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Founding AI Tech Lead

SlideSpeak

Greater London

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USD 80,000 - 120,000

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Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a technical leader to architect and scale their AI-driven presentation platform. As a key player in a rapidly growing startup, you'll lead development across the full stack, ensuring high-quality code and robust systems. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the founding team, driving the future of presentation creation while enjoying a hands-off culture that promotes autonomy and personal growth. If you're passionate about technology and want to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Company-provided laptop

Software budget

Budget for industry conferences

Quarterly team trips

Meaningful equity

Qualifications

4-5+ years of experience in technical leadership and architecture.
Expertise in Python and backend frameworks, especially FastAPI.
Strong skills in React, NextJS, and TypeScript for frontend development.

Responsibilities

Lead architectural planning and technical strategy across the full stack.
Design and build robust backend systems using Python and FastAPI.
Guide frontend development with NextJS, React, and TypeScript.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

React

NextJS

TypeScript

TDD

Cloud Platforms

Infrastructure Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

SlideSpeak is transforming how consumers and businesses create presentations with AI. Since launching just 12 months ago, our users have generated over 6 million presentations, and we're experiencing explosive growth - all while being profitable and bootstrapped. We're the fastest-growing company in the space, doubling our revenue every 3 months. We have a world-class team and product competing against legacy software that hasn't innovated in decades. The only thing that can stop us now is the team we cultivate, so we're looking for exceptional people dedicated to reimagining how people tell stories.

About the role

We've built a RAG-based AI platform that's revolutionizing how people create presentations, but our success is outpacing our infrastructure. We need a technical leader who can:

Architect systems that will handle 10x our current scale
Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed and quality
Lead development across our full stack
Write production-grade code while setting the standard for our engineering team

You will work directly with the founding team to design and build the future of presentation creation from the ground floor of a high-growth startup. We pride ourselves on having a hands-off culture with few meetings and on giving engineers a broad scope of responsibility and autonomy.

About you

You have concrete career goals. We expect you to help us hit our goals, so you also expect us to help you reach yours - without clear goals, there's a fundamental misalignment for success.
You move fast and expect your teammates to move quickly, too. We've entered a phase of growth where there is more work to do than there are people to do it - this means everyone on the team will be busy, but there are also countless opportunities to grow personally and make progress towards your goals.
You have a high quality bar for your work. As we scale our teams and customer base up, the expectations of our software rises with it.
You're looking for teammates, not coworkers - folks you can lean on to help make your goals possible while at SlideSpeak, and beyond.

Responsibilities

Lead architectural planning and technical strategy across our full stack
Design and build robust backend systems using Python, FastAPI, and advanced database frameworks
Drive frontend development with NextJS, React, and TypeScript
Guide the development of our LLM and ML services for generating creative content (images, infographics, icons, text).
Establish scalable infrastructure with microservices on GCP, AWS, and Azure
Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews
Participate in product planning and technical decision-making

Qualifications

4-5+ years experience with demonstrated leadership in architecture and planning
Expert-level proficiency in Python and backend frameworks (FastAPI preferred)
Strong expertise in React/NextJS and TypeScript
Experience maintaining/scaling larger codebases with methodologies like TDD
Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and infrastructure automation
Proven ability to design production-grade systems that scale

Nice to have

Experience with AI frameworks (LangChain, Llama Index, RAG-based systems)
Knowledge of vector databases (PGVector) and PostgreSQL optimization
Familiarity with SVG and 2D graphics development
Previous experience in fast-paced startup environments
Competitive salary: $80k-$120k based on experience
Meaningful equity in a profitable, high-growth company
Fully remote (±3hrs GMT timezone)
Company-provided laptop and software budget
Budget for industry conferences (AI Engineer, WebSummit, etc.)
Quarterly team trips across Europe and globally

Interview Process

Initial Screening (20 minutes)
Architecture & Experience Deep Dive with Founder/CEO (Case sent 4h before, 60-minute interview)
Technical Coding Challenge (Case 2 days before, interview 60 minutes)
Cultural Fit with Founder/CEO (60 minutes)

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet

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