OAbout DrivePay
DrivePay is building the infrastructure layer for automated vehicle payments.
Today, drivers, rental customers, and fleet operators must manually manage parking, tolls, congestion charges, airport drop-offs, and other road-related payments across dozens of disconnected systems.
DrivePay automatically detects when a vehicle enters a chargeable location and handles payment in the background using vehicle telematics and mobility APIs.
We’re initially focused on rental fleets, where the problem is most acute: drivers frequently incur charges during short rentals, creating significant operational overhead, unpaid charges, and customer frustration.
Our vision is simple: if a vehicle knows where it is, it should be able to pay automatically.
The Role
We’re looking for our first technical hire to work directly with the founder to build and scale the DrivePay platform.
This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building from first principles, moving quickly, and taking ownership of major technical decisions.
You’ll help design the architecture, build integrations with telematics providers and payment systems, create our geospatial decision engine, and lay the foundation for a world-class engineering organization.
What You’ll Work On
· Design and build DrivePay’s 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
Ideal Experience
We’re less concerned with specific credentials and more interested in exceptional builders.
You may have experience in:
· Building products and engineering teams from zero to one
· Backend engineering and distributed systems
· Fintech or payments infrastructure
· Mobility, automotive, telematics, or fleet software
· Geospatial systems and location intelligence
· High-scale API platforms
· Cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Technical Expertise
The ideal candidate will have experience with many of the following:
· 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
Experience in one or more of the following areas is particularly valuable:
· Payments and fintech infrastructure
· Geospatial systems, mapping, or geofencing
· Fleet management, telematics, or connected vehicles
· Mobility, transportation, or automotive technology
What We’re 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
Nice to Have
· Experience with telematics providers such as Geotab, Samsara, or OEM APIs
· Experience with payment systems
· Mapping or geospatial expertise
· Experience building B2B SaaS products
· Previous startup or founder experience
Why Join?
· Be one of the first employees
· Significant ownership and influence over the product and company
· Opportunity to build a category-defining mobility infrastructure platform
· 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 you’re excited about solving real-world problems at the intersection of mobility, payments, and software infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.
Pay: Up to £120,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee stock ownership plan
- Profit sharing
Work Location: In person
