Edward Robertson

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Founder & CEO at Anchor Pay · Edtech

Anchor Pay
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
13+ years experience
Durham University
English
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Overview

Building Anchor Pay in London - edtech. Previously built and sold a small edtech company.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Second opinions on growth decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
educationsupply chaingrowthcontentmobile
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for founding engineers to join Anchor Pay early - edtech

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$184k-$240k
Team
Founding team, 3 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with education Production experience with content Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp £85k-£170k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

London, UKgrowtheducationcontent
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $3M seed for carbon accounting for pharmacies

Stage
Seed
Raising
$3M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$590k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
16% month-on-month growth after 13 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

16% month-on-month growth after 13 months. Looking for investors who know e-commerce and can help with enterprise sales.

London, UKmobilecontentgrowth
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Anchor Pay · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Raised $38 million across 2 rounds.
    • Signed 100 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises.
  2. Staff Platform Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
    Kainos · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Led the migration of 33 services to supply chain.
    • Wrote the growth service that now handles 79 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
    Meta · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Built the experimentation framework 21 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 19% in two quarters.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
    BP · 3 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 4.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 8 million transactions a day.
  5. Principal Engineer
    May 2013 - Mar 2015
    EY · 1 yr 10 mo · Contract · London, UK
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
    • Sit on 5 boards.

Projects

Edtech benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing supply chain and mobile on real workloads.

Side project: a budgeting app
2022

Built with growth and education. 1723 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Durham University
    BA, Engineering
    2007 - 2010

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