Skills

Python TypeScript PostgreSQL Research Architecture Security Architecture Database Architecture Databases react

Job Specifications

Founding Engineer | TypeScript, Python & AI Systems | Building AI Infrastructure for Pharma

Salary: £100-130k

Location: Hoxton

The Role

You will join as a Founding Engineer in a seed-stage AI startup building systems that transform how the pharmaceutical industry processes critical information.

You will help design and build the core platform that ingests global pharma data, applies AI reasoning, and turns raw information into actionable insight and automated workflows for enterprise customers.

Working directly with the founders, you will shape the architecture, infrastructure, and engineering culture from day one while building a product designed to scale into a major enterprise platform.

What They’re Looking For

TypeScript development
React frontend development
Python development
PostgreSQL database architecture
LLM orchestration and prompt engineering
Data ingestion pipelines including APIs, RSS feeds, and web scraping
Vector databases and modern AI data pipelines
Cloud infrastructure and SaaS deployment
Observability, testing frameworks, and CI pipelines
Proven ability shipping real products such as SaaS platforms, production data pipelines, open-source tools with users, or meaningful side projects
Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to learn new technologies quickly
AI coding tools including Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, or similar

Nice to Haves

Healthcare or pharmaceutical data systems
Biotech or regulatory data experience
Multi-tenant SaaS architecture
Enterprise platform deployments
Data modelling and medallion-style data pipelines
Security architecture and authentication systems

Why Join / Projects

You will help build AI systems that continuously monitor global pharmaceutical data sources including regulators, clinical trials, patents, and financial disclosures.

The platform turns this information into actionable intelligence and automated workflows for enterprise customers. Instead of teams manually reading filings and reports, the system detects and explains what matters in real time.

The founding team combines advanced AI research, pharmaceutical modelling expertise, and experience building data platforms used by major hedge funds. The company is already working closely with enterprise customers and is building a product designed to scale quickly.

You will help define the engineering culture, architecture, and technical standards from the earliest stage while building a platform capable of scaling into a major enterprise product.

Employee Benefits

£100,000 to £130,000 base salary
Meaningful founding engineer equity
Direct collaboration with founders on product and strategy
Travel to the United States to work with enterprise clients
Real ownership of product architecture and engineering culture
London office working alongside a highly ambitious founding team

Founding Engineer | TypeScript, Python & AI Systems | Building AI Infrastructure for Pharma

About the Company

We are Prism Digital, your DevOps and Cloud talent partner. Proud sponsors and co-organisers of the London DevOps meetup group. We are a niche consultancy with a tight focus on driving quality over quantity. We pride ourselves on our consultative approach, our extensive knowledge of the DevOps, Cloud and infrastructure sector and most importantly how important great talent is to help your company grow and succeed. We offer: • Expertise in Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Linux, Windows, CI/CD, Configuration Management, IaC, Cont... Know more