At a Glance
- Tasks: Build a cutting-edge decision platform using Python and React for high-stakes teams.
- Company: Join OpenHuman, a pre-seed startup backed by top European investors.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, and the chance to shape company culture.
- Other info: Dynamic startup environment with significant growth opportunities and ownership.
- Why this job: Be a founding engineer and make a real impact on innovative decision-making technology.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software development with expertise in Python, React, and data modelling.
The predicted salary is between 120000 - 150000 £ per year.
OpenHuman is a pre-seed startup backed by tier-1 European investors building a decision platform that helps high-stakes teams explore possible outcomes and understand uncertainty.
Join OpenHuman as the first dedicated product engineering hire to build the platform layer for high-stakes decision-making. This high-ownership role involves full-stack development across Python and React to create durable, trustworthy software.
Why this role is remarkable:
- Founding-level scope to build the product platform layer from first principles alongside a pre-seed team.
- Backed by tier-1 European investors, addressing complex engineering challenges in reliability, data workflows, and AI UX.
- High-impact role with meaningful founding equity and direct influence on the company’s engineering standards and culture.
What You Will Do:
- Develop core full-stack features using Python and React, transforming technical prototypes into scalable, well-instrumented product surfaces.
- Architect platform foundations including auth, permissions, and APIs to ensure multi-tenant workspaces operate safely and reliably.
- Build internal tooling and customer-facing interfaces that translate sophisticated AI workflows into clear, navigable, and trustworthy software experiences.
The ideal candidate:
- Has 5+ years of production software experience with strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, React, and modern TypeScript.
- Demonstrates expert SQL and data modeling skills, comfortable navigating data-heavy environments and modern warehouses like BigQuery or Snowflake.
- Possesses a strong taste for product engineering and the ability to ship reliable cloud systems, ideally with exposure to LLM-powered tools.
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