Senior Founding Engineer, Neya

Architecting AI Agents for Social Connection, Founding Team

£70-90k

+ 0.5-2% Equity

Senior and Expert level

London

Oxford

1-3 days a week in office (Paddington, London)

AI that Connects People and Communities

Be an early applicant

New company

AI that Connects People and Communities

1-20 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceSharing EconomySocialSaaSSocial MediaSocial ImpactCommunity

Be an early applicant

New company

£70-90k

+ 0.5-2% Equity

Senior and Expert level

London

Oxford

1-3 days a week in office (Paddington, London)

1-20 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceSharing EconomySocialSaaSSocial MediaSocial ImpactCommunity

Role

Who you are

Expertise building agentic architectures, with robust async coordination, self-healing workflows, and techniques for controlling or exploiting non-deterministic model responses
Exceptional backend fundamentals. Strong in API design, data modelling, caching, performance, reliability, and secure, observable systems
5+ years engineering experience with a strong track record of owning production systems end to end
A product-engineer mindset with deep care for user experience as well as system design
Builder mentality. Resourceful, hands-on, and comfortable creating structure in ambiguity
Interest in community, social behaviour, or impact-driven products
Deep experience with TypeScript, and strong production experience with Node.js and Next.js/React
High velocity and ownership. You ship fast, learn fast, and thrive with autonomy

Desirable

Zero-to-one experience in early-stage start-ups
Experience with machine learning, vector databases, semantic search, embeddings, or recommendation/matching logic
Cloud infrastructure, observability, Postgres, serverless, event driven architectures
Mobile development (Capacitor, React Native, or native Android/iOS)

What the job involves

We are looking for a partner, not just an employee. You will be a hands-on engineer, helping define what we build, how we build it, and the engineering standards that shape Neya for years to come.
You’ll take on hard challenges such as keeping agents reliable, modelling neighbourhood-level behaviour, designing trust and reputation systems, and structuring messy conversation, while also contributing to key product features across the main app.
You will work directly with the CTO (ex-Spotify, Gousto) and co-founders to build, ship, and scale the product
There’s no bureaucracy here. Just a small team, moving fast, building for real users, and focused on making a meaningful impact

Application process

Apply on Welcome to the Jungle
Fill out short questionnaire (four Qs)
25m alignment conversation
Technical exercise
Technical review with CTO

Our take

Entering a digital landscape of algorithmised social media and a cacophony of voices, social AI startup Neya wants to cut through the noise and deliver its customers tailored, specific recommendations. As an AI assistant, Neya helps its users find communities, businesses, and connections that speak to their needs and interests, thus creating a more human-centric approach to AI.

It’s in its early stages, but Neya savvily utilises preexisting platforms like WhatsApp so that its use comes intuitively to customers. Integrating with messaging platforms, Neya aims to act as a local social connector, with potential for a wide variety of use cases. From professional networking to hobbyists searching for local communities, there’s huge potential in Neya.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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