Founding Engineer

StudyStash

  • Birmingham
  • £70,000-90,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 25 days ago
Location: Birmingham, UK / London, UKCompensation: £70-90k + equityContract type: Full-time, permanent (3 days a week in-person)About StudyStashStudyStash is a powerful B2B AI learning companion that helps students take better notes, learn more effectively, and prepare smarter. Already trusted by students and institutions alike, StudyStash is on a mission to improve learning outcomes by making study more intelligent, personalised, and engaging.With a growing number of universities adopting StudyStash, we're looking for a Founding Engineer to join us as one of our first employees. You’ll ship production code from day one and own major features end-to-end. You’ll be talking to users, building and iterating.We’re a hybrid team based in the UK + US, and this position will require 3 days a week in person, working directly with the CTO.Tech Stack:
  • Next.js + Typescript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Observability with Sentry
  • SOTA LLMS
Skills & experience we're looking for:
  • 3+ years shipping full-stack production code across TypeScript, React, Next.js.
  • Strong familiarity with building LLM apps (RAG, prompting, structured outputs, bias handling)
  • Comfortable moving extremely fast with rapid iterations
  • Strong debugging and performance tuning skills (e.g. N+1 queries, memory usage, job queues)
Bonus if:
  • You have shipped a product end-to-end (from frontend to backend/API) and scaled to a ton of active users.
  • You have previous experience in EdTech
Why Join Us
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Private healthcare
  • Flexibility of hybrid working
  • We sponsor work visas so you can come to build with us in person!

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