Join a high-growth startup founded by a fintech veteran who scaled his previous venture to £1bn in annual lending. As an early product engineer, you will build agentic AI workflows to disrupt the £2.5 billion UK conveyancing market. You'll own entire product verticals, shipping to production within your first week to solve complex, real-world legal challenges.
Senior Product Engineer at Firstminute Capital-backed AI-native legal firm
Join an AI-native law firm that has already hit $2M+ ARR just two months after launch. Backed by Firstminute Capital and led by a founder who scaled his last fintech to £5bn in financing, this startup is rebuilding the £2.5B UK property market from the ground up. As a Senior Product Engineer, you'll own entire market verticals, build agentic AI workflows, and ship to production in your first week. If you're a high-ownership engineer who thrives in early-stage ambiguity and wants to see their code solve massive real-world problems, this Shoreditch-based role offers the perfect blend of stability, traction, and massive upside.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Alecto
Firstminute Capital-backed AI-native legal firm building the future of property law
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and deploy agentic AI systems and LLM-powered workflows that automate complex legal processes and property transactions.
- Take full ownership of product features from user discovery and hypothesis forming to technical implementation in a TypeScript monorepo.
- Collaborate directly with the founder and users to iterate on a fast-moving roadmap, shipping code to production in an async-first environment.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Significant experience in early-stage startups with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products and making strategic technical decisions.
- Strong expertise in the modern TypeScript stack, including React, tRPC, Tailwind, and event-driven architectures using tools like Inngest.
- A product-first mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity, focus on user outcomes over tickets, and integrate AI tooling into your daily engineering workflow.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Exceptional traction with $2M+ in annualized revenue within just two months of launch, backed by Firstminute Capital and top-tier legal industry investors.
- Founder pedigree includes building Gen H into a major mortgage lender, raising over £50M in equity and £5bn in debt financing.
- High-impact ownership model where engineers run their own market verticals like a startup within a startup, directly influencing the P&L and product direction.
Jack & Jill
How Jack & Jill work together
Meet Jack
Jack gets to know what you're great at and what you want next, then searches 14 million jobs daily and introduces you directly to hiring managers.
How does this work?
Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.