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£70k – £90k • 0.5% – 2.0% • Fully Remote We are an AI-driven Hospitality Tech platform helping vacation rental owners automate their revenue on Booking.com. Unlike most "early-stage" startups, we are already at £100k ARR, growing month-on-month and have investment from angels. We have a product customers love, a validated business model, and we are now preparing to expand to Airbnb and Expedia. We are a lean team of two founders looking for a Founding Engineer. You will be the technical lead, working directly with us to brainstorm ideas, architecture and ship code quickly. The Role This is a Backend-First role (70/30 split). You will spend most of your time in Python/Django, but you must be willing to jump into React/Tailwind to ship complete features ‍ We have interesting technical challenges involving high-volume data and browser automation (MCP/AI) Scale the Backend: Build and ship features using Python (Django) and Postgres. High-Volume Scraping: Manage enterprise-level scraping (1,000s of requests/second) and reverse-engineering of public data sources. Chrome Extension: Maintain and expand our extension that bridges our platform with customer accounts. Ship Fast: We use ChatGPT/Copilot heavily to speed up boilerplate code so we can focus on the complex logic. Frontend (Light): We use React/Tailwind. You don't need to be a frontend expert, but you should be willing to jump in and tweak UI when needed. The Logistics One founder is in Leeds, the other in London. We'd like to meet up occasionally to brainstorm & speed up onboarding as well in person. Salary: £70k - £90k (depending on experience). Equity: Up to 2% options (4-year vesting). We are aiming for a £5-10m valuation in our next raise, join now to get in at the ground floor. Who you are A Builder: You have startup experience (founder or early employee). You care about solving problems, not just writing code. Python Expert: You have deep experience with Python. Data Scraper: You understand the nuances of web scraping, proxies, and browser automation (Playwright). Pragmatic: You know when to build for scale and when to ship a "hacky" fix to unblock a customer. Autonomy: You want direct responsibility. You hate micromanagement and love taking a ticket from "idea" to "deployed." Interview process • 30 min non technical call with myself., • 1 hour technical pair programming challenge (not leetcode but real-life problems), • Meet up in person with both founders, • Offer Why This Role? Real Revenue: We aren't just an MVP, we have customers who have been with us for months earning more revenue with 0% churn. High Equity: 2% is a good chunk for our stage, it should be worth a significant amount within a years time as we raise at higher valuations. Hard Problems: If you get bored building standard CRUD apps, our scraping, MCP & automation challenges will keep you engaged.

STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER – LEGAL AI Fully Remote Across Europe Pre-Seed Funded | Preparing for Seed | Competitive Salary + Equity Company Overview A pre-seed funded Legal AI start-up is building an intelligent platform to transform how law firms and in-house legal teams work. Backed by respected early-stage investors, the business has already built a functioning prototype and is now preparing for its Seed raise. As part of their next phase of growth, the founder is looking to establish the core engineering team before going out for the Seed round. This is an opportunity to join at a foundational stage and help shape the product, architecture and technical culture from day zero. Role Overview The Staff Software Engineer will work directly with the founder to evolve the existing prototype into a scalable, production-ready platform. The product is powered by Graph Intelligence, using a graph-orchestrated architecture to model legal relationships, optimise workflows and drive contextual reasoning across documents and entities. This role is ideal for someone operating at Staff level who wants significant ownership, the chance to shape the technical strategy and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge graph-based AI patterns in a high-growth environment. Key Responsibilities • Lead the evolution of the Legal AI platform from prototype to production-ready architecture., • Build core platform features using graph-orchestrated workflows and knowledge graph infrastructure., • Develop full-stack components that integrate AI, LLMs and graph-based reasoning directly into legal workflows., • Define engineering standards, tooling and processes suitable for secure, compliant legal environments., • Integrate and optimise LLMs and AI services on top of the graph intelligence layer., • Build scalable cloud-native systems designed for rapid growth and increasing graph complexity., • Work closely with the founder on product strategy, technical decisions and early customer validation., • Influence early technical hires and help shape the engineering culture ahead of the Seed round., • Own quality, performance and maintainability across the entire stack. Required Skills and Experience • Experience as a Staff Software Engineer or Senior Engineer performing at Staff-level ownership., • Strong full-stack engineering skills with modern frameworks and cloud-native platforms., • Experience building Legal AI, LegalTech, document intelligence or AI-enabled products., • Familiarity with knowledge graphs, graph databases or graph-based orchestration systems is highly desirable., • Experience integrating LLMs or AI services into production environments., • Proven ability to take early-stage products from prototype or MVP to scalable releases., • Comfortable working autonomously in an early-stage, high-ownership environment., • Strong communication skills and ability to work fully remote across Europe. What’s On Offer • Competitive salary with flexible equity or share options., • Fully remote working anywhere in Europe., • Opportunity to join immediately ahead of the Seed raise and influence every layer of the product., • Founder-level technical ownership and a major role in shaping the engineering function., • A chance to build a next-generation Legal AI platform using graph-based intelligence from the earliest stage.

Become a co-founder & tech investor at an established, early stage and scalable SAAS startup through Axial Ventures. We support founders at growth-stage startups with resources to accelerate their technology, and with support for raising further investment to scale. We're looking for an experienced tech entrepreneur & investor to take a position as CTO / co-founder, using your strong technology skillset in enterprise SAAS, to scale quickly as a co-founder and investor (investing your time, not capital) of one of our startup portfolio. With our backing already confirmed, we are looking for the right technical cofounder for building & scaling a successful AI-driven CRM style SAAS start-up that already has B2B users in the UK and US. Our mission: to find the right ambitious co-founder to invest their time into scaling this startup alongside the existing founder & CEO. Axial Ventures is a corporate investor and Venture Builder in the SAAS, Agri & Clean/ClimateTech arenas. We are laser-focused on supporting founders solving real problems with real, validated solutions. To do that, we ask every new co-founder to aim big, investing your time to build a solution with the potential to scale not only domestically, but also in the APAC and North American markets - and with our support in place to help each startup to reach that goal. Flexible programme framework This portfolio startup is based in London and we have committed part of our investment to additional support and team members in the US and Europe. The reality of a tech startup is good teams can operate remotely. Scaling a B2B SAAS or Impact technology business already? The venture building & funding model is an incredibly strong framework for scaling growth-stage businesses, which is why Axial Capital is set up to give your venture the best possible support for building a robust, scalable business. Our support is tailored to tech & IP-based startups with the ambition to improve enterprise workflows, or to reduce impact on the environment. How does Axial Ventures work? Our LPs are corporate technology firms and we follow an active investment model, to ensure you have the strongest technology resources to accelerate your product rollout. Where you have proven market demand, our aim is to focus on that demand and to deliver more quickly to realise revenue faster. Through our co-investor network we syndicate additional capital into each of our portfolio startups, so you can focus on building toward success. Learn More If you are looking to invest your time into a new venture that has validated traction and an exciting technology roadmap, get in touch for an initial conversation. We'd love to hear from you.

Role Overview This is a senior, hands-on commercial leadership role responsible for building and scaling the European market for biologics, cell therapy, and gene therapy CDMO services. The position operates as a sole regional contributor, with full ownership of market entry, pipeline generation, strategic partnerships, and revenue delivery. Key Responsibilities • Develop and execute the European go-to-market strategy., • Generate, manage, and close new CDMO development and GMP manufacturing opportunities., • Build and maintain a high-quality commercial pipeline across preclinical, clinical, and commercial stages., • Establish strategic partnerships with biotech, pharma, and ATMP developers., • Lead commercial negotiations and contract discussions., • Act as the senior European point of contact for clients and partners., • Work closely with technical, manufacturing, and QA teams to align commercial strategy with operational delivery., • Represent the company at key industry events and within the European biotech ecosystem., • Support future European team build as the business scales. Required Experience • 5+ years’ experience in Business Development or Commercial Leadership within: Biologics CDMO, • Proven success operating as a solo regional contributor with full revenue ownership., • Strong understanding of GMP manufacturing, tech transfer, and CMC strategy., • Established network within the European biotech and pharma landscape., • Track record of closing long-cycle, high-value enterprise deals. Key Attributes • Highly autonomous and entrepreneurial, • Strategic yet hands-on, • Technically credible, • Confident at executive and founder level, • Commercially driven and relationship-focused

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A global startup ecosystem in Leeds is seeking ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their startups.You will be employed while building your startup, with access to coaching from unicorn founders and support in securing funding.Ideal candidates have excellent communication skills in English and

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to 100M in revenues.

Fourth Consecutive Microsoft MVP Award for Principal Consultant Jamie Taylor. RJJ Software is delighted to announce that Jamie Taylor, Principal Consultant and founder, has been awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) status for Developer Technologies for the fourth consecutive year. The

A startup incubator is seeking ambitious entrepreneurs to build and scale their own startups.You will receive a salary while working on your startup or opt for up to 500k in funding.Weekly sparring with unicorn founders and strong community access are key benefits.Ideal candidates are open to reloca

A leading startup incubator in Leeds is seeking ambitious entrepreneurs to develop and scale their startups.

You will own build and run your startup in fields such as HR Tech.

Founder & Director at Antella | Travel recruitment specialist focused on Inbound Tourism, Outbound Travel, Travel Support Services, Multilingual…. Our client, a leading online/retail travel business, is now recruiting for an experienced travel professional to join as General Manager. The General M

We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1. B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre‑seed round by a