Founding Product Engineer

### About the Role This is a **founding Product Engineer** opportunity at a small, high-impact team building a core AI platform for financial risk and compliance. Founded in 2023 and operating in the **RegTech / AML / KYC space**, the company uses Large Language Models to automate customer due diligence workflows for fintechs and banks — think risk investigations, AML alert remediation, and document verification. You'll sit at the intersection of **engineering, product thinking, and direct customer engagement**, translating cutting-edge LLM capabilities into reliable, production-ready features. You'll work closely with the founding team (including CEO and CTO), own features end-to-end, and help shape the technical and product direction of the company from an early stage. **No visa sponsorship is available — you must have the right to work in the United Kingdom.** ### What You'll Do - Shape product direction and technical strategy as an early team member. - Build and scale the core platform and new zero-to-one initiatives. - Translate novel LLM capabilities into understandable, performant end-user experiences. - Release production code under a **"You Build It, You Run It"** ownership model — shipping, operating, and iterating end-to-end. - Work directly with enterprise customers (financial crime and risk teams) to solve critical compliance problems. - Build integrations, data infrastructure, and tooling to enable AI agents to automate compliance workflows. - Evolve schemas and structure non-deterministic LLM outputs for reliable downstream use. - Lead customer calls and take ownership of customer outcomes. - Collaborate with the founding team to mature engineering practices. - Tackle scaling challenges, navigate ambiguity, and help hire and onboard future teammates. ### What We're Looking For **Required:** - Strong track record building production software, ideally at early-stage startups or on founding teams. - Hands-on experience with the core stack: **Node.js / TypeScript, Python, React, and AWS Serverless**. - Practical experience applying LLMs or large-scale NLP models to real product problems, including structuring non-deterministic outputs. - Experience building data infrastructure and schemas for reliable, auditable downstream use. - Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in financial risk, compliance, or related regulated domains. - Ownership mindset — you ship, operate, and iterate; on-call is part of the role. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills; comfortable leading customer calls and aligning cross-functional teams. - Ability to hire and mentor future teammates and contribute to evolving engineering practices. - Right to work in the United Kingdom (no sponsorship available). **Nice to Have:** - Prior experience specifically on a founding engineering team. - Background in financial crime, AML, KYC, or RegTech domains. - Experience at companies in adjacent spaces such as compliance automation, AI tooling, or B2B fintech SaaS. ### Compensation & Benefits - **Base salary:** £75,000 – £110,000 per year, depending on experience. - **Equity:** 0.25% – 0.5% (meaningful early-stage ownership). - Opportunity to shape the company's engineering culture and hiring from the ground up. ### Location Based in **London, UK**. This is an on-site / hybrid role working alongside the founding team. Candidates must have the right to work in the United Kingdom — visa sponsorship is not available.