Full Stack Engineer

About Hutora

Hutora is on a mission to reinvent how organisations manage, develop and deploy their workforce by rethinking workflows from the ground up for the AI age. Spun out of Learnerbly (a leading workplace learning platform), and currently in stealth, Hutora is a brand new AI-first product built on seven years of insight from working closely with HR and People leaders. We’re a well-connected, well-funded and ambitious startup that has done extensive customer research – we know the real problems to solve and how to solve them. Our team has a high engineering ratio, we move fast, value intense focus, and are passionate about delivering big results. Our first technical hires will work directly with our Head of Engineering, Head of Product, and CEO, to lay the foundation of a platform that will drive the future of work.

Why Join Hutora?

• High-impact, early team: Be one of our first engineers, a pivotal role where you’ll have outsized ownership and influence from day one. Your work will directly shape our product and our tech strategy.
  

• AI-forward & innovative: Join an AI-native team pushing the boundaries of how modern software is built. We use the latest AI tools to supercharge development and product capabilities, and you’ll be at the forefront of this revolution.
  

• Fast-faced startup environment: Experience the intensity and thrill of an early-stage startup that’s done its homework. We operate in a fast, high-pressure environment with high expectations. You’ll grow and learn extremely quickly by solving hard, real problems.
  

• Competitive compensation: We offer a competitive salary and meaningful equity. You’ll share in the success you help create.
  

• Remote-first (UK): Work from anywhere in the UK. We care about output and impact, not where you sit.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for formidable engineers who act like owners. You should be able to take a vague problem, break it down, and ship a solution end-to-end without hand-holding. We love ‘expert generalists’, specific tech stack experience is less important to us than your ability to learn fast and adapt. We value fundamental software skills and the ability to collaborate with others to deliver value.

Here are some qualities that define our ideal teammates across all roles:

• Builder mentality: Proven track record of shipping software to production that solves real customer needs. You stop at nothing to accomplish the goal and can wear whatever hat (frontend, backend, data, DevOps) necessary to get the job done.
  

• Startup grit: Comfortable working in ambiguity and rapidly changing environments. You’re pragmatic under pressure. When things inevitably go wrong (and they will), you stay calm, adapt, and keep moving forward.
  

• AI enthusiast: Hands-on experience building with AI/LLM technologies. You leverage AI tools daily to supercharge your work. You stay up-to-date on the latest AI releases, and have a critical sense for how AI can be used to create amazing customer experiences.
  

• Quality at speed: You write clean, reliable code but can also crank out a quick and dirty prototype when needed. You take pride in your craft but understand the need for balance, knowing when to incur tech debt and how to pay it down later. In short, you move fast without letting quality take a nose-dive.
  

• Growth mindset: You always believe you can learn and improve. You love learning new things, exploring new technologies, and continually improving your skills.
  

• Team player: Excellent communicator and collaborator. You can work closely with non-engineers (product, design, and customers) to figure out what needs to be built. You’re empathetic to end-users and your colleagues. You thrive when pairing on code and believe that knowledge-sharing makes the whole team better.
  

• Passion for early-stage: You love startups. Extreme ambiguity, big challenges, and hard work excite you. You take initiative, you handle responsibility, and you genuinely want to be part of building an awesome company from the ground up.
  

• Automation instinct: You spot repetitive toil early and squash it, wiring up CI, infrastructure-as-code, scripts, or AI agents at just the right moment to multiply your and the team’s output.

Full-Stack Engineer

About the Role: As our Full-Stack Engineer, you will work hand-in-hand with our Head of Engineering to build the core Hutora platform. This is a broad role, working across the full application stack, from our database, through to our APIs, and UIs. We’re using modern tools (Next.js, React,TypeScript, AWS, Vercel), but we’re not obsessed with specific tech. We care that you can think across the stack and pick up new technologies on the fly. You will be turning prototype ideas into production features at a rapid pace, all while ensuring our system is scalable, maintainable, and delightful to users. If you love creating end-to-end product experiences and refuse to be put in a narrow box, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-end feature development: Build out critical product features from scratch. One day you might be creating a new AI workflow in the backend, the next day building an interface for it. You own features through the entire stack, across the database schema, application logic, frontend, and deployment. We break work down by problems to solve, not by silos.
  

• Architect & scale: Work with the Head of Engineering to design an architecture that can scale with our ambitions. You’ll make key decisions about system design, data models, and integrations. Early on, you’ll likely refactor parts of the system as we learn. We need simplicity and flexibility in our solutions, not over-engineered complexity. As a core builder, you’ll lay the technical groundwork for years to come. We may not get it right the first time, so you’re ready to evolve as we learn.
  

• Integrate AI intelligently: Infuse the platform with AI capabilities wherever they can create value. You’ll help figure out where AI adds the most leverage and make it happen.
  

• Code quality & best practices: In a fast-moving startup, we can’t afford a quality meltdown. You’ll champion maintainable coding practices, writing tests, doing code reviews, and setting up the guardrails (CI, monitoring) that keeps our product robust. You use methods including pair programming and TDD extensively.
  

Ideal Profile:

• Polyglot: You have experience across the stack. Maybe you’re stronger in some areas over others, but you’ve got exposure to the whole stack and are eager to work on whatever is needed. From crafting a responsive UI to optimising a database query, you’re comfortable doing it all. Your ability to learn new languages and frameworks quickly is more important than knowing our exact tech stack.
  

• Customer-focused builder: You think about the customer experience, not just the code. You care that the UI is intuitive and the API responses are fast. You have an eye for good design, but you also know how to design a database schema that won’t fall over. This balance of product thinking and engineering rigor is where you shine.
  

• High standards, pragmatic execution: You strive for clean architecture and code, and can be pragmatic about balancing good, great, and perfect. You can make trade-offs, timebox experiments, and avoid gold-plating. Essentially, you get startup pace and don’t panic when hacking is required.
  

• Growth and learning mindset: You stay curious and love expanding your skill set. Today it’s learning about a new AWS service, tomorrow it might be diving into MCP servers. You keep up with industry trends. We’re building something novel, so we need someone who embraces learning as a way of life.
  

• Team-oriented: You work well in a collaborative environment. You’re happy to pair program, review code constructively, and brainstorm architecture with your colleagues. You communicate clearly, and can explain complex tech decisions in simple terms. Ultimately, you want to build with others, not alone.
  

Why this role is exciting: You’ll get to build a complex, AI-driven product in an extremely hands-on way. Every feature you release will have your fingerprints on it, and you’ll constantly see your ideas reflected in the product. Few full-stack roles offer the chance to influence architecture, product direction, and engineering culture all at once. If you’ve ever wanted to architect a system from the ground up and truly own the outcome, here’s your chance. Plus, you’ll be working daily with a Head of Engineer who is eager to mentor and collaborate, so it’s a fantastic growth opportunity to level up your already-impressive skills.

Ready to build something amazing? If this role sounds like a fit for you, we’d love to hear from you! At Hutora, you’ll join a small, passionate team on the ground floor of an ambitious journey. It’s intense, challenging work, but also incredibly rewarding. You’ll create technology that changes how organisations operate. If you’re an expert generalist who wants to push the envelope with AI and make a real mark in an early-stage startup, get in touch.