Founding Engineer

We're Alex and Leon. We founded Whitespace earlier this year to bring the power of AI to more people and businesses. We're building AI agents for wholesale distributors of critical physical goods, from food items to industrial parts. Both our families ran wholesale businesses. Fewer than 0.1% of these businesses are using AI the way tech companies do. We're helping them unlock the potential of their businesses with our product, making supply chains run 10x more efficiently.

We're still very early in our journey. The single most important question we ask all our friends when considering an early-stage startup is: would you want to work with the founders? To that end, here's a bit more about us.

Hi, I'm Alex! Before Whitespace, I worked at BCG and was the first non-engineer hire at Ankar (an Index-backed startup), where I scaled the company to 7-figure ARR in a year. I studied Economics at Cambridge, though I spent most of my time starting projects and running societies. I recharge by playing sports and beating Leon in board games.

Hey, I'm Leon, the performative CTO at Whitespace. Before this, I founded an ed-tech startup, did freelance design, and published robotics papers in tier-one journals. Whitespace has become the place where all my weirdness and spikiness come together. We pour 120% of ourselves into our work, and the smiles we put on our customers' faces have made this the most rewarding thing I've done in my career.

Here are the four operating principles that guide how we work:

• Realize our potential: We always give our all, trust each other, reflect deeply and push ourselves out of our comfort zone so we can grow and become the best version of ourselves.
• Serve our customers: We're making our customers' lives better. They're saving time, making better decisions, and doing work that was not possible before.
• Own our work: We care deeply about our work and our craft. We own our work to the highest standards and deliver for our customers.
• Care for each other: We believe that caring for each other enables long-term success.

About Whitespace: Our mission is to make supply chains 10x more efficient. We've raised $2M from Y Combinator, Robinhood Ventures, Sentinel Global, and Inkberry to achieve this mission. Since launching this June, we're already working with 10 customers, built a loved product, and are on track to reach $1M ARR by the end of the year.

We're starting by helping wholesale distributors become more effective. Today, we're building specialized agents that solve three burning pains for them:

• Managing multi-million-dollar warehouses: Our inventory planning agents automate this for our customers and significantly reduce stock-outs and overstock.
• Communication with external stakeholders: Our email agents work 24/7 in the background, retrieving data, relaying information, and resolving issues upstream and downstream.
• Making better business decisions: With our agents, they can analyze data to inform decisions 10x more efficiently.

Who we're looking for: We are looking for a founding engineer to help us scale from 10 to 100+ customers. This means:

• You have shipped production software before.
• You are exceptional at using coding agents.
• You are obsessed with building products that people love.
• You want to wear multiple hats.
• You thrive in the chaos.
• You have a bias towards action.

What you'll be doing:

• Building world-class software: You will hold the line between AI slop and a well-crafted, thoughtfully designed product that is a joy to use.
• Working closely with customers: You will own relationships with customers as you iterate our product.
• Solving hard technical problems: You will solve technical problems that are largely unsolved by anyone in the world.

What you might want to know:

• Location: London, UK. We mostly work in person.
• Process: 30-minute intro chat, 1-hour technical interview, and a paid work-together day.