Founding Full-Stack Engineer

Are you passionate about AI and eager to work on groundbreaking projects? Do you want to be a major part of a rock-star team in a rapidly growing startup, collaborate with industry leaders, and make a real impact in the legal landscape? Do you want significant ownership in a startup building something people want with real paying users and significant traction? Here's your chance!

🏗️ About the role

We are looking for super-talented founding full-stack engineers to help us build both the front-end and back-end of our products extremely fast. You’ll be joining the most lean, talent-dense, and fast-moving engineering team in London.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Building the foundations of Solve Intelligence. You’ll be building the core, scalable foundations of our backend for a huge market - from the ground up. This isn’t a task to be taken lightly, and we’re excited to partner with people who are eager to dive headfirst into this opportunity.
• Developing our user interface. Building state-of-the-art AI systems is one thing. But without a clean, intuitive, human-centric user interface, it won’t be adopted. You’ll be helping us plan, build, and iterate on our front-end UX.
• Planning the product roadmap based on customer feedback. Everything we do at Solve Intelligence is based on customer feedback. You’ll need to help us extract insights from customer meetings to determine what we need to build to find product-market fit as quickly as possible.
• Assembling a world-class engineering team. You’ll partner with our founding team to build, scale, and set the culture of our engineering team.

💡About Solve Intelligence

We’re the fastest growing startup building AI products to transform how IP professionals work. We’re building an AI-powered end-to-end platform to help with every aspect of invention harvesting, patent generation, and IP portfolio management (see TechCrunch).

One year since we started Solve Intelligence as three hackers building cool stuff with AI, we’ve growing super fast. Our revenue is increasing 20-30%+ month-on-month, and we’re now selling to 100+ IP teams across the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. These include some of the largest law firms in the world such as DLA Piper, smaller boutiques, solo practitioners, tech startups, and large enterprises.

Our users love our product, reporting 50-90% efficiency improvements. WIPR recently published a case study about a Solve Intelligence customer, Volkan Hamamcıoğlu from InPera IP, who ‘has reduced patent application drafting time from 20 to 10 hours’ for his Firm by using Solve’s AI product.

We’re on a high-growth trajectory, and we’re looking for people who want to join us on the journey to building a billion-dollar company.

Come join the rocket ship 🚀

🚀 Who you are

We are a young company of highly motivated, ambitious, and hard-working individuals building a billion-dollar business. Our fundamental motivation is to build a state-of-the-art AI product to assist humans in generating intellectual property and to have mass market adoption of our software.

To thrive in this environment, you’ll be motivated to ship product fast - you prioritise speed, are always itching to move faster, and want to put things in the hands of customers to get critical feedback in days, not months. You’re passionate about mass adoption of AI - we’re at the beginning of an exponential curve, and we want to take the latest AI technology and build it into a useful product as quickly as possible. You’re a driven individual with a strong work ethic - our team is committed to going the extra mile, even if it means working long nights and weekends to achieve our goals. You strive for excellence in every aspect of your work - you take ownership of your outcomes and overdeliver on your goals. You’re humble, eager to learn whatever it takes to help your team and customers succeed, and an optimist who thrives in a positive environment.

👋 Who you’ll work with

Sanj (Chief Research Officer and co-founder): Sanj did his MSci in Physics at the University of Cambridge and his PhD in AI at the Gatsby Unit, UCL. He won awards at top AI conferences, worked on the R&D team at Huawei, and received widespread attention for his contributions to open-source LLM GitHub projects. He joined Magic Carpet AI as employee #4, where he developed AI strategies for trading which deployed millions of capital before being acquired by Blockchain.com.

Chris (Chief Executive Officer and co-founder): Chris did his undergrad at Imperial College, masters at the University of Cambridge, and PhD at UCL, during which he published 10+ publications and won awards in top AI conferences and journals. He has worked in leading tech organisations, including Dyson, The Alan Turing Institute, and InstaDeep before its acquisition by BioNTech.

Angus (Chief Technology Officer and co-founder): Angus did an MEng in Computer Science at the University of Bristol where he won a cyber security scholarship at GCHQ before working at Qualcomm. He then joined a London-based hedge fund, Coremont (Brevan Howard). There, he led a small team to build a greenfield trade processing platform which scaled to millions of trades per day.

Justin (Founding Member of Technical Staff): Justin studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and law at Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining Solve, he practiced law at Quarles & Brady, a top U.S. law firm, where he managed, supervised, and prosecuted global patent portfolios and counseled companies on multi-million-dollar global product and technology launches.

Daniel (Founding Full-Stack Engineer): Daniel studied Computing at Imperial College London. During his undergraduate, he intern’d at a bike rental startup where he single-handedly rebuilt the entire frontend, backend, and infrastructure of the software product which today is being used to rent and maintain 1K+ bikes across Oxford.

Tom (Founding Full-Stack Engineer): Tom did his undergrad in physics at Imperial, during which he became interested in programming. He then worked as a full-stack engineer at Redgate. He wanted to learn how computers fundamentally work, and so in his spare built emulators to replicate 1980s hardware on which he can now run classic Nintendo games.

Harry (Founding Member of Technical Staff): Harry studied Physics at the University of Bristol and then Robotics at King's College London. He is a UK & European patent attorney with extensive experience in every part of the patent application process, having worked at highly reputable London firms including Reddie & Grose and Dentons. More recently, Harry set up the London practice of a US law firm as their first European hire. 

🛠️ What you bring

As our founding full-stack engineer, you will have extensive experience building software to solve impressively difficult problems through past projects, designs, or GitHub contributions.

Must haves:

• Expert in Python.
• Experience with databases (Postgres).
• Familiarity with front-end and back-end development and full-stack frameworks.

Preferred haves:

• Experience with Web Development (Typescript/React).
• Experience building and scaling commercial software.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working with WYSIWYG HTML document editor APIs (e.g. TinyMCE, CKEditor 5).
• Experience with AWS DevOps tooling.
• IT security awareness.
• Experience with AI.

🎁 What we offer

• Base salary between $70-150K; depending on qualification and experience.
• Significant equity; we want you to take ownership in Solve Intelligence and share in the success that lies ahead.
• Full visa sponsorship.
• Opportunity to work with a super smart and ambitious group of people.