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Founding Engineer

Requesty Ltdvia Jack & Jill· London, England, United KingdomEquity
Posted 7 Aug 2026 · Added 7 Aug 2026, 14:58
Requesty LtdSoftware developmentfounded 2023
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Design and scale a high-performance LLM gateway in Go, using Kubernetes, SQL databases, and distributed caching. The company builds "Cloudflare for AI," an infrastructure gateway processing 75B+ tokens daily for enterprises. As a founding engineer, you will have direct influence over product architecture and company culture.

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Job Title

Founding Engineer

Salary

Not Disclosed + Equity

Company Description

Requesty Ltd is a $3M seed-funded London startup backed by 20VC and Tapestry VC. They are building the "Cloudflare for AI," an infrastructure gateway currently processing 75B+ tokens daily for enterprises like Shopify, Pfizer, and PWC.

Job Description

Join Requesty Ltd as a Founding Engineer to build the backbone of the AI era. You will design and scale a high-performance LLM gateway in Go, managing 75B+ daily tokens. This role offers direct influence over product architecture and company culture while working alongside the founders in a fast-paced London environment.

Location

London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

Build the infrastructure layer for the AI-first economy, creating a "Cloudflare for AI" that powers mission-critical LLM applications for global enterprises.

Join an elite team backed by $3M from top-tier investors like 20VC and Tapestry VC, already handling massive scale at 75B+ tokens per day.

As a founding engineer, you will have significant equity and a direct hand in shaping the technical direction and culture of a growing startup.

What You Will Do

Architect and build a high-performance LLM gateway using Go to route, load-balance, and secure AI traffic across 400+ providers.

Optimize distributed systems to handle massive throughput while implementing features like real-time analytics, cost optimization, and PII scrubbing.

Work directly with the founders to translate product vision into scalable infrastructure, shipping production-ready code daily in a pragmatic micro-service environment.

The ideal candidate

Expert backend engineer with 5+ years of experience in compiled languages like Go, Rust, or C++, and a deep understanding of concurrency.

Proven track record of designing and scaling pragmatic distributed systems, including experience with Kubernetes, SQL databases, and distributed caching mechanisms.

Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to balance speed and quality, ideally with previous experience in infrastructure-as-a-product or developer-facing platforms.