Founding Product Engineer at Goodley
- Location
- Remote (United Kingdom)
- Compensation
- £80k-£100k + Equity
Compliance is one of the largest manual functions in insurance, and Goodley is using AI to automate it from the ground up. As the Founding Product Engineer, you will join a venture-backed team of three to build the core infrastructure that regulated companies depend on for continuous, embedded oversight.
This isn't about building features; it's about designing the operating layer for the future of regulation. If you are a systems-thinking engineer who wants high ownership and meaningful equity in a UK-based remote startup, this is your chance to shape a massive industry.
What's the next step?
Goodley are hiring from Jack's network. Talk to Jack for free and get a direct introduction to the team, if a good fit.
Role overview
As a Founding Product Engineer at Goodley, you will design and build the core operating layer that regulated companies use to automate continuous compliance. You will own the full system architecture, from workflow orchestration and deep integrations to the evidence infrastructure that provides transparency and trust for complex AI-driven decisions.
About Goodley
Insurance · 1–10+ employees
Goodley is building an autonomous governance layer for regulated companies. It continuously interprets regulatory obligations and verifies that a company is meeting those obligations.
What you will do
- Design and implement the core application architecture, including workflow engines, authentication, and compliance monitoring dashboards.
- Build robust integrations with existing enterprise ecosystems like Slack, CRMs, and document management systems to enable real-time compliance verification.
- Develop the critical observability and evidence layer that captures decision timelines and regulatory references to satisfy audit requirements.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience building infrastructure-heavy SaaS products, developer platforms, or complex workflow engines from the ground up.
- Strong architectural thinker comfortable working across the full stack with a modern toolkit like TypeScript, Python, or Go.
- Thrives in early-stage environments with high ambiguity and possesses the speed and breadth to ship foundational systems that must be reliable and trusted.
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Why this role is remarkable
- Join a founding team of three as the primary architect of a platform designed to disrupt the massive, stagnant insurance compliance sector.
- Work directly with a seasoned founder who previously scaled a pet insurance leader to over 200,000 customers and understands the market’s deepest pain points.
- High-impact opportunity to build a trusted system from scratch, moving beyond simple demos to create the essential infrastructure for AI-driven regulated workflows.
How Jack & Jill work together
What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and Goodley wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.