Senior Software Engineer, Bite Engineering

• Love learning a new domain, and shipping something within weeks that actually fixes what was broken in it
• Ship features end to end across the backend API, the React frontend, and the tests that prove they work
• Drive the architecture of the entity-resolution layer that every other part of the platform depends on
• Design and evolve the contracts between our services, and the async queues and workers behind them
• Improve extraction and retrieval quality in the Python ML/RAG workers, and measure whether it actually got better
• Work with El-Amin, our CTO and a former practising structural engineer, on how engineers reason about a load path or a revision, and encode it into the data model
• Make the pragmatic calls on tech debt with the team: what we fix now, what we log, and why
• Bring a track record of shipping and owning production systems end to end; years matter less to us than evidence you've done it
• Bring strong backend experience, ideally Node.js or TypeScript in a production API context, and are comfortable reading C# and Python
• Bring experience designing and evolving APIs in production: that's what we need on day one. The specific async, event-driven tooling behind them (queues, workers, content-addressed storage) is something you'll pick up here
• Have the instinct to keep things simple under pressure, and the judgement to know when a tactical shortcut is right and when it isn't
• Have genuine product sense: our Head of Product shapes the roadmap, but there's no layer of product management between you and customers, and you'll exercise that judgement daily
• Communicate clearly across deeply technical, semi-technical and plain-language conversations: clarity is what lets us move fast without losing customers' trust in what's shipped
• Are kind, curious, optimistic and driven. We believe in being kind over being nice, and we give and receive constructive feedback constantly
• Are comfortable in a startup where you're building the process alongside the product, with high ownership and autonomy
• Don’t rule yourself out over the stack. We’re looking for strong engineers with sound principles. Technologies are tools

Desirable

• You’ll be one of our first engineering hires, working directly with the founders across a polyglot stack — a Node/TypeScript backend API, a React frontend, a C#/WPF Windows desktop connector and Python ML/RAG workers on Azure. You don’t need experience in construction or in our exact stack. We hire for strong core engineering, and the team are polyglots who treat specific technologies as tools for tackling problems
• You'll own engineering outright, not a slice of it. There's no engineering organisation to inherit and no layer of management to negotiate with. What exists today is a working platform and a small team; the standards, the architecture, the hiring bar and the shape of the function as it grows are all genuinely open, and they're your decisions to make
• Your work ships to people who pay. The beta is in production with signed customers that include some of the UK’s leading structural engineering firms. Features go from your branch into the hands of working engineers within days, and you’ll hear directly what landed and what didn’t
• Ship features end to end across the backend API, the React frontend, and the tests that prove they work.
• Drive the architecture of the entity-resolution layer that every other part of the platform depends on.
• Design and evolve the contracts between our services, and the async queues and workers behind them.
• Direct access to customers. You’ll be on calls with structural engineers, not reading a summary of them
• Improve extraction and retrieval quality in the Python ML/RAG workers, and measure whether it actually got better.
• Work with El-Amin, our CTO and a former practising structural engineer, on how engineers reason about a load path or a revision, and encode it into the data model
• Make the pragmatic calls on tech debt with the team: what we fix now, what we log, and why.