Solva
Founding Engineer
New York City
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 313 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoReactVitePostgreSQLDatabricksAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLeadership
About the role
- As founding engineer you will work alongside a team of experienced 2x-founders and ex-Apple engineers.
- Set the bar for AI security and accountability - there are no (good) best practices so we're creating them ourselves.
- we do the hard stuff most only say they do.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production systems for our core products
- Lead on infrastructure and backend (Go, Python, Postgres, GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Ability to own technical decisions and balance pragmatism with long-term design
- You won't just ship code, you'll help set the technical direction, lead initiatives on new projects, and take part in building the engineering team and culture from the ground up.
Requirements
- Strong backend and infrastructure experience (cloud, infra-as-code, scaling systems, observability)
Benefits
- Help build a great engineering culture and play a key role in shaping the long term technical vision
Company info
- Solva is building AI for insurers to transform an $8 trillion industry, starting with claims.
- We're backed by $6m from First Round, Y Combinator, SV Angel and angel investors, including Paul Graham, that have funded companies such as OpenAI, Google, Stripe, Anthropic, Databricks and Github.
- We have an advisory board of experienced insurance executives and founders.
- Our team was previously part of building Europe's fastest growing InsurTech and founded a licensed EU bank processing payments of €1B/yr+.
- Now we are taking on one of the world's largest industries and rebuilding it from the ground up with AI.
- Solva is a Y Combinator S25 company and has emerged as one of the fastest growing and best-funded startups.
- Ship fast, iterate with customers and turn messy problems into clean, scalable systems
- Excited to build directly with customers in complex, real-world industries
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