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title: 'Founding Engineer at Solva Technology'
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# Founding Engineer at Solva Technology

- **Company:** Solva Technology
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solva/c2218bb1-e112-4f04-b9dc-6f121cfc59f0

## Job description

## ABOUT SOLVA

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.

## 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. If it makes sense; we do the hard stuff most only say they do. Read a paper or 10 if you must. We’re looking for someone who truly wants to innovate.

You’ll have a defining role in building the core product and further expanding the engineering team.

One week you’ll be deep in backend systems and cloud infrastructure, the next you’ll be making the architectural decisions that define how claims decisions worth multiple billions are made.

This is a true ownership role. 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.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Architect and build production systems for our core products
- Lead on infrastructure and backend (Go, Python, 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
- Help build a great engineering culture and play a key role in shaping the long term technical vision

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- Gold star if you’ve built something impressive in the AI space
- 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

## About Solva Technology

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Solva provides a domain-specific AI platform that automates insurance claims handling, enables real-time QA audits of 100% of claims, and prevents wrongful payouts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (YC Startup, backed by Y Combinator)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Herman Båverud Olsson (CEO & Co-Founder), Linus Malmén (CTO & Co-Founder), Sorena Amini (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Insurance Technology (InsurTech) / Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – insurance carriers, claims departments, and third-party administrators (enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Redesign claims & compliance” by giving insurers clarity and speed on the most complex claims, reducing leakage and improving loss ratios.

## Products & Services
- **AI Claims Assessment**: AI agents that triage FNOLs, extract policy violations, flag missing information, and deliver source-cited claim recommendations.
- **Real-Time QA Audits**: Platform audits 100% of claims (open and closed) to surface compliance gaps, leakage, and reserve issues before they compound.
- **Leakage & Fraud Detection**: Identifies incomplete evidence, breaches of policy terms, and fraudulent behavior.
- **Multi-Modal FNOL with Auto-Triage**: Automates first notice of loss handling.
- **Compliance Framework**: Built-in support for GDPR, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and SOC 2 Type 2 (currently under evaluation) – suitable for highly regulated insurance environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private startup).
- **Key Metric**: Raised **$500K** in an Accelerator/Incubator round (Y Combinator) as of January 2025.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (primary partner: Gustaf Alstromer). Backed by “insurance leaders behind $220B+ in premiums”.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Batch: Y Combinator Summer 2025.
  - Team size: **15** (per YC profile).
  - Founders previously built a $100M+ GWP insurance business and AI processing of $1B+ in payouts.
  - Already trusted by “world’s leading insurers” (client names not disclosed).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain-specific AI**: Built by insurance veterans who understand complex claims workflows – not generic large language models.
- **100% audit coverage**: Competitors typically review less than 5% of claims; Solva audits the entire portfolio in real time.
- **Verifiable, source-cited recommendations**: Every AI suggestion is backed by specific claim and policy documents, avoiding “black box” decisions.
- **Compliance readiness**: Certified (ISO 27001) and designed for European/SOC2/HIPAA environments out of the box.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale adoption among top-tier insurance carriers.
- Automate end-to-end claim workflows, moving beyond simple document summarization to complex decision support.
- Continue to develop self-learning AI agents that adapt to each client’s rules and policies.
- Strengthen real-time leakage detection and subrogation/risk transfer capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage YC startup with a tight, experienced founding team (former InsurTech CEO, neobank CTO, P&C expert).
- **Work mode**: Based in New York, NY; remote/hybrid policy not specified but likely office-centric given startup stage.
- **Impact**: Engineers will directly shape AI agents that process billions in claims – high ownership and visibility.
- **Notable perks**: Competitive salary ($120K–$200K range for Founding Engineer), equity typical of YC startups, opportunity to work on regulated AI systems at scale.
- **Engineering culture**: Hands-on, full-stack, high autonomy; building for reliability, auditability, and security.

## Sources
1. [solvatechnology.com](https://www.solvatechnology.com/)
2. [solvatechnology.com/about-us](https://www.solvatechnology.com/about-us)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/solva](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solva)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/solva](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solva)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/904253-50](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/904253-50)

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