Founding Engineer - vehicle auto-pay startup
Location : London, Office-based/Hybrid
Salary : to £160k + 20% bonus + meaningful equity
This is a true greenfield build. The Founding Engineer will be the first technical hire and sole architect building an infrastructure layer for automated vehicle payments, where vehicles seamlessly pay for tolls, parking, and charging without any driver interaction.
The technology which YOU will build automatically detects when a vehicle enters a chargeable location and handles payment in the background using vehicle telematics and mobility APIs.
Youll work directly with an experienced founder to build and scale the platform. A technically hands-on yet entrepreneurial role, youll help design the architecture, build integrations with telematics providers and payment systems, create their geospatial decision engine, and lay the foundation for a world-class engineering organization.
This is a role for someone who enjoys building from first principles, moving quickly, and taking ownership of major technical decisions.
What Youll Work On: Design and build the core platform
Integrate with vehicle telematics providers and OEM APIs
Build geospatial systems that determine when vehicles enter and exit chargeable zones
Develop payment orchestration and billing infrastructure
Build fleet management and operational tooling
Create scalable backend services and APIs
Work directly with parking, tolling, and mobility partners
Establish engineering standards and technical culture
Help recruit and lead future engineering hires
Required Expertise: Building production backend systems using Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar languages
Designing and operating REST APIs and distributed systems
Cloud infrastructure and deployment on AWS
PostgreSQL and data-intensive applications
Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability
Third-party API integrations
Security and reliability best practices
Were less concerned with specific credentials and more interested in exceptional builders.
Nice-to-Haves, Experience of: Payments and fintech infrastructure
Geospatial systems, mapping, or geofencing
Fleet management, telematics, or connected vehicles
Mobility, transportation, or automotive technology
What Were Looking For: Strong product instincts
Ability to move quickly with limited resources
Comfortable making decisions with imperfect information
Excellent communication skills
Ownership mentality
Excited by early-stage startup environments
Interest in eventually leading an engineering team
The successful applicant will be one of the first employees; youll have significant ownership and influence over the product and company; the opportunity to build a category-defining mobility infrastructure platform; have direct access to customers and strategic partners; meaningful equity upside; work alongside a founder who has previously built and exited a company in the mobility space.
If youre excited about solving real-world problems at the intersection of mobility, payments, and software infrastructure, wed love to hear from you.
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