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Nexa School - Founding Engineer / Technical LeadNexa School • London, United Kingdom
Nexa School - Founding Engineer / Technical Lead

Nexa School - Founding Engineer / Technical Lead

Nexa School • London, United Kingdom
10 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Nexa School - Founding Engineer / Technical Lead

About Nexa

We're building a new kind of secondary school: AI-powered academics in ~2 hours each morning, real-world projects the rest of the day.

Secondary schools still run on industrial-era timetables and one‑size‑fits‑all curricula, leaving too many teenagers disengaged, anxious, and underprepared for the real world. Nexa School is a new secondary school model that blends ~2 hours/day adaptive learning with 1:5 coaching and real‑world projects, powered by a privacy‑by‑design platform that gives every student a personalised path without creeping on their data.

We need someone to build the first version of Nexa Core - the intelligence layer that connects curriculum, content providers, and coaches. We want something that works, has solid foundations, proves the learning loop, and doesn't paint us into long term corners.

What we're building (MVP scope)

  • Curriculum-to-content stitching: Map IB and/or UK curriculum objectives to third-party content (videos, exercises, platforms) via LTI/APIs. Swappable, not hardcoded.
  • Next-best-lesson logic: Simple, explainable rules-based recommender (completion, performance, human overrides). No heavy ML yet - we want to understand what's happening.
  • Human dashboard: Daily summary per user/group - who's stuck, who's flying, who's gone quiet. Space for notes and safeguarding flags.
  • Privacy-by-design: Data minimisation, clear audit trails, easy export/delete, UK GDPR compliant from day one.

What success looks like

A working system we can use with a small pilot group over summer. If we can show a student progressing faster than expected through a subject using this system, that's the unlock.

You might be right for this if:

  • You care about education and find this problem genuinely interesting
  • You've built MVPs before and know the difference between "good enough" and "technical debt bomb"
  • You're comfortable with ambiguity and can make sensible decisions without a 50-page spec
  • You have serious engineering experience (5+ years) - we're not looking for someone who'll vibe-code their way through this with Cursor and hope for the best (although we love good vibes and vibe coding has a place)
  • You can architect an AI-first stack properly: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines, LTI/API orchestration - and you understand the trade-offs between building vs. buying
  • You've worked with external APIs and content providers before and know how to build systems that don't break when a third party changes something
  • You think about data architecture, privacy, and compliance as foundational, not afterthoughts

Practicalities

  • Contract/freelance to start, with genuine potential to become a founding technical role
  • Competitive day rate or retainer - let's talk
  • Equity conversation available for the right person
  • Timeline: MVP by April 2026

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