Founding Engineer - Konduit
Founders Factory
Overview
As Tech Lead / Founding Engineer at Konduit, you will define the architecture, build the core platform, and shape the long-term technical vision. You will work directly with the CEO across product, strategy, and commercial execution while delivering production code. You’ll establish the technical foundations and drive rapid value delivery for early customers in a regulated, data-driven marketplace. This is a founding role with high impact, shaping the future of insurance infrastructure.
Responsibilities- Architect the core Konduit platform
- Deliver MVP and onboard early customers
- Contribute to product strategy and commercial goals to accelerate value delivery
- Establish engineering best practices, infrastructure, and security foundations
- Develop the canonical data model powering the platform
- Integrate external data sources to enable intelligent allocation
- Product delivery experience in a tech startup environment
- Experience integrating third-party data providers and APIs in production
- Experience with complex data models and multi-party workflows
- Full-stack web development, data analysis, and applied AI
- Willingness to experiment with new technologies to drive innovation
- Experience in regulated or highly structured industries (insurance, fintech, payments, health, govtech) is a big plus
- Familiarity with compliance-aware system design (auditability, permissions, data lineage, security-by-default)
- Exposure to marketplace, platform, or workflow orchestration systems
- Prior experience as an early or founding engineer at a startup
- Direct collaboration with CEO across product and strategy
- Stakeholder communication and cross-functional teamwork
- Adaptive, startup-ready mindset
- Full-stack web development
- Data analysis
- Applied AI
Reference: WJ-747_30155364