Europe's first AI-powered investor-startup matching platform is looking for builders who want to ship real features to real users from day one.
Leyoda is Europe's first AI-powered investor-startup matching platform — a discovery engine where investors swipe through startup profiles, our AI surfaces the best matches, and real deals happen. The platform is live, processing real startup data and investor interactions across Europe. We're now looking for interns and early hires who want to ship real features to real users from day one, across a modern full-stack environment (Java, React, Python AI, Docker).
We're looking for curious, self-driven builders — students or recent graduates in CS, Data Science, AI, or related fields who have built something outside of coursework. You should be a power user of AI tools — we develop with AI agents that autonomously run validation pipelines, enforce quality gates, and orchestrate multi-step workflows. You don't need to know our exact stack, but you need to learn fast, stay calm when things break, and care about quality. We value initiative over experience and resourcefulness over credentials.
This isn't a class project. It's a live product with real users, real data, and real infrastructure. Alexander and Sebastian came up with the original concept and recruited Alexandruas the technical cofounder to build it. The entire platform — backend, frontend, infrastructure, CI/CD, security, real-time systems — was architected and shipped by Alexandru. Roy, another cofounder, brought the Signal Engine concept from the environment we operate in. You'll be working directly with that level of ownership and execution.
Now we're looking for people who want to help take it to the next level.
You don't need to know all of this. You just need to be able to learn it.
Build features that go all the way from the database to the user’s screen. You’d write backend logic in Java, create frontend interfaces in React, set up database tables, write tests, and push it live — all in the same day. No waiting around for someone else to finish their part. You own the whole thing.
Make Leyoda’s brain smarter. We have an AI pipeline that reads research papers, extracts investment signals, groups them into themes, and scores opportunities on a 7-factor rubric. Your job is to make every step of that pipeline better — sharper signal extraction, smarter clustering, more accurate scoring.
Build interfaces that feel premium. Leyoda’s swipe cards run at 120 frames per second with physics-based animations, glass-morphism effects, and 3D perspective transforms. You’d own this experience — making it smooth on phones, tablets, and desktops, and building new interactive components that make investors want to keep swiping.
Take a system running on a single node with blue-green zero-downtime deployments and evolve it into something that can handle 100,000 users without breaking. Add observability so we know what’s happening. Add reliability so nothing fails at 3am. Build the foundation that lets everything else scale.
Not to a sandbox. Not to a demo. To a live platform used by real investors across Europe. We deploy multiple times per week. What you build on Monday can be serving requests by Tuesday.
Most internships put you in a corner of a giant codebase you’ll never understand. Here, you’ll touch the database, the backend, the frontend, the AI pipeline, and the deployment infrastructure.
How do you make a swipe animation feel smooth on a 5-year-old Android phone? How do you extract reliable signals from a messy research paper? These aren’t textbook exercises.
We orchestrate AI agents that bootstrap full project context, run autonomous validation pipelines, and enforce enterprise-grade quality gates — all without manual intervention.
You'll work directly with the cofounders. No layers of management. No Jira tickets from someone who's never read the code. Direct collaboration with the people who made every architectural decision — because they can explain every one of them.
We don't care about your GPA. We care about one thing:
A Discord bot. A mobile app. A web scraper. A personal website that's actually deployed. A script that automates something annoying. It doesn't need to be impressive — it just needs to exist. This environment isn't for everyone. Things move fast, expectations are high, and you'll be shipping real code from day one. But if that excites you more than it scares you — keep reading.
We're only hiring a small number of people. Tell us what you've built and what you'd want to work on.
Prefer email? contact@leyoda.eu — no formal cover letter needed.
We'd rather see your GitHub than your CV.
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