Founding Engineer

5 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom UK Visa Lab Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Founding Engineer — UK Visa Lab

About UK Visa Lab

UK Visa Lab was born from personal experience. Our co-founders, both immigrants who've navigated the UK immigration system firsthand, saw how outdated, confusing, and emotionally draining the process could be.

We're now on a mission to build the UK's first AI-native immigration platform
— one that empowers ambitious founders, engineers, and innovators from around the world to build their lives and futures in the UK with
clarity, confidence, and zero guesswork.

We're not just making paperwork easier. We're helping the next generation of global talent find home, belonging, and opportunity.

The Role

We're looking for a
Founding Engineer
to join us at the ground floor and shape the future of how immigration works. You'll lead the technical vision — designing, developing, and scaling the platform that will power thousands of successful visa journeys.

You'll work directly with the co-founders to make key product and architectural decisions, move fast from idea to execution, and build an exceptional user experience rooted in empathy, speed, and precision.

This is not a regular engineering role — it's a chance to
build a product that changes lives
while owning meaningful equity in a company that's growing fast.

What You'll Do

  • Architect, design, and build scalable, AI-powered immigration tools and workflows
  • Collaborate closely with the founding team to define product roadmap and technical priorities
  • Take ownership of core systems from backend to frontend — quality, performance, and reliability
  • Experiment with new AI technologies and automation frameworks to push boundaries
  • Build an engineering culture rooted in ownership, clarity, and speed

What We're Looking For

  • Strong background in
    software development and system architecture
  • Passion for building products end-to-end
    , not just writing code
  • Experience with scalable systems, AI integration, or workflow automation is a plus
  • Curiosity, bias for action, and a love for building in fast-moving startup environments
  • Empathy for users — especially immigrants, founders, and ambitious professionals pursuing their dreams

Why Join Us

  • Strong equity upside
    — you'll be part of the founding team shaping the company's future
  • Mission that matters
    — we're not just another tech startup; we're changing lives
  • Culture of ownership
    — we think like owners, move with urgency, communicate with clarity, and win together
  • Creative freedom
    — we value speed, experimentation, and results over bureaucracy

If you want to use your engineering talent to
change how world's most talented people move across borders
, this is your moment.

Let's build something extraordinary together

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