The Stay Experts is reimagining travel with AI. We’re building a smarter, simpler way to experience travel, making planning and booking effortless and personal.

Role Description

We’re looking for a Founding Full-Stack AI Engineer to join our early team. This is an equity-first role with a monthly stipend to support your time, transitioning into a full-time salaried position after our first funding round.

As a founding engineer, you’ll take ownership of our tech alongside another founding engineer already on the team, shaping our product, leading architecture decisions, and building the core platform that will transform how people plan and book their travel.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building our AI-powered travel platform end-to-end
• Developing scalable APIs, semantic search, and user-facing features
• Integrating AI capabilities (LLMs, NLP, AI agents, embeddings, vector databases, APIs) into real product features
• Helping define the technical roadmap and making key architecture decisions
• Contributing as a builder, not just an engineer, shaping product, culture, and company direction

What We’re Looking For

• Strong background in software engineering (full-stack with AI/ML exposure)
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, semantic search, NLP, AI agents, embeddings, and vector databases
• Comfort with cloud platforms and building scalable systems
• Entrepreneurial mindset, thrives in ambiguity, fast-moving environments, and wearing multiple hats
• Bonus: start-up or side-project experience that shows initiative
• Passion for AI, travel, and building from zero to one

We’re also open to recent grads or early-career candidates who can demonstrate strong potential, drive, and a solid portfolio of projects.

What We Offer

• Founding role with equity
• Monthly stipend to support your time
• Transition to a competitive full-time salary after our first funding round
• Open to part-time involvement before funding, with a clear path to full-time afterward
• Remote-first flexibility (with the option to meet in person, London/UK)
• Huge ownership and direct impact on product and company direction
• Work directly with the founder in a lean, ambitious team

Final Note

We’re not just building tech, we’re building trust and long-term impact.

If you’re a builder at heart and this feels like the kind of opportunity you’ve been waiting for, we’d love to talk.

Let’s build the future of travel together.