“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood… teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
🚀 Role: Co-Founder / Full-Stack Engineer (Contract, £20-30k + Equity%)
Company: Early-stage AI startup
Location: UK / Remote-first
I’m looking for a seriously ambitious engineer to build something from the ground up.
What you’ll get
🧠 Direct access to top-tier consulting experience
* You’ll work 1:1 with someone from the McKinsey / strategy consulting world, who’s spent years inside large, complex organisations and knows exactly how broken “project management” is.
🏦 A shot at a £250bn+ market
* Project management, productivity, consulting, PMOs, workflow tools – it’s a huge, messy space ripe for disruption. We’re not building a feature. We’re going after the operating system for projects.
🤝 Real commercial access, not “build it and hope”
* I already have strong contacts into large companies who are potential buyers and design partners. Your code won’t sit in a demo deck – it’ll be in front of real decision makers.
📈 Skin in the game – equity upside
* Base contract rate is £20-30k annually, with the opportunity to take equity in the business as we hit milestones. I want someone who thinks like an owner, not an employee.
🎓 A brutal, real-world apprenticeship in startups
* No corporate fluff. You’ll see fundraising, product strategy, customer conversations, and go-to-market – not just tickets in Jira.
Who this is for
I don’t care where you studied, or if you did. I care about:
* 💻 You can ship – ideally full-stack (front-end + back-end) and comfortable playing with APIs / AI models.
* 🧪 You love building fast, iterating faster, and shipping ugly v1s that get better with feedback.
* 🧠 You’re a bit of a cracked engineer – obsessed with how things work, tinkering nights/weekends, shipping side projects for fun.
* 📚 You learn insanely fast. If you don’t know something today, you’ll have a working prototype by the weekend.
* 💥 You’re ambitious – you want your work to matter, not just “get experience”.
This will suit you if you’re early in your career, hungry, and want to compress 5 years of learning into 1.
What you’ll actually do
* Work with me to turn ideas and workflows into real product – from Figma-ish sketches to production.
* Build scrappy but solid MVPs: integrations, dashboards, automations, agents.
* Experiment with LLMs, embeddings, tooling around email/calendars/docs.
* Help shape the product: UX, features, trade-offs – your opinion will genuinely matter.
What this is not
* This is not a comfy grad scheme.
* This is not a role where you wait for a manager to tell you what to do.
* This is not for people who want work/life “balance” more than they want growth.
How to apply
* Click apply and share your resume (least important)
* DM Links to anything you’ve built – GitHub, a scrappy demo, side project, even a Notion write-up (most important)
If you’re an ambitious builder who wants to aim at something big – and you’d rather be at sea than on the shore – I’d love to hear from you. 🌊