Founding Engineer

Company Description Thea Labs is a Sweden-based OSINT company focused on helping Europe strengthen data independence and resilience. The organization aggregates scattered Nordic public data from registers, APIs, and notices into usable, high-quality datasets. Its machine learning pipelines transform public records into clean data, predictive signals, and focused studies tailored to specific questions.

Thea Labs serves teams in compliance and risk, investment and research, operations and planning, and B2B growth by delivering ready-to-use niche datasets, predictions, and qualified leads. The company offers a mission-driven environment for individuals interested in data, public information, and applied analytics.

Role Description The Founding Engineer will play a key role in designing and building the core data and ML infrastructure that powers Thea Labs’ OSINT platform. Day-to-day work includes developing data ingestion pipelines for public registers and APIs, implementing data normalization and quality checks, and building scalable systems to produce clean datasets and predictive signals.

The role involves close collaboration with founders and early team members to shape the technical roadmap, evaluate tools and architectures, and contribute to product features for compliance, risk, and research users. This is a full-time hybrid role based in Malmö, Sweden, with flexibility for partial or full work from home.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in languages commonly used for data and backend work (e.g., Python, Go, or similar), including experience building production-grade services and APIs.
• Experience with data engineering, including ingestion from diverse sources, ETL pipelines, data modeling, and working with structured and semi-structured public datasets.
• Background in machine learning or applied data science, such as building and deploying ML models, feature pipelines, and systems that generate predictive signals and analytical studies.
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices, including containers, CI/CD, monitoring, and security best practices for data-intensive applications.
• Ability to work in a founding team environment, including ownership of projects end-to-end, comfort with ambiguity, and collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.
• Degree not needed, skills and proven track record is.
• Strong communication skills in English; ability to document systems clearly and discuss trade-offs in architecture and implementation.
• Experience in sales is not required but it is a plus!