Software Engineer
60,000 - 130,000London AreaAre you a recent graduate or early-career engineer with an exceptional technical track record?
Have you studied at a top university, completed internships at leading technology or trading firms, or competed at the highest levels of programming and mathematics?ð Software Engineer – AI x Financial Modelling ðð Salary: Up to 130k DOE + equityð Location: London - onsite 5 days per weekð Will relocate and sponsorð Experience: Exceptional engineers 0-2 yearsI'm excited to be working with a very ambitious AI startup reinventing how businesses make some of their biggest decisions. They're building an AI-native financial modelling platform – essentially Cursor for financial modelling in Excel.
Financial modelling underpins some of the world's biggest decisions across M&A, private equity, investment, corporate strategy and consulting, yet the tooling remains incredibly manual and outdated.
This team is building something fundamentally different.
They're now looking for exceptional graduate and early-career Software Engineers to join a small, elite engineering team and work directly on some genuinely difficult technical problems across AI, software performance, financial modelling and product engineering.
This is not a traditional graduate role. You'll be given significant responsibility from day one, working alongside engineers from some of the strongest technical environments in the industry.ð They're particularly interested in candidates who have: Graduated from a top university with an exceptional academic recordCompleted internships at leading technology, trading, quantitative or engineering companiesDemonstrated exceptional problem-solving and programming abilityParticipated in and ideally placed highly in competitive programming contests, Olympiads or similar competitionsBuilt impressive technical projects outside of university or internshipsA genuine passion for software engineering and solving difficult problemsThe ability to learn incredibly quickly and operate with high autonomyð¡ You'll work directly on: Building and shipping production software across the stackOwning features end-to-end, from backend services through to frontendUsing AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to dramatically accelerate developmentBuilding and improving AI agents, their tools, harnesses and context optimisationWriting high-performance software and tackling challenging optimisation problemsWorking with TypeScript and Rust across a rapidly evolving productDebugging low-level issues and improving backend infrastructure and CICollaborating closely with design to build polished, intuitive product experiencesTaking increasing ownership as you develop into a technical leaderð Strong signals could include: Competitive programming / ICPC experienceMathematics, Computer Science or another highly technical degreeOlympiad participation or successInternships at elite technology, trading or quantitative firmsExperience with Rust, TypeScript, React or AI agentsPersonal projects that demonstrate exceptional technical abilityExperience working with LLMs and modern AI coding toolsð» Tech stack: RustTypeScriptReactAI / LLM toolingBackend infrastructure & DevOpsð What they're looking for: Exceptional technical ability – you're among the strongest engineers in your peer groupHigh agency – you don't wait to be told what to do; you figure things out and take ownershipIntellectual curiosity – you love learning difficult concepts and getting to the bottom of complex problemsAI-native mindset – you're excited about using the latest models and tools to become a dramatically more effective engineerSpeed + quality – you can move quickly without compromising engineering standardsCompetitive mindset – you enjoy challenging yourself and solving problems others find difficultLong-term potential – you want to grow rapidly and eventually own significant parts of a productð Why join?
Join a tiny, exceptionally strong engineering team with backgrounds including Jane Street, Bloomberg, Cambridge and UCLWork alongside engineers who have competed at the highest levels of programmingGet genuine ownership from the very beginning of your careerWork at the cutting edge of AI-native software developmentSolve technically challenging problems across AI, Rust, TypeScript and high-performance systemsLearn at an incredible pace alongside some of the best engineers aroundOpportunity to grow rapidly into a technical leaderHelp build a completely new category of AI product from the ground upIf you're an exceptional graduate who wants to skip the traditional corporate graduate scheme and go straight into building ambitious, technically difficult products alongside an elite engineering team, this could be an incredible opportunity.
If you've got the academic results, competitive programming background, elite internships or technical projects to prove you're exceptional, I'd love to hear from you.
Sound like you? Apply now ð