Founding Engineer

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; In loco; GBP 70.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Understanding Recruitment is sourcing a Frontend Engineer for an AI-native startup. The candidate will own and shape the entire frontend experience from the ground up, delivering high-performance, real-time interfaces in TypeScript and React.

The role emphasizes strong UX/UI sensibility, product intuition, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving startup environment, with ownership over frontend strategy and architecture.

Competenze

• Strong product intuition and a sharp eye for UX/UI.
• Experience building and shipping frontend for customer-facing products.
• Ability to own frontend strategy and shape the product experience from ground up.

Mansioni

• Build high-performance, real-time AI-native interfaces.
• Craft intuitive UX for complex autonomous workflows.
• Develop frontend systems in TypeScript & React.
• Influence frontend architecture and product direction.

Conoscenze

Frontend engineering

TypeScript

React

UX/UI design

Product ownership

Startup environment

Customer-facing products

AI-native workflows

Backend basics

Design sensibility

Fast iteration

Strumenti

GitHub

Gitpod

Descrizione del lavoro

Do you have experience building and shipping exceptional UX at an early-stage startup or customer-facing product?

Are you excited by real ownership, product influence, and shaping the frontend experience of a genuinely category-defining AI product?

Experience: 5-10 years (startup or customer-facing product background are a bonus)

I’m excited to be continuing our partnership with a pre-seed AI startup building agentic AI systems that radically improve how knowledge workers think, decide, and get work done. This is not another chatbot. This is an AI-native product being built from first principles by engineers from elite technical environments (e.g. Palantir, Citadel).

As the company evolves into a more product-led, consumer-style experience, they’re now looking to hire their first dedicated Frontend Engineer, someone who can own and shape the entire user experience from the ground up.

This is a true founding-level opportunity as the 3rd engineering hire.

You’ll work directly on:

• Building high-performance, real-time AI-native interfaces


• Crafting intuitive UX for complex autonomous workflows


• Developing beautiful, responsive frontend systems in TypeScript & React


• Creating product experiences users genuinely love using


• Influencing product direction, interaction design, and frontend architecture

They’re particularly interested in engineers who have:

• Worked on developer tools, web-based IDEs, or highly interactive products (e.g. Gitpod, GitHub, Cursor-style environments)


• Built customer-facing or prosumer applications


• Strong product intuition and a sharp eye for UX/UI


• Experience operating in fast-moving startup environments


• A desire to own frontend strategy, not just implement tickets


• TypeScript


• React


• AI-native workflows & tooling throughout engineering


• Some backend experience for optionality


• Experience with PLG or consumer-style products


• Design sensibility and ability to bridge engineering + product experience

What they’re looking for:

• Strong commercial & product mindset – you care deeply about user experience and outcomes


• Comfortable in ambiguity and zero-to-one environments


• Proven ability to ship quickly and iterate with users


• High ownership mentality and startup pace


• AI-native way of working (LLMs are tools, not toys)


• Real founding-level ownership and influence


• Small, elite team that ships fast


• Well-funded with long runway


• Opportunity to define the frontend experience of a next-generation AI product


• Not another boring B2B SaaS platform… this is something people will genuinely want to use

If you’re excited by the idea of building beautiful, intelligent product experiences at the frontier of AI, this is the one.