Mission Driven Software Engineer

Purpose driven Python, React, Typescript Software Engineer Solving Humanitys Most Urgent Challenges

London based

A pioneering early-stage investment firm is backing entrepreneurs solving humanitys most urgent challenges from synthetic biology and clean energy to AI safety, healthcare, and space.

The team believes were entering a new economic renaissance where technology and science can bend the arc of human progress toward a better future.

This is a rare opportunity to join a tiny, world-class engineering team building the internal and external tools that power a mission-driven venture fund and its portfolio of extraordinary founders.

The team works at the intersection of venture capital, science, and technology using the latest advances in AI to identify, support, and accelerate the next generation of breakthrough companies.

The Opportunity

• Shape the future of impact investing: Build the data, product, and AI infrastructure that helps discover and support founders changing the world.
• Create and experiment fast: Work in two-week sprints across projects ranging from investor databases to AI-driven research scrapers and consumer-facing products.
• Operate like a founder: Each engineer owns their own product area, working with high autonomy and direct impact on the firms success.
• Collaborate with visionary people: Partner with engineers and product leaders who have built at Google, Meta, and leading startups all driven by purpose over prestige.
• Advance humanity through technology: Be part of a team that doesnt just invest in the future, but builds it from internal automation to tools for founders tackling AI safety and bioscience.

What Youll Do

• Design, build, and ship internal platforms that automate the venture process using AI and data.
• Develop products that help identify exceptional founders from academic and scientific communities.
• Support portfolio companies with infrastructure, hiring tools, and technical guidance.
• Prototype rapidly across multiple domains expect to work on something new every few weeks.
• Push the boundaries of how a modern fund operates through creative engineering.

Tech Stack

Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js with a deep embrace of AI tooling and automation. Curiosity about new technologies is essential.

Ideal Profile

• Startup DNA: Experience in fast-moving environments, ideally as a founding engineer or early stage employee.
• Technical excellence: A hands-on engineer with strong fundamentals whether self-taught or academically trained (Computer Science or related field).
• Big Tech or deep tech experience a plus (Google, Meta, etc.)
• Mission alignment: Motivated by solving meaningful problems, not just shipping code.
• AI passion: Fascinated by AI tools, safety, and alignment eager to explore both the promise and the risks.
• Collaborative and autonomous: Thrives in small teams with high trust and flexibility.

Culture

• The firm operates with Silicon Valley intensity and purpose. Work-life integration replaces rigid schedules outcomes matter more than hours. Everyone contributes ideas, moves quickly, and takes ownership. The team meets regularly in person at a central London office and values curiosity, humility, and drive above all else.
• Every hire is unanimous each team member interviews every candidate. The bar is high, but so is the potential for impact.

Compensation

Competitive salary (around 150,000) plus a share in the long-term success of the funds investments real ownership in the impact created.

Why Join

This is not just another engineering role. Its a chance to:

• Work on problems that genuinely matter.
• Collaborate with people building a Star-Trek-like future.
• Combine AI, venture, and purpose in one role.
• Build tools that help humanity move forward.

If youre a brilliant, curious engineer who wants to apply your skills to the biggest challenges of our time, this is the opportunity to do the most meaningful work of your career.