Skills

Communication Python TypeScript PostgreSQL Attention to detail Databases Next.js

Job Specifications

Full-Stack Engineer – Early-Stage AI Platform

About the role

A high-growth AI startup is looking for an exceptional full-stack engineer to join as one of their first hires. The company is building a platform that automates complex workflows for professional services, enabling users to draft documents, analyse orders, summarise transcripts, and quickly locate key information.

This is a unique opportunity to work closely with a small founding team, shipping production code from day one and owning major features end-to-end. You will engage with users to understand their needs, scope problems, develop solutions, and continuously improve them.

Responsibilities

Work across the full stack, including cloud infrastructure, backend (Python), frontend (Next.js with TypeScript), and databases (PostgreSQL)
Collaborate with users to understand workflows and requirements
Architect and scale document ingestion and processing pipelines for fast, accurate data extraction
Develop intelligent multi-step AI workflows to automate complex tasks
Design intuitive, AI-native user experiences tailored to professional workflows
Improve system performance, stability, and observability as the platform scales
Contribute to engineering culture, including best practices, mentorship, and hiring

Requirements

Self-directed and highly capable
Passionate about building outstanding products for demanding users
Excited by hard problems, with high ownership and a bias for shipping
Strong product judgement, communication skills, and attention to detail
Bonus: interest or experience in legal tech, document processing, or AI workflows

Why this opportunity is compelling

Be part of a small founding team shaping a category-defining company
Work directly with major professional services firms in the UK and US
Significant ownership and equity potential
Early influence on engineering culture and product direction

Details

Location: London, hybrid (minimum 3 days/week in office)
Salary: £100–130k, plus meaningful equity

About the Company

The Explore Group has been helping companies recruit top talent in the ever-evolving world of technology since 2005. We’ve adapted alongside the changing IT market to become increasingly specialist enabling us to support our customers on their journey through the new digital economy. Our niche divisions of Open Source, Cloud, DevOps, Mobile, Digital Marketing and Technology now provide both candidates and clients with the knowledge, market insight and advice that they need to build great teams now and for the future. T... Know more