Senior Software Engineer

Location: Central London (hybrid - typically 4 days/week in office)

Compensation: £70k+ base salary, plus equity options in line with what you bring

Do not apply if: you require us to sponsor a visa, or you are early in your career, you cannot commute to London

We seek an experienced mid-career technologist who wants to build a stake in an established early stage company with revenue and funding. This role will appeal to someone who is intellectually curious, keen on research, business, and new technologies, thrives in ambiguity, and values a high-performing working environment.

About Exabler

Exabler is transforming international trade compliance through AI-powered risk management solutions. We help global enterprises and freight forwarders prevent costly penalties, reduce working capital, and optimise supply chain operations using real-time monitoring of customs declarations and intelligent trade compliance solutions.

You would be joining a business at an inflection point, having secured major multi-national clients and winning several national prestigious competitions including R&D funding from Innovate UK, with a strong pipeline and institutional funding secured. This is an exceptional opportunity to be among the first of 2-3 permanent technology team members.

The Opportunity

Working directly with the technical co-founders, you'll drive architectural decisions and own critical systems. This role balances senior IC work (80%) with strategic planning and team building (20%), with a path toward Head of Engineering as the team scales.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve our high-volume data pipelines processing customs declarations, ML models for risk detection, and generative AI features
• Make technical strategy decisions alongside founders on scaling, tooling, and stack evolution
• Design and implement customer integrations and enterprise API solutions
• Lead technical aspects of enterprise sales cycles and customer onboarding
• Conduct deep data analysis and engineering to support compliance algorithms
• Manage AWS/GCP infrastructure and establish engineering best practices
• Mentor junior engineers and establish culture

Requirements:

• Mid-career with most experience enterprise software development
• Experience managing or leading engineers (formal or informal)
• Deep expertise in production data engineering, including designing and scaling real-time data analytics pipelines
• Production API development with frameworks like FastAPI
• Security-conscious approach to enterprise data handling and infrastructure
• Comfortable with Python, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD practices
• Strong communication skills - you'll help us translate business needs into technical solutions
• Pragmatic problem-solving approach with good judgment on tradeoffs in ambiguity

Valuable but not required:

• GCP or Azure experience alongside AWS
• Frontend and user experience design skills (e.g. D3) for dashboard work
• Strong database skills across OLTP & OLAP (MySQL, BigQuery)
• Experience of ML research, ML ops or deploying ML models in production
• Familiarity with LLMs incl. open-weights, workflows and agentic approaches
• Knowledge of trade, logistics, or supply chain domains

To Apply

Send your CV and a brief note on what interests you about early-stage startups to careers@exabler.com.