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Nexcade AI

Nexcade AI

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London, United Kingdom£110k-£145k + Equity

Founding Product Engineer at Nexcade AI

Join Nexcade AI as a Founding Product Engineer and help build the agentic AI platform transforming global logistics. Freshly out of stealth with $8.5m in seed funding and 40% MoM growth, we’re automating the chaotic workflows of freight forwarding for giants like XPO. This is a high-agency role where you’ll work directly with the founders to ship full-stack AI features that solve real-world operational problems. If you have 4-8 years of experience and a passion for 0-to-1 engineering, this London-based founding team opportunity offers significant equity and the chance to shape the future of trade.

Overview

Role overview

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.

Company

Nexcade AI

Nexcade AI

SoftwareLondon, United KingdomPre-Seed (VC-backed)

Nexcade AI - Freshly funded AI startup automating complex global freight forwarding workflows

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

Responsibilities

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.

Candidate profile

Who this is a fit for

  • 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.

What makes it remarkable

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.

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