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AI-Powered Proposal & Insights Platform Startup
Type of role:  
Full-time
Location
Sydney
Cash Compensation
Competitive Salary
Equity provided
Yes, leadership-level
Working style
Hybrid
Team size
3-10
Seniority
Main skills
Company's funding stage
Seed
Date posted
July 1, 2026

About the company

We're an AI proposals engine built for professional services firms. Proposals that used to take days now come together in minutes: sharp, on-brand and ready to win.

As a multi-agentic AI platform, we learn a firm's expertise, case studies, methodologies and templates, and writes in their voice and to their standards at exceptional speed.

This is real traction, not early promise. Major enterprises and government agencies across the globe are already paying customers, backed by VCs and investors in the US and Australia.

The company raised 1M in an oversubscribed pre-seed round in 2025.

About the team

Why Join

• A technical leadership seat, with meaningful equity to match

• The opportunity to set the technical vision and build a global team

• Real product, real customers, real traction backed by global investors

• The chance to shape an industry going through major disruption

• A close-knit, high-velocity team where your work matters from day one

• Hybrid flexibility, based in Sydney

• Real support for growing your skills and your career

About the job

This is a technical leadership role, taking a business that already works to the next level. We have the product, the paying customers and the momentum. What we need now is a technical leader to help us scale it, fast.

You'll set the technical vision, own the architecture, and build the global engineering team behind it. You're deeply hands-on, writing and shipping the code that matters, and you'll build the strategy for how we build, who we hire, and where we're heading as we grow at pace.

You harness AI to deliver high-quality production code at startup speed. You stay across the latest in AI tooling: models, frameworks, what's worth adopting and what's hype. You use every tool at your disposal to move fast, and the code that ships is clean, tested and built to endure.

What you'll own

• The technical vision and architecture as we scale

• Features end-to-end today, from async API design to UI delivery, and the roadmap that turns them into a platform tomorrow

• The AI agent workflows at the core of the product, and the document pipeline from rich text editing to polished Word and PowerPoint output

• Our security, privacy and compliance essentials

• Engineering culture, standards and hiring as the team grows around you

The stack includes:

• Backend: Python (async-first), FastAPI, Pydantic, AWS (Lambda, ECS)

• Data: PostgreSQL (Aurora), MongoDB / DocumentDB

• Frontend: React

• AI: Pydantic AI, AWS Bedrock (Claude)

• Orchestration: Temporal

• Document layer: ProseMirror (rich text), DOCX pipelines

• Infra: AWS CDK, S3, SNS/SQS, API Gateway

• Observability: structlog, Logfire

Requirements

Must-haves:

• Strong async Python backend chops (FastAPI, async patterns, clean architecture)

• A track record of shipping and scaling production systems

• You've owned architecture decisions and lived with the consequences

• Comfortable with relational data models (PostgreSQL) and migrations via Alembic / SQLModel / SQLAlchemy

• Comfortable in React on the frontend

• Production experience with AWS

• You thrive in small teams where your work directly shapes the roadmap and trajectory

• You use AI as a force multiplier, not a crutch

• You're energised by how fast the AI landscape is shifting

Bonus points:

• You've been the most senior technical person in the room, the technical voice with customers and investors

• Experience scaling an engineering team or an early-stage startup

• Hands-on with AI agents or orchestration frameworks (Pydantic AI, LangGraph, etc.)

• Document generation pipelines (python-docx, PowerPoint, ProseMirror)

• AWS CDK for infrastructure-as-code

• Observability mindset: structured logging, tracing, instrumentation

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