At a Glance
- Tasks: Architect backend systems and solve complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Join a pioneering tech startup with a vibrant London office and a dynamic team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Exciting chance to work closely with the CTO and influence engineering standards.
- Why this job: Be a founding engineer and shape the future of AI-driven financial systems.
- Qualifications: Experience in backend development and a passion for innovative problem-solving.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Rare opportunity for a Founding Engineer - you will be the first Engineering hire in the London office (full UK squad being built). You'll work closely with the CTO and US team (circa 15 engineers), taking ownership of complex technical problems and building the backend systems that power both the product and the wider business.
What you'll be working on:
- Architecting backend systems for high-throughput LLM interactions
- Building retrieval pipelines, vector search and multi-agent workflows
- Connecting model providers, databases and internal APIs
- Designing data pipelines, caching layers and asynchronous task systems
- Building internal tools and automation across product, CRM and finance
- Making decisions around architecture, infrastructure and engineering standards
- Shipping quickly while ensuring systems remain reliable and scalable
You'll probably be a strong fit if you:
- Have owned technical projects from architecture through to production
- Enjoy solving backend, infrastructure and systems-level problems
- Care about data modelling, reliability and performance
- Can translate commercial problems into well-designed technical solutions
- Are comfortable building APIs, workflows and internal platforms
- Thrive in fast-moving environments where engineers have real autonomy
- Are excited by the intersection of AI, financial systems and software engineering
Experience with payments, billing, usage-based pricing, developer tools, retrieval systems or data pipelines would be particularly useful.
Founding Engineer employer: Motive Group
Motive Group is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where your contributions as a Senior Software Engineer will be valued and impactful. Located in the vibrant tech landscape of the United Kingdom, we offer competitive benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies in AI-driven infrastructure. Join us to take ownership of your projects and shape the future of our autonomous software solutions.
