Founding Engineer, Infrastructure & PlatformTT

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