Founding Full Stack Engineer

Verum Recruitment
E18Fa, United Kingdom
4 days ago
£80,000 – £120,000 pa

Salary

£80,000 – £120,000 pa

Posted
1 Sep 2026 (4 days ago)

Are you a Full Stack Engineer who is technology agnostic and passionate about using AI as part of the SDLC? If so, read on!

My client is an AI focused startup. They are on a mission to turn months of work into days. Not with a slightly-better tool; with a fundamentally different way of doing things. This is a founding hire, which means you're not joining a team, you're building one.

As a Founding Full-Stack Engineer, you'll be responsible for / touch everything; frontend, backend, the AI agents that are the whole point of what they are building. You'll sit shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders, digging out the kind of hard-won expertise that usually lives in someone's head, and turning it into a system that keeps getting smarter. And you'll get in front of real customers early and often, because they'd rather build the right thing slowly than the wrong thing fast.

As a Founding Full Stack Engineer, the following will apply:

  • People look at your GitHub/projects and just get it.
  • You're the kind of engineer who doesn't care what language or stack, you care about solving the actual problem, from first principles
  • You've made LLMs a real part of how you build, not a party trick
  • You like talking to non-technical people and actually enjoy figuring out what they need (as opposed to just wanting to code in a dark room)

As a Founding Full Stack Engineer, you will be a strong communicator with a keen eye for detail. A passion for using the right technologies to solve the problem is also key.

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