# Founding Engineer (Product)

Founding Product Engineer London · £120K-£200K plus equity · Visa sponsorship available The Mission We are replacing the Management Consulting industry with software. The $1 trillion consulting industry is powered by some of the world’s brightest minds, yet they remain trapped in manual, inefficient workflows: spreadsheet orchestration, slide-deck assembly, and fragmented data synthesis. We proved it on ourselves first. Our advisory business serves six private equity funds across the UK, Europe and the US, and one Riplo consultant delivers an engagement that a tier-one firm staffs with a full team. The platform we built behind that work is now open to the world. Next, we are running the same playbook on a much bigger market: AI transformations for PE funds and the companies they own. Our team comes from QuantumBlack/McKinsey, BCG, DeepMind, Hg Capital and KKR. Cherry Ventures, Blue Lion and the founders of QuantumBlack back us, with angels from OpenAI, McKinsey, BCG and Apple. We are nine people, and we are hiring one Founding Product Engineer. The Challenge As our Founding Product Engineer, your role is not just “writing code”. You will report directly to our CTO, and define the p

- **Id**: 4027299
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/riplo-founding-engineer-product>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T13:45:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:24:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3406
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Advisory, Valuation & Restructuring

## Company

- **Id**: 4411337
- **Name**: Riplo
- **Domain**: riplo.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/riplo-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 266347

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes
- **WebSockets** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:24:14Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:06:29Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 266347
- **Is top pay**: yes

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