London, ---, United Kingdom <p>£70k – £90k • 0.5% – 2.0% • Fully Remote We are an AI-driven Hospitality Tech platform helping vacation rental owners automate their revenue on Booking.com.</p> <p>Unlike most &quot;early-stage&quot; startups, we are already at £100k ARR, growing month-on-month and have investment from angels. We have a product customers love, a validated business model, and we are now preparing to expand to Airbnb and Expedia.</p> <p>We are a lean team of two founders looking for a Founding Engineer. You will be the technical lead, working directly with us to brainstorm ideas, architecture and ship code quickly.</p> <p>The Role This is a Backend-First role (70/30 split). You will spend most of your time in Python/Django, but you must be willing to jump into React/Tailwind to ship complete features ‍ We have interesting technical challenges involving high-volume data and browser automation (MCP/AI)</p> <p>Scale the Backend: Build and ship features using Python (Django) and Postgres.</p> <p>High-Volume Scraping: Manage enterprise-level scraping (1,000s of requests/second) and reverse-engineering of public data sources.</p> <p>Chrome Extension: Maintain and expand our extension that bridges our platform with customer accounts.</p> <p>Ship Fast: We use ChatGPT/Copilot heavily to speed up boilerplate code so we can focus on the complex logic.</p> <p>Frontend (Light): We use React/Tailwind. You don't need to be a frontend expert, but you should be willing to jump in and tweak UI when needed.</p> <p>The Logistics One founder is in Leeds, the other in London. We'd like to meet up occasionally to brainstorm &amp; speed up onboarding as well in person.</p> <p>Salary: £70k - £90k (depending on experience).</p> <p>Equity: Up to 2% options (4-year vesting). We are aiming for a £5-10m valuation in our next raise, join now to get in at the ground floor.</p> <p>Who You Are A Builder: You have startup experience (founder or early employee). You care about solving problems, not just writing code.</p> <p>Python Expert: You have deep experience with Python.</p> <p>Data Scraper: You understand the nuances of web scraping, proxies, and browser automation (Playwright).</p> <p>Pragmatic: You know when to build for scale and when to ship a &quot;hacky&quot; fix to unblock a customer.</p> <p>Autonomy: You want direct responsibility. You hate micromanagement and love taking a ticket from &quot;idea&quot; to &quot;deployed.&quot; Interview process - 30 min non technical call with myself. - 1 hour technical pair programming challenge (not leetcode but real-life problems) - Meet up in person with both founders - Offer</p> <p>Why This Role? Real Revenue: We aren't just an MVP, we have customers who have been with us for months earning more revenue with 0% churn.</p> <p>High Equity: 2% is a good chunk for our stage, it should be worth a significant amount within a years time as we raise at higher valuations.</p> <p>Hard Problems: If you get bored building standard CRUD apps, our scraping, MCP &amp; automation challenges will keep you engaged.</p> <p>Please share a link to your GitHub or a side project you are proud of, you can send me at <a class="reference external" href="mailto:martin&#64;mydatavalue.com">martin&#64;mydatavalue.com</a>.</p> <p>Required:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>backend python experience</li> <li>previously worked in a startup before</li> <li>uk based</li> </ul>