Software Engineer
Understanding Recruitment
In this role you will help build a cutting-edge AI-backed product for financial modelling, starting with an Excel add-in and expanding toward a comprehensive AI operating system. You will own features end-to-end across the stack, from Rust services to frontend, collaborating with a small, elite team. Expect high performance workloads, tight feedback loops with design, and significant technical ownership as the product scales. This is a rare opportunity to shape a new category at the intersection of AI and strategic decision-making.
Pay / Benefits- salary up to 250k DOE + equity
- onsite London office 5 days a week
- relocation sponsorship
- opportunity to become a technical leader
- small elite engineering team
- build from ground up in ambitious environment
- Own features end-to-end across the stack (Rust services, backend, frontend)
- Leverage modern AI tools and models to ship high-quality software quickly
- Develop and improve AI agents, includes harness, tools and context optimization
- Write performant code, optimise queries, and reduce allocations
- Maintain and enhance backend infrastructure and CI pipelines
- Debug low-level issues and optimize system performance
- Collaborate with design to ensure polished, consistent user experiences
- Take increasing technical ownership as the product scales
- Top-centile engineering capability
- Exceptional problem-solving and strong software fundamentals
- High agency, determination, and ownership
- Ability to move quickly, learn new technologies and wear multiple hats
- Strong interest in AI and experience with modern AI coding tools
- Ability to work across the stack
- Genuine passion for building great products, not just writing code
- High agency
- Curiosity
- Product-mindedness
- Rust (preferred) or other low-level language (e.g., C++)
- TypeScript
- React
Reference: WJ-747_30384833