Founding Engineer - Climate Tech

Oho Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Founding Engineer at a climate tech startup is sought to build and scale the core platform from the ground up. You will work across backend, systems and AI, making key technical and architectural decisions and turning customer ideas into concrete products.

You will join a small, ambitious team, working closely with founders and the early customers to shape the product and the future engineering direction.

Qualifications

• Proven backend or full-stack engineering experience in production systems.
• Ability to make technical and architectural decisions in early stage.
• Comfort with ownership and ambiguity in a climate-tech startup.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the core platform from the ground up.
• Shape architecture and engineering direction with founders.
• Collaborate with customers to turn ideas into products.
• Help grow the early engineering team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full stack

Production systems

AI / data-heavy products

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

AWS

Python

LLMs

Job description

Founding Engineer | Climate Tech An early-stage technology start-up is looking for a Founding Engineer to join its small, ambitious team. You'll be one of the earliest technical hires, working closely with the founders and taking real ownership across the product, architecture and engineering direction.

The Role

• Build and scale the core platform from the ground up
• Work across backend, systems and AI
• Make key technical and architectural decisions
• Work closely with customers and turn ideas into products
• Help shape the future engineering team

About You

• Strong backend or full stack engineering background
• Experience building production systems
• Exposure to AI, LLMs or data-heavy products is a plus
• High agency, commercially minded and comfortable with ambiguity
• Enjoy working in an early-stage environment with lots of ownership

Why Join?

• Genuine positive impact across climate and infrastructure
• Founding team with huge ownership from day one
• Work directly with founders, customers and stakeholders
• Shape the product, technology and future engineering team

Founding Engineer | Climate Tech