Founding Engineer

Founders Factory; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Founders Factory is seeking a Tech Lead / Founding Engineer for our London Studio. This full-time, onsite role partners with the CEO to shape our platform, technical vision, and the future of Konduit.

You will architect and build the core Konduit platform, deliver the MVP, onboard early customers, and align engineering with product and commercial goals. You’ll drive best practices, data models, and security foundations in a regulated, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Startup environment delivering product.
• Integrating third-party data providers and APIs in production.
• Experience with complex data models and multi-party workflows.
• Experience across full-stack web development, data analysis, and applied AI.
• Willingness to experiment with new technologies.
• Experience in regulated industries (insurance/fintech/payments/health/govtech) is advantageous.
• Familiarity with compliance-aware system design, including auditability, permissions, data lineage, and security-by-default.
• Exposure to marketplace, platform, or workflow orchestration systems.
• Prior experience as an early or founding engineer at a startup.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the core Konduit platform.
• Deliver the MVP and onboard early customers.
• Feed into product strategy and commercial goals to identify opportunities to quickly deliver customer value.
• Establish engineering best practices, infrastructure, and security foundations.
• Develop the Konduit canonical data model that underpins our platform.
• Integrate external data sources to power an intelligent allocation layer.

Skills

Startup experience

API integration

Data modeling

Full-stack development

Applied AI

Experimentation with new technologies

Compliance-aware system design

Platform/workflow systems

Early/founding engineer experience

Regulated industries experience

Tools

Rails

Ruby

AI

Security

Web

Job description

Salary: £55,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to deliver product in a tech startup environment
• Experience integrating third-party data providers and APIs in production environments
• Experience working with complex data models and multi-party workflows
• Experience across full-stack web development, data analysis, and applied AI
• Appetite for experimenting with new technologies and tools to drive innovation and creativity
• Experience building products in regulated or highly structured industries such as insurance, fintech, payments, health, or govtech would be a big advantage
• Familiarity with compliance-aware system design, including auditability, permissions, data lineage, and security-by-default
• Exposure to marketplace, platform, or workflow orchestration systems
• Prior experience as an early or founding engineer at a startup

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the core Konduit platform
• Deliver the MVP and onboard early customers
• Feed into product strategy and commercial goals to identify opportunities to quickly deliver customer value
• Establish engineering best practices, infrastructure, and security foundations
• Develop the Konduit canonical data model that underpins our platform
• Integrate external data sources to power an intelligent allocation layer

Technologies

• AI
• Architect
• Support
• Security
• Web
• Rails
• Ruby

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We build and fund startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and leading companies. Headquartered in London and operating globally, we back visionary founders with capital, dedicated support from a team of expert operators, and access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. Since 2015, we have backed 450+ portfolio companies and helped them secure over 500 enterprise pilots with blue chip corporate partners such as Aviva, Vonovia, Rio Tinto, and HSBC. Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs from day one, developing new ideas, technologies, and business models into high-growth companies. We are building Konduit, a category-defining insurance infrastructure venture backed by Aviva and incubated by us. The role is for a Tech Lead / Founding Engineer in our London Studio on a full-time, onsite basis, working directly with the CEO to shape the platform, technical vision, and the future of the company.

last updated 36 week of 2026