Join Inkling as a founding engineer to build the future of education. You will own the full-stack development and AI engineering of our voice-based Socratic tutor. Working directly with founders from Cambridge and leadership backgrounds, you’ll ship high-impact features used by top UK schools to drive measurable student outcomes.
Founding Product Engineer at Inkling
Inkling is building the future of 1-to-1 education through a lifelike AI tutor that uses Socratic questioning to lift student performance. As a Founding Product Engineer, you'll join a Cambridge-led team in London to architect a voice-based platform proven to boost GCSE grades using Python, React, and complex agentic AI. This is a unique opportunity for an engineer with 5+ years of experience to scale the world's best tutoring to millions while owning the technical foundation from day one in our London office.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Inkling
Role overview
Inkling is an AI-powered education startup that provides personalised, 1-to-1, relationship-driven tutoring for students, delivered through an AI tutor aligned to exam boards and designed with safeguarding and school oversight at its core. Its platform makes high-quality, relationship-driven tutoring available to every student by combining top teacher-informed pedagogy with conversational AI to support individual learning needs.
What you will do
- Design and implement features across the full stack using Python, TypeScript/React, AWS, and Postgres to support a real-time voice interface.
- Develop and refine AI engineering systems, including agentic loops and memory frameworks that allow the tutor to adapt to each student’s thinking.
- Collaborate with founders and educators to bridge the gap between world-class pedagogy and production-ready software in a fast-paced environment.
Who this is a fit for
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production code in high-ambiguity, early-stage startup environments.
- Strong full-stack proficiency in Python and TypeScript/React, with practical experience managing AWS infrastructure and relational databases like Postgres.
- A mission-driven mindset with the product intuition to prioritize user experience and the drive to own large product surface areas independently.
Why this role is remarkable
- True founding opportunity with significant equity and the chance to architect the technical foundation of a product aiming to redefine global education.
- Proven pedagogical impact with a controlled study showing +1.25 GCSE grades and live deployments at prestigious institutions like Clifton College and Epsom College.
- Deep technical challenge working with voice AI, RAG, and agentic frameworks to move beyond chatbots into lifelike, spoken Socratic tutoring.
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