Founding Software Engineer

Founding Software Engineer – London – Hybrid (1 to 2 days a week) A London AI startup building the bridge between how non-technical teams already work and the agent-powered systems that can do that work for them. The product watches how a business operates, learns its processes, and automates them without an engineer in the room. Founded by two operators, who have scaled and exited businesses before. V1 is live, paying customers are in, and the £375,000 seed just closed. Burn is low, runway is healthy. The vision is a strong, profitable business, a sensible exit, and decent lives in the meantime. You would be the first dedicated software engineer. This is a senior role with real ownership, real decisions, real accountability. The founders are technically capable and one of them built the product himself, but they need to move into growth. This isn’t a 9-5 and it’s not 9-9-6. You are judged on your output. Location: London, hybrid (1 to 2 days a week in a co-working space) Salary: up £100,000 + equity Interview process: Intro call with AG TalentIntro call with one of the founders. Discuss the company, role, your experienceWhiteboarding with another founder. Two problems shared in advance, one internal, one customer-facingFinal conversation with both founders The role: Own the technical direction of the platform. Architecture decisions are yoursTake a PHP/Laravel codebase built at pace and evolve it into something robust and scalable. This will likely be a migration to TypeScript.Own the LLM layer across OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic, deciding what goes where and what comes nextBuild with and alongside AI. Agents, LLMs, and automation are core to the product and to how you workSpeak to customers directly and translate what you hear into product decisions Your experience: Senior-calibre engineer who has owned outcomes end to end, ideally inside a startup under around 60 peopleReal production AI experience. You have shipped LLM features into a real product with real users and dealt with what broke.PHP, ideally Laravel, otherwise Symfony. Does not need to be your current language. If you used it earlier in your career and the concepts are still familiar, that is enoughTypeScript and JavaScript exposure useful but not heavy. The platform is backend weightedWorkflow orchestration or agentic systems experience is a strong advantageYou want autonomy and accountability, not structure and sign-offYou like the idea of a sustainable, profitable business more than the idea of a billion pound valuationComfortable shipping AI-assisted code and pushing the boundaries of what that enables Apply or DM for more information