Founding Engineer — AI Platform Architect

Founders Factory

Greater London

On-site

GBP 55,000 - 60,000

Full time

14 days+

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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.