Founding Engineer (Equity + Salary)

Were building the future of company creation - a full-stack AI venture studio that partners with content creators to co-found authentic scalable software businesses. By combining AI-native development with creator-led distribution were unlocking a new frontier where software is rapidly built and distributed through trusted digital communities.

We aim to launch ventures 10x faster and cheaper than traditional methods using our internal AI factory: a multi-agent architecture reusable component libraries and a growing knowledge graph that learns from every product we ship.

Tasks

Responsibilities

1. Code with AI-first speed. Use AI to turn product specs into production-ready React Supabase and serverless back-ends in days not weeks.
2. Architect for scale (and scrappiness). Apply clean hexagonal patterns so v1 can evolve without rewrites.
3. Prototype pilot product. Move fast through validation loops: hack the MVP shadow users ship the fix repeat.
4. Wear many helmets. One sprint youre spinning up CI/CD; the next youre tweaking prompts or jumping on a creator livestream to debug user feedback in real time.
5. Set the engineering culture. Establish the rituals docs and testing standards that future hires will learn from you.

Requirements

Requirements

• Fresh degree fierce skills: BSc/MSc in CS AI Maths or similar graduating 2024/25.
• Shipping Experience: Youve shipped AI side projects - or research - that prove you can learn fast and finish.
• AI-native developer: You already treat LLMs as teammates and using agents to automate tasks.
• Grit & ownership: When the build breaks at 11 pm you pour coffee.
• Edge-of-curve learner: You track the latest AI tools play with new MCPs and deploy multi-agent systems
• Action oriented: Strong bias toward rapid execution and experimentation.

Nice-to-haves

• React / Supabase / Postgres Python back-end chops
• Prompt-engineering or fine-tuning experience
• Familiarity with Stripe Discord TikTok or other creator-economy tools
• Side hustle hackathon wins or open-source contributions

Benefits

Perks & upside

• Equity: Significant
• Salary: Competitive graduate package with rapid step-ups tied to revenue milestones (upon shipping or fundraising)
• Creator collabs: Brainstorm features with the largest creators who reach millions.
• Mentorship: Weekly 1-on-1s with our CTO and access to operator-investors across the studio network.
• Culture: Bold confident creative real-no buzzword bingo

If interested in applying please include one paragraph on the coolest thing you built with an AI tool.

More on why this is a career launchpad

• Own the code & the company. You step in as Founding Engineer #1 receiving a meaningful equity stake from day one.
• Ship faster with AI at your side. Weve baked AI tools into our workflow so you spend time solving problems not yak-shaving boilerplate.
• Ride a rocket not a conveyor belt. Affinity Labs is a venture studio that partners with top content creators to turn influence into scalable software. Think Prime for software
• Grow like crazy. Youll architect build and launch multiple products each year. The shipping reps youll get in 12 months here would take 3 - 4 years in a typical startup.
• Learn from builders not bosses. Youll work shoulder-to-shoulder with a founding team that has scaled VC-backed startups closed multi-million-pound term sheets and shipped products used by millions.