Founding Product Engineer (£110k-£145k + Equity) at Nexcade AI

Overview

Job Title: Founding Product Engineer

Salary: £110k-£145k + Equity

Company Description: Nexcade AI – Freshly funded AI startup automating complex global freight forwarding workflows

Job Description: Join Nexcade AI as a Founding Product Engineer to build agentic AI systems that automate exception-heavy logistics workflows. Reporting to the CTO, you will own customer-facing product development, bridging the gap between sophisticated LLM orchestration and real-world operations. You’ll ship full-stack features that transform unstructured communication into automated pricing and procurement.

Location: London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Work at the cutting edge of agentic AI with a team that recently raised an $8.5m seed round and is seeing 40% month-over-month growth.
• Enjoy high ownership as a founding member, shaping the technical architecture and product strategy for a platform used by industry leaders like Zencargo.
• Join a high-velocity culture that prioritizes shipping code and solving tangible, billion-dollar problems in the global logistics and freight forwarding industry.

What you will do

• Prototype and iterate on AI-driven automation workflows, converting complex email threads and WhatsApp negotiations into structured procurement data.
• Build and maintain full-stack features using React, TypeScript, and Python while ensuring high performance and scalability in cloud environments.
• Partner directly with customers and founders to translate operational pain points into technical solutions, maintaining a focus on usability and user experience.

The ideal candidate

• Has 4-8 years of experience shipping production-grade systems at high-growth tech companies, preferably with exposure to LLM orchestration or agentic systems.
• Demonstrates high agency and a “first principles” mindset, having previously worked in early-stage environments or led 0-to-1 product initiatives.
• Possesses strong proficiency in modern stacks including React, TypeScript, Python, and Temporal, with a deep intuition for user-centric product design.

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