Founding Product Engineer

Global trade runs on supply chains under constant strain: geopolitics, weather, and demand shocks arrive weekly. The professionals who keep goods moving spend their days coordinating across fragmented systems, re‑keying data, chasing rates, and assembling quotes line by line. Modern agentic systems can now help handle that work. Combined with freight domain knowledge and deep integration into the systems forwarders already run, agents can do real work for humans while the customer team stays visible and in control of every step. That is what we build, and it runs today with forwarders across the UK, Europe, and North America.

How we work:

• Extreme ownership: Problems are yours end to end. If you see something broken or missing, you have the freedom and the responsibility to fix it.
• High pace: Fast cycles and rapid iteration. Debate rigorously, decide quickly, and execute relentlessly.
• Customers in the room: We build with forwarders on their live lanes and real documents. Product decisions come from that contact.
• Learning velocity: Curious, adaptable, and quick to pick things up. Hard problems require grit, and we embrace them.
• Open and direct: We win as a team. We communicate openly, directly, and with intent.

The offer:

• Salary and equity: Competitive salary with meaningful equity. Within your package, you choose your own salary and equity split, because owners should decide.
• In person, Waterloo: We work together 4+ days a week at 94 Lower Marsh, minutes from London Waterloo, with regular offsites and team events.
• Kit and health: The technology you need to do your best work, plus health and wellness benefits. Early hires shape the benefits that come next.
• Trust over process: A high‑trust culture that prioritises shipping over bureaucracy. Small, senior, high‑performance teams with audacious goals.

Open roles:

Two roles are open today. Every application is read by the founders.

Founding AI Engineer

London, Waterloo · Full‑time, in person

Build the multi‑agent systems that run quoting, tenders, rates, and bookings for real forwarders: orchestration, reliability, and the feedback loops that make agents dependable on live freight.

What you'll do:

• Develop and optimise AI agents for live freight workflows
• Design review gates, fail‑safes, and fallback behaviour
• Build the observability and feedback loops behind agent performance
• Work directly with the founders, the team, and customers on real pain points

What you bring:

• Exceptional Python and experience with LLM orchestration
• AI automation shipped and running in production
• A record of making agents reliable and efficient
• Fluency with data pipelines and integrations

Ship the surfaces where forwarders see, steer, and release agent work: full‑stack features, fast iteration on customer feedback, and architecture decisions that hold as the platform scales.

What you'll do:

• Prototype, validate, and ship full‑stack features
• Iterate on UI and UX from direct customer feedback
• Design APIs and cloud architecture for agent workloads
• Keep the platform scalable, secure, and fast

What you bring:

• Depth in the modern web stack: React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
• Strong product intuition: you think like a user
• Fast iteration and comfort with experimentation
• Experience deploying and running applications in the cloud

The roles above describe the team we know we need next. Exceptional people define roles we have yet to write. If you would raise the bar at Nexcade, we encourage you to reach out.

To apply, write to founders@nexcade.ai with your CV or LinkedIn, a few sentences on why Nexcade, and work you are proud of. We move fast and value your time. Introduce yourself. If the problem pulls you, send a short note about yourself and the work you want to do.