CTO & Co-Founder at Insurtech Infrastructure Venture

📋 Job Overview

Malcolm is building the infrastructure layer for AI-powered insurance distribution: the system that sits between AI agents and insurer APIs, making conversational flows reliable, compliant, and production ready. We’re live with Aviva, we have a small engineering team in place, and we have a clear vision of what we’re working towards. We’re looking for a technical co-founder to take ownership of where we go from here.

🏢 About Malcolm

Malcolm is in production with Aviva for Home and Life insurance, operating through MCP (Model Context Protocol) and 1st party chat experiences. We have a small engineering team, a clear technical roadmap, and a founder who has deep domain and commercial context.

🎯 The Role

This is not a “head of engineering” role with a defined brief. As CTO and co-founder, you’ll take full ownership of technical direction:

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define the architecture of the multi-class, multi-insurer platform - a genuinely interesting infrastructure problem at every layer.
• Lead the build of our agent-first orchestration engine: the conversational layer that sits at the heart of Malcolm’s differentiation.
• Grow and lead the engineering team (currently 1-3 engineers), hiring deliberately as the roadmap demands.
• Work directly with insurer partners on integrations - the commercial context matters here and you’ll be in those conversations.
• Be a genuine co-founder partner to the CEO: product strategy, commercial decisions, fundraising narrative.

📌 Required Qualifications

• You’ve built and shipped production systems.
• You have strong opinions about architecture and you can defend them.
• You can write code and you can lead a team that writes code better than you.
• You’re excited by the specific problem here - not just AI in the abstract, but the precise challenge of making LLM-led conversational flows deterministic enough to operate in a regulated financial services context. You understand why that’s hard.
• You want to build a company, not just a product. You’ll have real input on commercial and product direction, and you’ll find that energising rather than distracting.
• You’re London-based, or willing to be.
• You’re comfortable with early-stage ambiguity and you know the difference between moving fast and moving carelessly in a regulated industry.

🎁 Benefits

This is a meaningful co-founder stake. You should expect to be a long-term owner of the company, not an early employee with options.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

You’re London-based, or willing to be.