Founding Engineer
Hybrid (New York, NY)$120k - $200kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Founding engineer role at Solva to build core product, shape technical direction, and grow the engineering team from the ground up. Ownership-focused position spanning backend, infrastructure, and frontend work with direct collaboration with founders.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production systems for our core products
- Lead on infrastructure and backend (Go, Rust, Kotlin, Postgres, GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Work across the stack where needed (React, Vite, TypeScript)
- Ship fast, iterate with customers and turn messy problems into clean, scalable systems
- Collaborate with the CTO on the long-term technical vision and future team structure
Qualifications
- Strong backend and infrastructure experience (cloud, infra-as-code, scaling systems, observability)
- Ability to own technical decisions and balance pragmatism with long-term design
- Excited to build directly with customers in complex, real-world industries
- Joy in moving fast, breaking down ambiguity on a whiteboard and making solid engineering judgement calls
- Leadership mindset: eager to shape culture, mentor future hires, and grow into a key technical leader
Skills
Required:Backend developmentCloud / Infra as CodeArchitecture & Technical Leadership
Nice to have:Customer-facing collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Solva
Automates insurance claims and stops incorrect payouts
Harvey for insurance - AI that automates insurance claims and stops wrongful payouts We've spent the last decade battling legacy systems and dogma across highly regulated sectors of the financial industry. Between the three of us we have experience from scaling Europe’s fastest-growing InsurTech and founding a licensed bank (EBA CRD CI).