About this role
Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year
Requirements: Strong commercial time on the JVM stack, ideally in JavaA mid-level engineer who wants ownership and doesnt need close managementTrack record with performance-sensitive or low-latency workSound on DevOps, infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelinesAt home in an early, ambiguous startup where we take the lead and iterate Responsibilities: Build systems that need to hold up under load, where keeping things quick and stable is the genuine challengeWrite and maintain backend services on the JVM, mainly in JavaCreate clean, responsive interfaces on the front end using ReactDeliver live, continuously updating experiences for usersTake a share of ownership over infrastructure and the route to productionInfluence the wider architecture and weigh in on product directionMake heavy use of AI tooling across how we design, write and ship code Technologies: AIBackendDevOpsJVMJavaReact More:
We are a well-funded early-stage startup building a consumer platform in a fast-moving, regulated market. Funding is in place and the product is coming together, and we are hiring our first engineering team members. This is a hybrid role based in London, with remote considered for the right person and around one day a week in our central London workspace. We offer real equity, first-engineer ownership across architecture, tooling and direction, a clear path into leadership as the team grows, and a genuine investment in AI tooling with regular internal AI sessions.
last updated 36 week of 2026