Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
An early-stage product engineering team is looking for a senior engineer to help shape product direction from the beginning. You will speak directly with users, form hypotheses about what to build, ship production features quickly, and develop sophisticated AI agents and LLM-powered systems beyond basic prompting. The role combines product thinking, full ownership, and hands-on engineering.
Highlights
Join an early engineering team with significant influence over product direction and direct interaction with users. The role emphasizes rapid shipping, hands-on product development, and building sophisticated AI agents and LLM-powered systems as a core part of the engineering work.
Description
Senior Product Engineer (TypeScript, AI/LLM) | Shoreditch, London | £100,000 - £150,000 | Hybrid - 3 days onsite
We're partnering with Alecto, the UK's first AI-native law firm, on a mission to make the law accessible to everyone.
They're starting with conveyancing, a part of the legal industry that's slow, opaque and genuinely failing consumers: one in three property transactions fall through, and complaints run 3.3x higher than any other legal sector.
Many firms still rely on post and fax.
They're now hiring a Staff or Senior Product Engineer to join as an early member of the engineering team, someone who wants real product direction from day one rather than a backlog handed down to them.
What you'll be doing
Shaping product direction from day one, talking directly to users and forming your own hypotheses on what to buildShipping features to production within your first weekBuilding AI agents or LLM-powered systems that go beyond simple prompting, as a core part of the roleScaling TypeScript across a modern monorepo (React, tRPC, Tailwind)Reporting directly to the founder, with real influence over technical and product direction
What they're looking for
Early-stage startup experience where you've genuinely driven product direction, not just executed against a specStrong, scaled TypeScript experienceReal, hands-on experience building AI agents or LLM systems, not just using AI tools day to daySomeone who thinks in user problems first, technical solutions secondBonus: academic or applied ML experience, especially bridging research and production
Why this one's worth a look
A small team of generalists who move fast, ship often, and hold themselves to a genuinely high barReal early-stage ownership, shaping the product rather than just building to specA founder with proven, relevant experience scaling a regulated fintech businessMeaningful early-stage equity, private medical cover including dental and optical, choice of your own AI toolingA mission worth caring about: making law genuinely accessible, not just cheaper
For more information, hit APPLY and I (Jake Gardiner) will book in a GMeet with you to answer any questions you may have!
