Job title:
Founding Engineer – TypeScript
Job type:
Permanent
Salary:
Competitive + Meaningful Equity
Role Location:
London (onsite, early-stage startup environment)
The company:
Backed by tier-1 investors (including early backers of Figma, Revolut, Notion, Hugging Face, Vercel, Wise) ?
Role And Responsibilities
I'm looking to recruit a
Founding Engineer (TypeScript)
to join a 3-person core team at an early-stage startup rethinking how people understand the web. This is a rare chance to join at the ground floor: you'll shape
product, engineering, and culture
in equal measure.
What You'll Be Doing
* Building and scaling our core product in TypeScript, across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
* Designing and evolving the application architecture for speed, scalability, and flexibility.
* Solving complex data and systems engineering challenges to turn noisy, dynamic sources into a product people love.
* Wielding the most powerful machines of our time, weaving together technologies into intuitive, elegant experiences.
* Dropping into Rust where performance demands it.
* Writing a lot of code: come in on Monday, make a plan, ship and demo on Friday.
* Collaborating closely with the founder and another founding engineer to move fast, learn fast, and set the foundations of the company.
Job Requirements
* 3+ years' experience building and shipping production systems (startup or high-growth environment strongly preferred).
* Strong TypeScript expertise across frontend and backend (bonus: infra experience).
* Comfort working in a monorepo environment.
* Solid grounding in SQL and modern data practices.
* Track record of pragmproblem-solvinglving and shipping at speed.
* Excited by early-stage ambiguity and the opportunity to own big pieces of the product and company direction.
Benefits
* Competitive salary + meaningful equity.
* Outsized influence over company direction, culture, and engineering practices.
* Work alongside ambitious builders (ex-founders and founding engineers).
* Backing from top-tier investors and angels who've supported some of the world's most iconic startups.
* Startup culture optimised for speed, learning, and product impact — no bureaucracy, just building.
If interested, apply to be considered
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