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Product Engineer

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  • £100K - £250k base + significant equity
  • Central London

Software Engineer - Rust/C++

💰 £100K - £250k base + significant equity

📍 Central London - 5 days onsite p/week

🌍 Visa sponsorship available


Want to build one of Europe’s most ambitious AI products alongside engineers from Jane Street, Bloomberg, Cambridge, UCL and ICPC World Finalists? 👀

This is small yet elite engineering team are building an AI product which is the future of financial modelling to assist top institutions, consultancies and analysts with making sense of complex spreadsheets.


Now they’re hiring exceptional engineers who want to build at the absolute cutting edge.

What makes this different?

This isn't a traditional Backend / Frontend role.


You’ll be expected to:

⚡ Own problems end-to-end

🦀 Build high-performance systems in Rust + TypeScript

🤖 Work with AI agents, LLMs & AI-native tooling

🚀 Ship incredibly quickly using tools like Cursor + Claude Code

🧠 Solve genuinely difficult systems, performance & infrastructure problems

🎯 Shape the product, architecture and engineering culture from the ground up


They’re looking for:

  • Exceptional technical ability / top-centile engineering talent (strong academic or competitive programming background)
  • Experience with low-level, high-performance or complex systems (C++ or Rust backgrounds ideally)
  • Engineers who thrive on autonomy and ambiguity
  • Startup, systems, AI tooling or competitive programming experience is a huge plus


They want high-agency engineers who can take a hard problem, figure it out and build the solution.


If you're excited by elite engineering, AI-native development and building something genuinely category-defining, apply now! ✅

Charlotte Young Head of Java & Kotlin Recruitment

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