Founding Product Engineer

About the Role

We're hiring a Founding Product Engineer to join the early team and help shape an enterprise-grade energy procurement platform. You'll take ownership of the full product lifecycle, working closely with customers and founders to turn market data and energy market dynamics into scalable, high-impact solutions.

What You'll Do

• Take ownership of the full product lifecycle from design to deployment

• Translate product objectives into clear requirements in close collaboration with customers

• Design simple, iterative solutions to complex procurement and energy problems

• Develop performant backend services for a data-intensive application

• Build intuitive, elegant user interfaces for a complex decision-support system

• Train time-series forecasting models for power consumption and renewables production

• Develop linear optimisation algorithms that reduce customer energy costs

• Help choose and shape the core tech stack, including PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python

What We're Looking For

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building robust, maintainable, scalable web applications in a high-intensity or startup environment

• A product mindset and the ability to deliver full product features independently with customers

• Hands-on experience or strong interest in time-series forecasting and/or linear optimisation (preferred)

• Comfortable working across backend and frontend domains; familiarity with PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React, and Python is a plus, and FastAPI or Supabase experience is welcome but not required

• Early-stage startup experience preferred; generalist engineer or former CTO background is a plus, while corporate backgrounds are acceptable with demonstrated startup mindset and grit

• Curiosity for energy markets and complex, data-intensive business applications