As a Founding Product Engineer, you will own the end-to-end development of AI-driven automation workflows that handle complex logistics operations. You'll bridge the gap between AI orchestration and user-facing products, working directly with customers to transform unstructured communication into streamlined procurement processes while shaping the platform's core architecture and technical direction.
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Founding Product Engineer at Nexcade AI
Nexcade AI is hiring a Founding Product Engineer in London to build agentic AI for the $14T logistics industry. You'll work directly with the founders to ship full-stack AI features, owning everything from architectural decisions to direct customer engagement. This is a high-impact role for a builder who wants to solve real-world chaos with LLMs and Temporal orchestration while earning significant equity in a fast-scaling startup.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£110k-£145k + Equity
Company
Nexcade AI
About this role
Role overview
About the company
SoftwareLondon, United KingdomPre-Seed (VC-backed)
Nexcade AI Ltd develops agentic AI automation solutions for freight forwarders, focusing on automating pricing, quoting, and rate procurement workflows. The company's AI agents extract unstructured information from emails and conversations outside traditional systems and convert it into structured, automated workflows. This helps logistics teams operate faster, improve win rates, and enhance data visibility. Nexcade's platform is designed to handle the complex, exception-heavy workflows typical in global freight forwarding, streamlining operations across air, ocean, and road freight.
Backed by Connect Ventures, MMC Ventures, Entropy Industrial Capital, Inovia Capital, Charlie Songhurst, Keith Wallington.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Prototype and ship full-stack features using React, TypeScript, and Python to automate complex pricing and quoting workflows for freight forwarders.
- Design and optimize scalable cloud architectures and APIs that support autonomous AI agents built on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Temporal orchestration.
- Collaborate directly with customers and founders to iterate on UI/UX, ensuring AI solutions integrate seamlessly into existing logistics operations and data environments.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 4-8 years of experience shipping high-quality production systems at high-growth startups, with a strong background in React, TypeScript, and Python.
- Demonstrates deep experience deploying AI/ML products, specifically working with LLM features, AI orchestration, or building agentic systems in production environments.
- Maintains a high-agency, "founder" mentality with the ability to navigate 0-to-1 challenges and prioritize user experience over technical over-engineering.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a high-growth startup freshly out of stealth with $8.5M in seed funding and 40% month-over-month growth, serving industry leaders like Zencargo and XPO.
- Work at the cutting edge of agentic AI, building autonomous systems that solve massive, real-world operational chaos in the global logistics market.
- Gain significant ownership and equity as a founding team member, reporting directly to the CTO and influencing every major architectural and product decision.
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