Careers

Careers at Fluxa.

Not hiring yet. Fluxa is a lean UK team building a payment processor, ahead of launch and focused on shipping the founding cohort. When paid roles open, this page will show the team, the work, the expectations and the process in full. Speculative applications are welcome and read by the founders directly.

Lean by design.

Fluxa runs as a deliberately lean team. Engineering, product, design and brand sit on one side of the company. Compliance, operations, KYB and merchant correspondence sit on the other. Both sides are run end to end by their owners, and both sides ship.

Five production AI agents handle the supporting work that would otherwise queue for a human: merchant support 24/7, onboarding assistance, platform health monitoring, revenue integrity checks, and regulatory coverage. The agents are part of the product, not staff. They reduce the support headcount Fluxa needs at each stage of growth, but they do not replace a hire when the role calls for judgement, ownership, or a difficult conversation with a merchant.

The team will grow when the constraint stops being build capacity and starts being merchant-facing capacity. That moment will be visible in the queue: support replies slowing down, onboarding cohorts backing up, founding-cohort merchants asking for something the current team cannot ship fast enough. When it arrives, the next role will be listed in full on this page.

How working at Fluxa will feel.

Remote-friendly, UK-based.

The team is in the UK and the time zone is London. You can work from anywhere with reliable internet, provided you have UK right-to-work and reasonable overlap with UK working hours. No mandatory in-person days, no return-to-office mandate, no surprise relocations.

Direct with Fluxa.

Every hire works directly with a founder on the actual problem. No project managers, no skip levels, no deck-driven planning cadence. The org chart stays flat for as long as it can; decisions are made on the quality of the idea, not the seniority of the person proposing it.

Written-first, async by default.

Most decisions happen in writing on Linear, GitHub, or a short doc. Meetings are reserved for things genuinely better as a conversation. Outcomes are measured by what shipped and by merchant feedback, not by hours logged or seat time.

No theatre.

No status meetings for the sake of it, no slide decks for what could be a paragraph, no leadership offsites. No monitoring software, no time-tracking, no performance review process designed to fill a calendar. Time in meetings has to earn its rent against time building or supporting merchants.

When the first hire happens.

The first paid hire is planned once there is reliable monthly revenue from live merchants. Realistic timing: Q3 to Q4 2026, contingent on cohort onboarding speed and payments partner sign-off. The date will be posted here when it firms up.

The first role will be one of two shapes. The order depends on which constraint becomes tighter first: build capacity or merchant-facing capacity. As of May 2026, both are still manageable with the current two-person team and the AI agents.

A second technical builder Full-stack, comfortable with payments, ideally with PCI or payments exposure. Reports into the engineering side of the company. Email careers@fluxapay.co.uk to register interest.

A merchant success operator UK-based, comfortable handling KYB, dispute evidence, settlement queries and onboarding calls. Reports into the operations side of the company. Email careers@fluxapay.co.uk to register interest.

Compensation will be benchmarked competitively against UK payments roles, weighted to equity in Fluxa Ltd for the early team. Standard UK statutory benefits (pension, holiday, sick leave) plus the things that matter: decent equipment, no monitoring software, no time-tracking, no surprise on-call. We do not work with recruitment agencies; direct applications only.

What Fluxa hires for.

Fluxa hires people the team is excited to work with. The bar is set high because the company is small, the work is regulated, and every hire shapes what Fluxa becomes. Every applicant is assessed against the same six baseline competencies; senior or specialist roles will list additional requirements in the job description when posted. The evidence that satisfies each competency differs by discipline.

Production delivery

Evidence of having built and shipped software, processes, or operational tooling that real users or merchants have relied on. Assessment is on the systems built and the decisions made building them, not on the languages or frameworks listed on a CV. Prior payments experience is welcome; the willingness and capacity to learn the domain is essential.
Security and regulatory awareness

A baseline understanding of how regulated systems work and why. For engineering: PCI-DSS scope, the OWASP Top 10, tokenisation patterns, and the principle that handling card data is a privilege with rules attached. For operations: the UK regulatory landscape, including the Payment Services Regulations 2017, FCA expectations of the payments partner, and the KYB and sanctions obligations that follow.
Domain readiness

A genuine interest in the payments domain and the discipline to learn it. Technical roles will be expected to develop fluency in 3DS2, scheme rules, chargeback workflows, settlement timing, and reconciliation. Operations roles will be expected to develop fluency in KYB, sanctions screening, dispute evidence, and FCA reporting frameworks. Neither requires prior certification; both require curiosity and structured study.
Clear written communication

Most decisions at Fluxa happen in writing: on tickets, in pull requests, on internal documents, and in correspondence with merchants and regulated partners. The ability to write clear, structured prose that survives forwarding to a non-technical reader is a core working tool, not an optional polish. Candidates are assessed on the quality of their written reasoning alongside their verbal explanation.
Independent judgement

A lean team relies on every member taking work end to end, escalating risk early, and making sensible decisions when the path forward is ambiguous. Senior pedigree at a large company is not, on its own, evidence of this. Comfort with ambiguity, ownership of outcomes, and the judgement to know when to pause and ask are the qualities that distinguish an effective hire at the founding-team stage.
Reliability, punctuality and team fit

Technical skill is necessary; on its own it is not sufficient. Fluxa hires people the rest of the team wants to work alongside, measured against practical and observable standards: meeting commitments on the timeline agreed, arriving on time to calls and reviews, communicating early when something will slip, and treating colleagues, partners and merchants with the same care regardless of who is in the room. The team is small enough that one unreliable hire changes the working day of every other person on it.

Open roles, equal opportunity, applicant data.

UK employment law requires a small set of things to be stated in writing on a careers page. We take them seriously and they are listed below in plain English. Every claim here is checkable against either UK statute or this site.

Open roles today: None. Fluxa is pre-launch and not recruiting at scale. When a paid role opens, it will be listed in full on this page with a clear job description, salary band, location requirement and application route.
Equal opportunity: Fluxa is an equal opportunity employer. We consider every speculative or live application on its merits and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. These are the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 .
Right to work: Applicants must have the existing right to work in the United Kingdom. Visa support is not available at this stage.
Reasonable adjustments: If anything about the application process would be easier with an adjustment, write to careers@fluxapay.co.uk with what would help. No diagnosis or proof is required. The adjustment is the answer; the request does not affect how the application is assessed.
Applicant data: Speculative applications are kept for 12 months from receipt, then deleted, unless the applicant has asked us to keep them on file longer. CVs and emails are stored on UK-hosted systems and are read only by the founders. Lawful basis: legitimate interest under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Subject access, deletion and rectification requests go to privacy@fluxapay.co.uk.
No recruitment agencies: Fluxa does not work with recruitment agencies and does not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Any agency CV sent unsolicited is considered the property of Fluxa and no fee is owed. Direct applications only.
References and checks: Card processing is a regulated activity. Before any offer is confirmed Fluxa will carry out the reference, identity and disclosure checks appropriate to the role: typically two professional references, right-to-work documentation, identity verification, and, for any role with access to merchant or card data, a basic UK criminal record disclosure obtained through the relevant Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland process. Candidates are told in writing which checks apply to the role they are interviewing for before they begin.
Application route: Email careers@fluxapay.co.uk with one paragraph on what you would want to build, one link to something you have shipped, and a CV or LinkedIn. No cover letter, no questionnaire, no application form. Mail goes to the founders directly. If you sound like a good fit, you will hear back within one working week.
Company: Fluxa Ltd · Companies House 17028144 · registered in England and Wales · private limited company

If anything on this page is unclear or feels at odds with what a careers page should say, write to careers@fluxapay.co.uk and the wording will be reviewed. We would rather rewrite a sentence than have an applicant guess at our intent.

Want to work at Fluxa one day?

Speculative applications are welcome and read by the founders directly. One paragraph on what you would want to build, one link to something you have shipped, a CV or LinkedIn. No cover letter, no questionnaire, no application form. If you sound like a good fit, you will hear back within one working week.

Engineering, product, design

Anything code, product or design-shaped. Full-stack, frontend, backend, infrastructure, payments engineering.

careers@fluxapay.co.uk

Operations, compliance, merchant success

KYB, dispute evidence, settlement queries, onboarding, regulatory liaison, merchant correspondence.

careers@fluxapay.co.uk

Adjustments to the application process: careers@fluxapay.co.uk.

No recruitment agencies. Direct applications only.