Founding Engineer (London, UK)

Aglide; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Private medical and dental insurance

Unlimited PTO

London Office

Medical Insurance

Social Events

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

A browser automation company in Greater London seeks a software engineer to enhance its platform for managing web-based tasks. The role involves improving browser automation technology, developing secure environments, and collaborating closely with clients. Candidates should have at least 1 year of software experience, strong debugging skills, and a desire for ownership in projects. The position offers competitive pay, potential visa sponsorship, and a commitment to inclusivity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of building production software for real users.
• Strong debugging and systems thinking skills.
• Ability to work closely with customers to understand their needs.
• Ownership: one engineer handles end‑to‑end from client meeting to production release.

Responsibilities

• Improve the browser automation engine to handle complex tasks.
• Develop a secure on-device browser environment.
• Collaborate with customers to enhance their experience.
• Work across the stack and ship quickly from problem to solution, even if it means long hours.

Skills

Software experience

Excellent debugging

Customer interaction

Ownership mentality

Browser automation

Tools

TypeScript

Postgres

Electron

Puppeteer

Selenium

Selenium

Job description

Aglide’s browser automation platform is used by renowned global enterprises - from decacorn financial services scale-ups to public insurance companies - to access, manage, and secure their most mission‑critical work applications.

What We Do

Aglide combines an on‑device browser agent and a browser extension to autonomously run web‑based tasks inside our customers’ work applications. Today, it’s used for two key workflows:

• User login: Automating user sign‑in to work accounts to give security teams visibility and policy enforcement.
• Lifecycle: Completing admin tasks inside applications (e.g., creating users) to save time, reduce human error, and tighten access control.

Our platform lets non‑technical users configure these workflows for any application. We are working with companies ranging from decacorn financial services scale‑ups to public insurance companies.

Their employees depend on Aglide to access mission‑critical applications - from everyday SaaS tools to corporate bank accounts; while their security teams count on it to maintain compliance and defend against attackers - including, at times, state‑sponsored threats.

What You’ll Be Building

• Browser automation engine: Improving our core web-automation engine to make it more robust and allow it to perform more complex tasks.
• On‑device browser environment: Developing the local environment to make it reliable and secure.
• Workflow builder: Streamlining the process of building new browser automations.
• Platform controls and analytics: Giving customers more control and visibility over when and how their browser automations run.
• End‑to‑end encrypted infrastructure: Strengthening and scaling the systems that keep sensitive customer data secure.

How You’ll Build It

• Independently and confidently: You’ll have significant ownership and autonomy - meaningfully shaping our priorities through the roadmap you influence and the problems you choose to solve.
• Collaborating with customers: You’ll regularly meet with customers to understand their goals, help them get more out of the platform, and walk them through the new features you’ve shipped for them.
• Inventing the playbook: We’re one of the few companies deploying “browser-using agents” for mission‑critical work, because we’ve had to solve problems with no established best practice. You’ll continue this legacy - tackling novel challenges and turning solutions into repeatable systems.
• Across the stack: You’ll ship by contributing across everything - the dashboard, desktop app, backend services, and IaaC configurations.
• With high commitment: You’ll go from problem identified to solution shipped in days, even if it means working long nights and weekends.

Must-have

• 1+ years software experience: Looking for people who have built production software for real users.
• Excellent debugging and systems thinking: Browser automation is messy, and our workflows run on end‑user devices with end‑to‑end encrypted data.
• Desire to work with customers: Understanding their problems, validating your solutions, and spotting product opportunities.
• Desire for ownership: One engineer is responsible end‑to‑end - meeting a customer, diagnosing issues, designing a fix, and shipping to production (sometimes within a week).

Nice To Have

• Experience with our stack: TypeScript, Postgres, Electron (macOS/Windows/Linux), and browser extensions.
• Web automation knowledge: Hands‑on experience with Puppeteer or Selenium (in production or as side projects).
• Security experience: Building secure systems; comfort with zero‑trust concepts and end‑to‑end encryption.
• Identity/SSO exposure: Familiarity with products like Okta, 1Password, Entra ID, JAMF, or similar tools used by IT and security teams.

The Benefits We Offer

• Competitive salary and generous equity: We want you to have a meaningful share of the billion‑dollar company we are building.
• US Visa Sponsorship (Potential): Where practical, we can sponsor employees to relocate from London to San Francisco.
• Frequent US Travel: To keep our team aligned, we are always keen to have team members travel between offices.
• Central London Office: Work with our UK team in our central London office.
• Private medical and dental insurance.
• Socials & Offsites: Frequent dinners and events, and an annual international offsite.
• Unlimited PTO: We’ll make sure you take enough time off to sustain the intensity and commitment the role demands.

Our commitment to inclusion

Before founding Aglide, Oliver and I helped establish an organisation dedicated to encouraging people from disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to pursue careers in engineering. When we founded Aglide, we wanted to carry that commitment forward by actively working to create inclusive career opportunities.

We are proud that everyone who has joined Aglide shares this commitment and is holding us accountable to it. Aglide is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity.