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# Founding Engineer – Full-Stack (Remote, Full-Time) [AS324] (PK) at Smart Working Solutions

- **Company:** Smart Working Solutions
- **Location:** Pakistan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/smart-working-solutions/e3e9506e-8fe9-45fd-b703-bd4b3d85dbbc

## Job description

## About Smart Working

At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being. Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally. Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.

## About the Role

As a Founding Engineer, you’ll be the first in-house engineering hire, owning the platform across frontend, backend and infrastructure. You’ll scale and evolve the existing AI-native Professional Services Automation platform while continuing to deliver customer-facing features. This is a senior/staff-level IC role with significant ownership and autonomy, with scope to grow as the company scales.

## Responsibilities

- Own the product end-to-end as a solo generalist, building, shipping and deploying across frontend, backend and infrastructure without a supporting team.
- Keep the live platform healthy, including handling incidents and defects and managing safe releases and rollback.
- Use AI/agentic coding tools to increase personal output while independently verifying correctness, security and robustness rather than trusting AI-generated output blindly.
- Lead the platform towards ISO 27001 and SOC 2 readiness by April 2027, translating external compliance requirements into concrete engineering controls; prior certification experience is not required.
- Make the AI assistant and orchestration features reliable, measurable and safe.
- Decide what to preserve, isolate, improve or replace in the current platform based on customer risk and commercial value, without undertaking an unnecessary rebuild.
- Move fluidly across frontend and backend as a true full-stack generalist, with no fixed frontend/backend split.
- Harden, scale and evolve the existing product, including delivery intelligence, AI assistant, SOW ingestion, project/resource/commercial management and a beta orchestration layer, while continuing to ship customer-facing improvements.
- Work solo end-to-end as the company's hands-on technical owner, with the potential to help decide on and shape the first supporting engineering hire once funding closes.
- Work effectively with high ambiguity, evolving scope and close, direct collaboration with both technical and non-technical founders.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally including early-stage startup or high-ownership experience.
- 5+ years of senior-level full-stack engineering experience across a React/TypeScript frontend and Node/Postgres-style backend, or a strong modern JavaScript/TypeScript full-stack equivalent such as Next.js or Vue/Nuxt, with proven end-to-end ownership.
- 4+ years of senior-level experience with solo ownership of cloud deployment, releases and CI/CD, or a proven record of shipping and operating production infrastructure without a dedicated DevOps/platform team.
- 3+ years of senior-level experience with Postgres/Supabase or equivalent, including row-level security and edge functions. Deep relational database experience with another Postgres-based backend, Firebase or PlanetScale is also acceptable.
- 1–2+ years of senior-level experience using AI-assisted/agentic coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or Copilot to ship production software, or demonstrable heavy and disciplined use of LLMs within a professional development workflow.
- Have a clear method for checking AI-generated output rather than trusting it blindly.
- Be comfortable operating as a senior/staff-level individual contributor generalist and owning a product or platform end-to-end solo or near-solo; formal project-leadership titles are not required.

## Nice to Have

- 1–2+ years of LLM application engineering experience covering prompt design, evaluation, grounding and orchestration/agent safety, or evidence of fast, rigorous learning in a new technical domain.
- 2+ years of security fundamentals covering multi-tenant access control, secrets management and authentication/OAuth, or a security-conscious engineering track record without a formal security title.
- Experience translating ISO 27001/SOC 2 requirements into engineering practice. No prior certification experience is required, but you must be able to research and implement compliance requirements independently ahead of the April 2027 target.
- 2+ years of startup/founding engineer or small-team, high-ownership experience, or a track record of shipping solo or near-solo end-to-end without a supporting team.
- 1+ year of rapid-prototype/AI-generated codebase remediation experience, such as with Lovable, v0 or Bolt-originated codebases, or experience stabilising and hardening fast-built code of any origin.
- 1+ year of Stripe billing/payments API integration experience, or experience with another payments or metering API integration.

## About Smart Working Solutions

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Smart Working provides a "Tech Talent as a Service" model, delivering rigorously vetted remote software engineers and AI specialists who are fully embedded into clients’ teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Oli Rowse (Co-Founder), Max Rowse (Co-Founder), Julian Rowse (Director & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: IT Services and IT Consulting
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid‑market to enterprise clients in the UK and USA seeking to scale engineering teams without traditional hiring overhead
- **Mission / purpose**: "Building high‑performance global engineering teams without the friction, risk, or overhead of legacy hiring models."

## Products & Services
- **Tech Talent as a Service (TTaaS)**: A fully managed service that includes vetting, onboarding, payroll, HR administration, performance management, compliance, and continuous AI training. Engineers work the client’s hours, join their standups, and integrate into existing Slack/communication channels. Pricing starts at ~£20–£25/hour all‑inclusive.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 123 employees (78% year‑over‑year growth); serves 60+ clients in the UK and USA
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 78% headcount growth YoY
  - Average engineer tenure of 26 months (low churn for the industry)
  - Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 75
  - ISO 27001 certified
  - 4‑stage vetting process that admits only ~1% of ~100,000 monthly applicants
  - Continuous AI Academy training for all engineers

## Competitive Advantages
- **Rigorous vetting**: 4‑stage process (AI‑assisted screening, advanced technical assessments, communication tests, live technical interview) ensures top‑1% talent.
- **Full embedding**: Engineers work the client’s exact hours, attend meetings, and use the client’s tools – eliminating the disconnect typical of offshore outsourcing.
- **Low churn guarantee**: Average 26‑month tenure; if an engineer leaves, they are replaced at no extra cost.
- **All‑inclusive pricing**: Single monthly invoice covers vetting, onboarding, payroll, HR, compliance, performance management, and AI training.
- **Security & compliance**: ISO 27001 certified with comprehensive background screening.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the “Tech Talent as a Service” model to more clients while maintaining high quality and low churn.
- Continuous investment in AI training (AI Academy) to keep engineers ahead of emerging technologies.
- Expanding the client base beyond the UK and USA into other English‑speaking markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & ratings**: Employer rating of 4.7/5 on LinkedIn (196 reviews) with strong scores for work‑life balance (4.7), compensation (4.5), culture (4.6), and career growth (4.5).
- **Remote‑first**: All roles are fully remote, with engineers distributed across 18 countries. The model supports full‑time, contractual, and part‑time engagements.
- **Stability & impact**: Engineers work directly with 60+ clients on meaningful products and receive continuous training in AI and modern tech stacks.
- **Support**: Dedicated Account Managers and Customer Success teams handle performance, compliance, and career development.
- **Perks**: All‑inclusive payroll handling, no lock‑in contracts (1‑month calibration + 6‑month minimum), and a replacement guarantee.

## Sources
1. [smartworking.io](https://smartworking.io/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/smartworkingsolutions)
3. [lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/smart-working-solutions)
4. [simplify.jobs](https://simplify.jobs/c/Smart-Working-Solutions)

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