Founding Engineer, Infrastructure & PlatformTT
Job Summary
Were looking for a Founding Engineer to own the backend services and the infrastructure foundations they run on. This hire exists to ensure the platform is secure compliant and trustworthy enough to win multi-year enterprise contracts. Think CTO going back to being an IC a highly autonomous product-minded engineer who thinks about architecture users and shipping.
Location: London United Kingdom (On-site)
Employment Type: Full-time
Seniority: Mid-Senior Level
Core stack: TypeScript Azure Terraform SOC 2 ISO 27001 CI/CD multi-tenant infrastructure
About the Company
A seed-stage company building AI-native risk infrastructure for regulated enterprises like banks and hospitals.
What Were Looking For
- 6 years of backend engineering experience with clear infrastructure ownership
- Production experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong professional experience with a backend language ideally TypeScript or
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing compliance controls (SOC 2 ISO 27001) and security posture (IAM network segmentation)
- Based in London on-site
- Operational maturity and an AI-first development mindset (e.g. using tools like Claude Code)
Nice to Have
- Experience with Azure (Container Apps Service Bus Front Door Entra ID)
- Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS isolation across compute data and network layers
- Pedigree from top tech companies or top AI labs
- Entrepreneurial signals such as former founders side projects or technical conference talks