Forward Deployed Software Engineer – AI / Full StackForward Deployed Software Engineer – AI / Full Stack

🚀 Forward Deployed Software Engineer – AI / Full Stack 📍 New York City – Hybrid 💲$200,000 - £280,000 + Equity We’re working with an early-stage AI company building a new mobile and software platform for frontline users — and they’re looking for one of their first engineering hires. This isn’t a “fingers crossed” start-up. You’ll be working directly with founders who have done this before, including building a business from 0→1, scaling it successfully and taking it through a $100m exit. Now they’re doing it again. The product combines mobile, web, AI-powered workflows and secure backend infrastructure, and they need a genuinely full-stack engineer who wants to help shape both the technology and the product from an early stage. 🛠️ What you’ll be doing • Build and ship customer-facing features end-to-end • Work across frontend, backend and AI-powered functionality • Spend time directly with users to understand how they work and where the real problems are • Turn customer feedback, ideas and loosely defined problems into working software • Make pragmatic technical and product decisions as the platform evolves • Use modern AI development tools to build, test and iterate quickly • Debug and own the features you ship in production • Help establish the engineering practices the future team will inherit 🧠 What they’re looking for • Strong hands-on software engineering experience • Genuine full-stack capability — comfortable building across both frontend and backend • Experience with technologies such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Node.js or similar • A track record of building and shipping real products • Experience working with AI/LLMs and an interest in modern AI-assisted development • Familiarity with tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar • Strong product instincts — you care about what should be built, not just how to code it • Comfortable speaking directly with customers and non-technical users • High levels of ownership, curiosity and drive 🤖 Experience in a founding or 0→1 environment would be useful, but it isn’t essential. They’re much more interested in finding someone technically sharp, adaptable and driven who wants to take real ownership alongside a team that already knows what it takes to build and scale a successful technology business. If this sounds interesting apply to hear more.