Software Engineer

Intellect Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking AI startup located in Birmingham is seeking a Junior Full Stack Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers a competitive salary ranging from £40k to £60k plus equity, providing an opportunity for significant responsibility and personal growth. Candidates will ship production features quickly, work closely with experienced founders, and contribute to creating innovative AI solutions that impact customers directly. Ideal for early career engineers eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity options

Direct mentorship from seasoned founders

Opportunities for rapid growth

Qualifications

• An early career engineer with less than two years of experience.
• Comfortable using LLM tools in their workflow.
• Values ownership, learning, and collaboration with technical founders.

Responsibilities

• Ship production features in your first week.
• Make meaningful architectural decisions early.
• Design backend systems integrating with LLM-driven workflows.
• Build full stack features using Python, TypeScript, and React.

Skills

Strong Computer Science fundamentals

Using LLM tools

Problem solving

First principles thinking

Familiarity with languages like Python and TypeScript

Experience in fast-paced startup environments

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

React

Job description

🚀 Software Engineer | £40k to £60k + Equity |

An early stage, well funded AI startup is transforming one of the most outdated and mission critical industries in the economy.

It is a £64B market still relying on manual checks, PDFs and spreadsheets.

The team is building AI native agentic systems that compress certification and audit timelines from months to days.

They are using modern workflows, LLM powered automation and strong engineering practices. After closing an oversubscribed pre seed round, they are now looking for a Junior Full Stack Engineer to join the founding team in Scotland.

Why this role stands out

This is not a typical junior position.

You will work directly with two experienced technical founders who have deployed enterprise AI systems across many industries.

You will

• ✨ Ship production features in your first week
• ✨ Make meaningful architectural decisions early
• ✨ Be involved in designing the company’s core AI systems
• ✨ Build for real customers with real world workflows
• ✨ Learn how to create AI systems from first principles rather than only wiring APIs together

If you enjoy being challenged and want rapid growth, responsibility and exposure, this role gives you exactly that from day one.

What you will work on

You will contribute across the stack, including :

• Building and shipping high velocity full stack features using Python, TypeScript and React
• Designing backend systems that integrate with LLM driven workflows and agentic pipelines
• Turning messy human knowledge into structured, self improving AI behaviours
• Working directly with early design partners to understand how they work and to ship solutions they will actually adopt
• Using LLM coding tools as genuine development partners for reasoning, scaffolding and accelerating your work

Everything you build will have a direct impact on the product and on customers.

Who they are looking for

• An early career engineer with less than two years of experience
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals, ideally from a strong university or equivalent depth
• A first principles thinker who enjoys solving difficult problems and is not tied to a single language
• Someone already comfortable using LLM tools in their workflow
• A high output builder who enjoys fast paced startup environments
• Someone who values ownership, learning and working closely with technical founders

Tech stack

• Languages : Python, TypeScript
• Front end : React
• Cloud : AWS
• AI : LLM tools, agentic systems, workflow automation
• Approach : First principles, rapid iteration, strong fundamentals

What you will get

• £40k to £60k salary based on experience
• Meaningful equity from the ground floor
• A rare chance to learn directly from seasoned technical founders
• The opportunity to build real AI systems that solve real problems
• Responsibility and ownership far beyond a typical junior role
• A fast moving environment where you can grow faster than almost anywhere else