{"id":3068988,"url":"https://alion.io/job/userlink-founding-engineer","title":"Founding Engineer","company":{"id":2654196,"name":"Userlink","domain":"userlink.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/userlink","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Odense, Denmark"],"countries":["DK"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":71000,"max_usd":171000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":15},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Spring Boot","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-20T22:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T22:00:00Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":16,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":16},"description":"About Userlink\nUserlink runs AI agents in production at several hundred Nordic webshops, including Bahne, XL-BYG, Coolshop and Bygma. The agents handle the customer dialogue before and after the purchase, and every conversation ends up as structured data on demand and purchase barriers. The team is based in Odense.\nThe brain\nThe agents are the arms. The next layer is a system that brings together every signal about a webshop and its customers: conversations on chat, email, phone and social, on-site behaviour, orders, returns and reviews.\nThe system identifies the moments where a sale is won or lost and intervenes while the session is still live. It scores answer coverage per product and closes the gaps, quantifies objections and unmet demand, and traces returns back to the expectation that broke.\nLearning happens across all webshops, more than six million visits a month, where patterns become visible that no single shop has the traffic to see. Every intervention is measured against a control group. The patterns are shared, the data stays with each shop.\nThe hard problems are retrieval and evaluation of LLM output at scale, data isolation when patterns are shared across customers, latency in real-time flows, and attribution that holds up under scrutiny.\nThe stack\nJava with Spring Boot, React and MongoDB, with language models and vector search on top. Moving the backend to C# and .NET is under consideration.\nThe role\nYou are one of the first engineers on the brain and own parts of it from idea to production: data model, retrieval, evaluation and the real-time flows that intervene in the session. You write the code yourself, ship it and follow it when it meets real customers.\nThe work is not split into tickets in advance. You help decide what gets built, and how, and your choices become the foundation the next engineers build on.\nDecisions are made on arguments, not titles. Ideas get challenged regardless of where they come from, and the best one wins.\nWhy founding\nYou come in while the brain is taking shape. There is no finished architecture to follow, and the choices you make now are the ones everyone after you builds on.\nThat is why the role comes with equity. You help build the company, and you own part of what you build. 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