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Founding Product Engineer at Nexcade AI

Join a high-growth London AI startup as a Founding Product Engineer and build the agentic infrastructure automating global freight forwarding. With $8.5M in seed funding and 40% MoM growth, this team is replacing manual email chaos with intelligent automation for giants like XPO. You'll own the stack from React to Python, shipping AI agents that solve real-world logistics bottlenecks. If you're a high-agency builder ready for a $150k-$250k equity stake and the chance to shape a 0-to-1 product alongside elite founders, this is the definitive role for 2024.

About this role

Role overview

Join an elite team automating complex, exception-heavy workflows in logistics. As a founding engineer, you will own the end-to-end development of AI-driven products that convert chaotic unstructured data into automated workflows. Working directly with founders, you’ll shape the architecture and iterate rapidly to solve mission-critical problems for global freight giants.

About the company

Nexcade AI

Nexcade AI

SoftwareLondon, United KingdomPre-Seed (VC-backed)

Venture-backed AI startup with $8.5M seed funding building agentic systems for global freight forwarding

Backed by Connect Ventures, MMC Ventures, Entropy Industrial Capital, Inovia Capital, Charlie Songhurst, Keith Wallington.

What you'll do

What you will do

  • Prototype and ship full-stack features using React, TypeScript, and Python, moving from idea to production deployment at high velocity.
  • Design and optimize scalable APIs and cloud architectures using Temporal for orchestration and PostgreSQL to support sophisticated AI agents.
  • Work directly with customers to understand real-world logistics bottlenecks and translate those insights into intuitive, performant UI/UX solutions.

Who you are

Who this is a fit for

  • 4-8 years of experience building production-grade systems at high-growth tech companies, with strong proficiency in Python and modern React.
  • Proven track record of shipping AI/ML features, specifically working with LLM orchestration, autonomous agents, or OpenAI/Anthropic integrations.
  • Exceptional product intuition and high agency; you are a self-driven builder who prioritizes user experience and first-principles thinking over technical over-engineering.

Why this role

Why this role is remarkable

  • Rare founding-team opportunity at a high-growth startup seeing 40% month-over-month traction with enterprise customers like XPO and Zencargo.
  • Direct impact on a massive global industry by building autonomous AI agents that replace manual email and WhatsApp coordination with intelligent automation.
  • Generous founding equity package valued at $150k-$250k alongside a top-tier base salary and a high-agency, low-meeting culture.

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