the long term direction of the business<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;vertical-align: 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