Job Posting for Early Stage Start-ups
CUTEC is committed to helping our members carve their entrepreneurial path.
We also understand that recruiting is critical to early-stage start-ups, that’s why we have created a space for start-ups to connect with talent within the Cambridge ecosystem.
How?
Apply to start posting jobs - Fill out a form and await communication from the CUTEC Team
Requirements:
- Alumni, Professor, Student or hold any position at the University of Cambridge
- Demonstrate a serious business by passing through a verification process (any document that certifies the establishment of a company in any country, otherwise an interview)Begin posting job opportunities and grow your business!
Start by applying here
Job Opportunities
Early stage VC-backed company looking for full-stack developer. xWatts is an energy management software company that helps commercial and industrial facilities reduce their energy costs and carbon emissions by up to 40%. We connect directly to a building's energy consumption, generation and battery storage assets and evaluate energy market data, environmental conditions and operational constraints to replace manual optimisation with predictive control and automation. We have just closed our £1.2m pre-seed round backed by Antler, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Parkwalk Advisors, R42 and a host of industry expert angels.
FULL-STACK DEVELOPER
Responsibilities:
Work with our product team to design, code and test the xWatts platform (front & backend) to extend our energy optimization offering
Improve the design and architecture of our applications and services
Work together with our customers and partners to integrate our software service via API’s to building automation systems
Playroom Technologies Inc
Stage: Soon to Launch MVP
For esports fanatics, and amateur & professional gamers from LATAM, Playroom is the only competitive platform built in a social network structure, that offers unique, easy to understand, and well-built functionalities because it is made based on a thorough user experience research and most importantly developed by gamers and top technology experts that use innovation as their life purpose
Software engineer intern
Salary: £650/Monthly
Responsibilities:
Develop high-quality software and web applications
Analyze, test, and maintain code
Design highly scalable code
Fix bugs in the code
Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
Operations Manager intern
Salary: £650/Monthly
Responsibilities:
Manage a small development project
Analyze marketing and operational Metrics
Prepare PowerPoint Presentation in English and Spanish
Work directly with the CEO in Research Activities
Test different use cases for a technology project
Manage partially social network projects
Requirements:
Computer Science Engineers or similar students in their last years of studies, we can do exceptions for outstanding students in their first years
Familiar with our back-end stack python + React
Familiar with CSS, HTML, JS
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while achieving benchmarks
A clear understanding of the usages of APIs
Understand the differences between a micro-services architecture vs monolithic
At least 3 months of availability
Requirements:
Mid-Level Proficiency with Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (Pivot Tables expert)
In the last year of studies (Engineering, Business Administration, Economics or related). Also, Mst, Mphil, MBA.
Strong organizational and communication skills
Strong ability to multitask
Fluent in English and a good level of Spanish
Nice to have:
A native Gamer especially in Warzone, Fortnite, or League of Legends
Mid-level of Google Analytics
Mid-Level of Monday, Asana, Trello, and Slack
Understanding of basic technology how an API works
If you are called for an interview be prepared for Business case questions and Brainteasers
The interview will be in English and Spanish
Mundana Travel
Stage: MVP Launched
Instant booking platform for luxury hotels
SENIOR PHP / WORDPRESS DEVELOPER
Responsibilities:
You will be helping build a travel booking website
Your tasks will span from designing new features writing code and bug fixing, expecting that new and changed code is thoroughly tested and well documented.
You will also help the other developers, conduct code reviews of their code, test your own code and that of others, interact with our support team and helping them solve customer issues, and interact with the rest of the team for knowledge sharing and product work.
Requirements:
Part-time/remote role
Excellent verbal and written English
Organized, methodological, and can work with very little or no supervision
3+ years experience working as a PHP / WordPress plugin developer (mostly back end development)
Tech skills required: Php MySQL WordPress JQuery Ajax WordPress REST API Bootstrap HTML/CSS Git Metabox.io
Super-Sharp Space Systems
Stage: MVP Launched
Super-Sharp Space Systems Limited is an Earth-imaging company developing unfolding space telescopes to capture high-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) images of the earth. Our fundamental innovation is our patent-pending self-alignment technology which positions our optics to better than one-hundredth of the width of a human hair. This allows us to fit a large telescope in a small box, making low-cost, high-resolution, and high-revisit Earth-imaging possible. Our innovative and disruptive technology makes powerful TIR space telescopes much more affordable (up to 100x lower cost) while achieving 10x greater resolution than the current state-of-the-art solutions. The images captured by our space telescopes can be used for applications such as wildfire detection, crop monitoring, as well as maintaining global security. We are determined to offer high-quality affordable Earth-imaging solutions to empower our world in responding to global change.
summer intern
Salary: £1,500 per calendar month gross.
Responsibilities:
High-resolution TIR satellite images will open the market to new opportunities, with various commercial applications. At Super-Sharp Space Systems, we are developing innovative unfoldable space telescopes to capture these images at a high-resolution and revisit rate. As part of our commercialization plan, we are currently running commercial trials that consist of interacting with customers in different industries to demonstrate the benefits of TIR images. Although we don’t have any telescopes operating in space at the moment, we are capturing localized thermal images using a drone. To emulate a satellite image that will be taken with our telescopes, we need to stitch these drone images and downgrade their resolution.
This summer project consists of assisting in the data processing efforts of these images and comparing their performance to optical satellite images for applications such as detecting dehydration in crops, detecting wildfires at an early stage, and monitoring illegal fishing vessels. Activities that the intern will undertake include:
Processing multiple thermal images taken by a drone to create an emulated satellite image. Repeating this process to create multiple emulated satellite images of different locations.
Comparing the performance of the emulated images to an optical satellite image taken by Sentinel/Landsat satellites.
Writing a report detailing the benefits and drawbacks of thermal satellite imaging compared to optical satellite imaging.
Presenting the results of the study to the management team of Super-Sharp Space Systems.
Requirements:
We are looking for motivated candidates that are interested in Earth Observation and working in a fast-paced start-up. Ideal candidates should have experience in image processing and an understanding of the applications of satellite images.
Academic: STEM undergraduate degree
Time commitment: 2 months
Minimum requirements: General programming experience in high-level languages such as python, good communication skills, ability to work autonomously.
Desirable requirements: Experience in image processing, familiarity with the space industry
Mealhub
Stage: Series A
Mealhub is a well-funded, fast-growing tech company, combining cutting-edge hardware and software with novel business models to address the last mile problem. The first application of our technology is the food delivery market, where we have demonstrated product-market-fit, and have partners with a number of the largest players in this space
Strategy, Operations, and Growth Analyst
Salary: £30,000 - 35,000
Responsibilities:
Working within teams overseeing operations, furthering growth, and working on product design and strategy.
Requirements:
Strong quantitative skills
Process-driven
Creative first-principles thinking
Engineering or Design skills desirable.
YHANGRY
Stage: Seed Round
Building the future of socialising at home, starting with private chef dinner parties that are easy to book, from just £17pp.
Customer Experience Lead
Salary: £30,000 - 50,000
We are searching for an outgoing, hardworking, all-around great communicator who loves food and cares passionately about the customer experience, which is also closely linked with the chef experience. You will be empowered to help shape the future of our product by collecting, analysing feedback from our customers and chefs - learning about their pain points and connecting the dots to create a better experience on both sides! You will streamline all communications between us, our customers and chefs - you will be working very closely with the product and operations teams. Your first project will be researching and choosing the most suitable CRM tool, which will allow us to centralise all channels which are currently disjoint, e.g. live chat booking support, pre-sales, post-sales email inquiries, Instagram direct messages inquiring about availability, Facebook messenger etc. We want you to tell us in your initial application why you enjoy having friends over at home. The right fit will be someone who is motivated by the idea of bringing people together to have a great time, someone who is excited by the idea of being challenged. You will be working in a fast-paced environment at an early-stage startup, with 10 team members initially where we need all hands on deck. We will be growing very quickly so it’s important that you are a great team player who can take on a leadership role as we hire.
Responsibilities:
Being the face and voice of YHANGRY to new and existing customers.
Communicating with our customers on a daily basis and evaluating how we can improve their journey.
All incoming and outgoing customer contact will go through you.
Streamlining communication tools including phone, email, and live chat.
Dealing with questions, problems, and feedback from our potential and current customers.
Developing new and creative ways to make the YHANGRY experience even better.
Taking insights & feedback from customers and chefs, and turning those into strategic decisions for the future of the business. Helping to form our culture and voice, and bring a fresh pair of eyes to everything.
We need to be accessible to our customers at all times, this means that there will be weekend work involved.
UX/UI Designer
Salary: £30,000 - 50,000
We are looking for a talented designer: a creative power-house with product and campaign experience to join us and take the lead on all things design, whether that is taking part in product ideation, improving our current funnel to increase conversions, delivering UX/UI design for new product features, or creating brand assets, online or offline advertising creatives. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across chef and customer success, operations, engineering, and growth. You will turn insights into amazing internal and external assets/products. We are growing at lightning speed and we need someone who can keep up and thrive in a creative environment which also requires proven leadership skills and the ability to execute a creative vision.
Responsibilities:
Ease of booking is one of our USPs: Our UX is key to success and you’ll be analysing data and proactively suggesting solutions to optimise our UX and drive growth
Staying up to date on evolving trends and delivering user-centric design thinking
Identifying opportunities for improvement, presenting them to cross-functional teams, and executing them
Managing and implementing designs for marketing campaigns, e.g. social media content, online or offline advertising campaigns
Working closely with our senior engineer and operations to brainstorm and implement new features to improve the customer journey
Requirements:
You are A HUSTLER. You will need to get sh*t done in a major way and bulldoze through walls. You are someone who brings solutions not problems. We are leading the category, and for us to stay there, you will need to be relentless
You have 1+ years of customer service experience or a similar customer-facing role
You are an excellent internal and external communicator and strong interpersonal skills. Communicate complex details simply
You are kind, empathetic and thoughtful
You are an excellent listener with superhuman ability to read between the lines between what people say they want and what they really want
You are good at number-crunching: strong enough with stats and excel to quickly identify issues, inefficiencies and how big these might be. You’ll need strong problem solving and analytical skills with great attention to detail.
You are organised - we’ve got so many projects happening at the same time and we need someone who has experience managing and working to a tight timeline
You are diligent, detailed, and efficient - to be honest, we don’t have time to be pedantic, but we can’t cope with typos either
You are a strong communicator who can deal with our engineer one minute and our social media manager the next - you are able to wear many hats at once!
You are resourceful and smart with our time and money
You are resilient and carry high standards for yourself as well as those around you - we’re looking for someone who is keen to keep growing and improving and can take constructive feedback and fly with it
You don’t take yourself too seriously: we laugh at the most ridiculous things… A sense of humour is critical for success in a fast-growing early-stage startup. If you are a part-time standup comedian that’s a bonus.
You are a team player with leadership skills who can manage a team as we grow
You are open-minded and an active listener who cares more about doing right than being right - no time or room for ego!
You have a positive attitude: our business can change very quickly, so being comfortable reacting quickly to unexpected opportunities and challenges is super important (especially in a crisis!)
You are a confident critical-thinker who can jump into different problems and present solutions rationally and logically
You rock a can-do attitude, strategic thinking and passion for startups (and food)
You are excited to be part of the YHANGRY family as one of the first 10 employees
You are ready to roll up your sleeves, work extremely hard and sometimes carry out tasks away from your core focus because they just need to get done.
Requirements:
You are A HUSTLER. You will need to get sh*t done in a major way and bulldoze through walls. You are someone who brings solutions not problems. We are leading the category, and for us to stay there, you will need to be relentless.
You have 3+ years of design experience at a design agency or in-house experience
You are experienced in product design/UX/UI
You are experienced in online and offline campaign design
An amazing portfolio packed with great layout, imagery and content curation alongside examples of animation skills as well as UX/UI design projects
Video editing experience and animation skills are a bonus
Branding experience is a bonus
You are a creative whizz who thinks outside the box - we are creating a new category, breaking the stereotype of stuffy elitist private chef services
You stay up to date with emerging design and digital trends and have a passion for design in digital and offline communications
You are organised - we’ve got so many projects happening at the same time and we need someone who has experience managing and working to a tight timeline
You are diligent, detailed, and efficient - to be honest, we don’t have time to be pedantic, but we can’t cope with typos either
You are a strong communicator who can deal with our engineer one minute and a social media manager the next - you are able to wear many hats at once!
You are resourceful and smart with our time and money
You are resilient and carry high standards for yourself as well as those around you - we’re looking for someone who is keen to keep growing and improving and can take constructive feedback and fly with it
You don’t take yourself too seriously: we laugh at the most ridiculous things… A sense of humour is critical for success in a fast-growing early-stage startup. If you are a part-time standup comedian that’s a bonus.
You are a team player with leadership skills who can manage a team as we grow
You are open-minded and an active listener who cares more about doing right than being right - no time or room for ego!
You have a positive attitude: our business can change very quickly, so being comfortable reacting quickly to unexpected opportunities and challenges is super important (especially in a crisis!)
You are a confident critical-thinker who can jump into different problems and present solutions rationally and logically
You are passionate about startups (and food)
You are excited to be part of the YHANGRY family as one of the first 10 employees
You are ready to roll up your sleeves, work extremely hard and sometimes carry out tasks away from your core focus because they just need to get done.
HEALTH TECH NEWS
Stage: Developing MVP
Health-Tech News (in process of being launched), a news platform focussing on technology, healthcare, medicine, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on sustainability, is looking for an intern to help manage its website. The aim of Health-Tech News is to provide updated and incisive news through interviews with experts in the various fields of news cover at a time that the world has been radically transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Healthcare in coming years will catch up with the shift e-commerce and professional work has made to the digital. As this occurs, there will be an expected move for consumers to take control of their own health as they seek to navigate our own health journey. This includes everything from sustainable cleaner air to being operated on by a robot controlled by a surgeon on the other side of the world. Health Tech news aims to provide – through its news video podcasts - be the definitive and authoritative word on this. The format involves brief, news-bulletin style (3-6 minutes max) formatted video interviews with expert leaders in the various fields of news cover. The video podcasts are anchored in a YouTube channel and are then through the Youtube channel subsequently fed into the Health-Tech website and onto social media.
WEBSITE AND SEO COORDINATOR
We are looking for students and recent graduates with expertise in building and managing a website, as well as interest in the field of journalism, health, technology, Artificial Intelligence and medicine. Ideally, we are looking for proactive and motivated self-starters looking to kick-start their careers in the digital news industry with an interest and experience in the world of video, newsgathering and production as well as social media. Meticulous attention to detail is a prerequisite. Given the startup nature of the Youtube Health-Tech news channel, interns will be interacting with the founders and involved in an exciting and fast-growing startup from day one. The internship involves a targeted and structured, hands-on work experience that will enhance the individual’s academic, professional, and personal development. Initially, it will involve a three-month unpaid internship, renewable for a second three months on a part-time basis, with the potential to extend to an ongoing role depending on performance and business growth. All work will be carried out for the foreseeable future by remote, so the position is open to CUTEC applicants based anywhere in the world.
The ideal candidate would be:
Interested in health, technology, artificial intelligence, and medicine
A self-starter, motivated, hardworking a fast learner and confident;
Energetic, enthusiastic, and driven to build their career;
Resilient, with a positive attitude, a desire to learn, and is always looking to over-deliver:
Proactive; happy to work as part of a team but also able to work independently:
Organised and experienced in working remotely
Social media manager
We are looking for students and recent graduates with expertise in building and managing a website, as well as interest in the field of journalism, health, technology, Artificial Intelligence and medicine. Ideally, we are looking for proactive and motivated self-starters looking to kick-start their careers in the digital news industry with an interest and experience in the world of video, newsgathering and production as well as social media. Meticulous attention to detail is a prerequisite. Given the startup nature of the Youtube Health-Tech news channel, interns will be interacting with the founders and involved in an exciting and fast-growing startup from day one. The internship involves a targeted and structured, hands-on work experience that will enhance the individual’s academic, professional, and personal development. Initially, it will involve a three-month unpaid internship, renewable for a second three months on a part-time basis, with the potential to extend to an ongoing role depending on performance and business growth. All work will be carried out for the foreseeable future by remote, so the position is open to CUTEC applicants based anywhere in the world.
The ideal candidate would be:
Interested in health, technology, artificial intelligence, and medicine
A self-starter, motivated, hardworking a fast learner and confident;
Energetic, enthusiastic, and driven to build their career;
Resilient, with a positive attitude, a desire to learn, and is always looking to over-deliver:
Proactive; happy to work as part of a team but also able to work independently:
Organised and experienced in working remotely
Requirements:
Experience in building and managing a website on a platform like WIX / Squarespace etc.
Knowledge and passion for SEO and overall internet marketing, surveys, and newsletter preparation
Ability to think creatively, strategically and identify and resolve problems
Attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task in a journalism/news context High levels of integrity, autonomy, and self-motivation
Requirements:
Experience and knowledge of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter
Able to execute a results-driven social media strategy.
Develop and curate engaging content for social media platforms.
Assist in the creation and editing of written, video, and photo content.
Maintain unified brand voice across different social media channels. Interact with users and respond to social media messages, inquiries, and comments.
Review analytics and create reports on key metrics. Assist in the development and management of social media marketing and influencer marketing strategy.
Becovalent
Stage: Developing MVP
Finding a 3D cell culture specialist in Cambridge is hard. It doesn't have to be. The mission of BeCoValent is to bring local teams together and make things happen. We aim to achieve this goal by building an app that combines social media and project management features in an innovative way so that finding a local collaborator with the right skillset in any field is quick and easy.
CIO/co-founder & Lead Software Developer (Part-time)
Responsibilities:
Adapt the website application to mobile devices
Contribute to frontend and backend development
Support in recruitment, selection, and management of developers in the team
Contribute to the business development proactively
Attend weekly team meetings
Requirements:
Essential technical skills:
Angular web app development
Firestore (Firebase) and Google Cloud Platform
Version control with Git/GitHub
Preferred technical skills:
User interfaces (UI/UX)
Full-stack developer experience
Other required skills
Good knowledge of project management platforms (e.g. Slack, Microsoft Teams)
Leadership and teamwork
Personal time management