AI Engineer

Nexcade; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexcade is building the next-generation AI platform for freight forwarding. You will create products that operate with customers’ teams across the entire shipment lifecycle, spanning Python, TypeScript, and React. This role emphasizes ownership and fast iteration within a technical, customer-focused team.

You will work closely with founders and customers, shaping architecture and product direction while spending significant time in London offices four or more days per week.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering.
• High agency and ownership in ambiguous problems.
• Evidence-based decision making and learning velocity.
• Interest in real-world messy operations.

Responsibilities

• Build products that do freight forwarding work with customers' teams across the shipment lifecycle.
• Work across the stack in Python, TypeScript and React.
• Own the platform runtime for thousands of concurrent agents and workflows.
• Collaborate with customers and founders to shape what gets built and deployed.

Skills

Strong fundamentals

High agency

Technical judgement

Evidence-based decision making

Tools

Python

TypeScript

React

Job description

About us

People assume the supply chain is an automated, algorithmic system. It is not. It is a large number of people acting as the glue between organisations and systems, doing work the world depends on with tools that have barely changed in decades. Nexcade builds AI agents for those people, starting in freight forwarding, a $210BN industry. Our agents are live in production with some of the leading global forwarders, pricing millions in freight every week, and we are expanding the platform deeper into the shipment lifecycle. We have raised $8.5M to make this a reality. Our founders, Dan and Tasho, spent years at Sedna and Palantir working with supply chain companies on problems like this one. We are backed by top VCs and angels who backed or founded Synthesia, n8n and other world-class companies.

How we work

Everybody codes, founders included. The whole company is technical, commercial team included, and runs on coding agents. Closely with customers and design partners, so what we ship changes how they operate. At pace. Fast cycles and quick iterations, on the product and on how we work. End to end. If you see something broken or missing, you have the freedom (and the responsibility) to fix it. In person, 4+ days a week in London. We value synchronous communication. Debate rigorously, decide quickly, execute relentlessly. Enjoy the journey. Hard problems, good colleagues.

The role

We are building the AI platform for freight forwarding and expanding our product surface, and we are hiring software engineers across product, AI and platform to do it. You will build products that do freight forwarding work alongside our customers' teams, operating across the entire shipment lifecycle. You will work across the stack in Python, TypeScript and React, and directly with customers and founders on what gets built. Everyone here works across the stack, but each engineer has a spike: the area where they set the bar for the team. You spend most of your time where yours is, and lean on your colleagues where theirs are.

Product

You build best in class products for the core jobs in freight forwarding, one job at a time. You work as a design partner with our customers to understand the work deeply, turn that understanding into a product they would choose over anything else, and feed what you learn back into the platform everyone builds on.

AI

You raise the ceiling on what our AI can do and the floor on how reliably it does it. That spans high volume tasks like classification and extraction and deep workflow tasks that run for hours. You design for performance, reliability, explainability and control, set up the gyms and evals to measure them, and build the harness that runs our agents in all of our products.

Platform

You own the foundation every product stands on: the runtime for thousands of concurrent agents and workflows, the way they communicate and scale, the controls for how they access data with permissions that hold, and the observability to see and measure all of it. You ensure the rest of the team can move fast without fear.

What we look for

A spike, with evidence. Something you have been exceptional at and proof of it. We hire on slope rather than years, so there is no experience threshold in either direction. Strong fundamentals. In the AI-assisted era, having good technical judgement is key. You have shipped production systems people depend on, seen them fail and learned from it. High agency and ownership. You take an ambiguous problem, make a call, and see it through. Humility and learning velocity. You want to get better and you change your mind when the evidence says so. Interest in the problem. You do not need a freight background, but you need to find messy real-world operations interesting rather than a chore.

Why join

You will shape the product, the architecture and the company, working alongside an engineering team from Palantir, Raft, Faculty, UnlikelyAI and Oxford. You will work directly with the businesses using what you build, on AI applied to an industry that has resisted software for decades. You will get meaningful equity, so when this works you share in it.