CareersBuild AI agents that help keep global trade moving.
Nexcade builds AI agents that do real freight forwarding work: quoting, tenders, rate sourcing, bookings, and analysis. We are a small London team shipping production AI against live freight operations, and we are hiring.
- Founded
- 2025, London
- Funding
- $8.5M raised, including $6M Seed led by Project A Ventures
- Team
- Growing across engineering, deployment, and commercial
- Office
- 94 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1
- Customers
- Forwarders across the UK, Europe, and North America
The offer.
- Salary and equity
- Competitive salary with meaningful equity. Within your package, you choose your own salary and equity split, because owners should decide.
- In person, Waterloo
- We work together 4+ days a week at 94 Lower Marsh, minutes from London Waterloo, with regular offsites and team events.
- Kit and health
- The technology you need to do your best work, plus health and wellness benefits. Early hires shape the benefits that come next.
- Trust over process
- A high-trust culture that prioritises shipping over bureaucracy. Small, senior, high-performance teams with audacious goals.
Open roles.
Two roles are open today. Every application is read by the founders.
Founding AI Engineer
London, Waterloo · Full-time, in personBuild the multi-agent systems that run quoting, tenders, rates, and bookings for real forwarders: orchestration, reliability, and the feedback loops that make agents dependable on live freight.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimise AI agents for live freight workflows
- Design review gates, fail-safes, and fallback behaviour
- Build the observability and feedback loops behind agent performance
- Work directly with the founders, the team, and customers on real pain points
What you bring
- Exceptional Python and experience with LLM orchestration
- AI automation shipped and running in production
- A record of making agents reliable and efficient
- Fluency with data pipelines and integrations
Founding Product Engineer
London, Waterloo · Full-time, in personShip the surfaces where forwarders see, steer, and release agent work: full-stack features, fast iteration on customer feedback, and architecture decisions that hold as the platform scales.
What you'll do
- Prototype, validate, and ship full-stack features
- Iterate on UI and UX from direct customer feedback
- Design APIs and cloud architecture for agent workloads
- Keep the platform scalable, secure, and fast
What you bring
- Depth in the modern web stack: React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
- Strong product intuition: you think like a user
- Fast iteration and comfort with experimentation
- Experience deploying and running applications in the cloud
Open application
London, in person · You define itThe roles above describe the team we know we need next. Exceptional people define roles we have yet to write. If you would raise the bar at Nexcade, tell us the role you would own and the work that proves it.
Make an open applicationTo apply, write to founders@nexcade.ai with your CV or LinkedIn, a few sentences on why Nexcade, and work you are proud of. We move fast and value your time.
