Founding Engineer

Acceler8 Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent seeks a founding engineer for its Real-Time Operations Platform in London. You will own the backend, design scalable event-driven systems and work closely with customers to translate operational lessons into product improvements.

We value top university backgrounds, startup mindsets, and hands-on experience with Python and TypeScript. Remote work is allowed only by exception; UK work authorization is preferred.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience shipping real systems to production.
• Experience with Python and TypeScript is preferred.
• Top university background and startup mindset.
• Applied AI and customer-facing infrastructure experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the backend end-to-end across the platform.
• Collaborate with customers and help hire future engineers.
• Tackle challenges in multi-tenant SaaS, event-driven architectures, and legacy integrations.
• Contribute to production-grade, resilient systems.

Job description

Founding Engineer – Real-Time Operations Platform

The priority candidates for this role areFull Stack & Agentic Engineers

You should come from a top university, with a strong start-up mindset.

The Problem

Critical infrastructure, transportation and logistics may look organized from the outside, but behind the scenes they often rely on radios, spreadsheets, emails, paper manifests, phone calls and constant improvisation.

Plans are built statically for operations that change by the minute: delays, location changes, sick calls, broken equipment and knock-on effects across the system. Humans cannot reliably manage this complexity at operating speed, so teams compensate with overstaffing and operational slack, and still miss resources when they matter most.

The Technical Challenge

This is a coordination platform, not a tool for a single industry.

The backend operates two loops over a domain-independent model oftasks, resources, events, constraints and plans:

• A reactive loop that keeps live operational state accurate as events arrive.
• A forward scheduler that produces the plan before a shift starts.

The reality is messy. Events arrive late, out of order and duplicated. Upstream feeds disconnect and replay. Multiple operators modify overlapping state simultaneously.

You'll tackle problems includingexactly-once effects on at-least-once delivery, concurrent-write conflict resolution, bounded read latency, state consistency and zero-downtime deployments.

The bigger platform challenge is handling variation. Every site, customer and eventually industry brings different source systems, event feeds, communication channels, labour rules and definitions of a task — often on infrastructure outside your control.

What We're Looking For

You'll own the backend end to end, including:

• Will work across all of the following though can be more specialized in one if they want
• Backend, DevOps, and ML/AI roles — the stack is Python and TypeScript, the environment is event-driven, the bar is production-grade.
• 2-3 years of experience is the sweet spot: enough to have shipped real things and pushed them to production safely, not so much that startup pace feels foreign.
• Applied AI and customer-facing infrastructure experience is a strong plus

This is a founding engineering role. You'll go on site, understand how the operation actually works and translate those lessons directly into the product. You'll work with customers and help hire the engineers who follow you.

Experience withmulti-tenant SaaS, event-driven architectures, distributed systems or integrations with difficult legacy systemsis highly relevant. The frontend is TypeScript, so you should be comfortable reasoning across that boundary without needing to own it.

Above all, we're looking for highly agentic engineers who move without waiting for instructions, enjoy difficult technical problems and maintain high standards when systems are live and the stakes are real.

Salary is not a constraint for the right person. The role includes meaningful founding equity and coding credits.

London-based | Remote only by exception | UK work authorization preferred

Requirements added by the job poster

• Authorized to work in United Kingdom
• 2+ years of work experience with Python (Programming Language)