Founding Engineer

As Founding Engineer you will own core product development at a well-funded cloud security startup that uses decoy infrastructure to detect attackers. You’ll work closely with the technical founders to design and ship production-grade backend systems, shaping the engineering foundations as the company scales. Expect end-to-end ownership of technically complex components and a product-minded, pragmatic approach in a founding-team context. This role offers meaningful impact, early influence on architecture, and on-site collaboration in Central London.

• on-site in Central London
• flexible working arrangements

• own core product development and production software
• design and implement backend systems with end-to-end ownership
• ship meaningful features with a focus on scalable architecture
• collaborate directly with founders and cross-functional teammates
• drive engineering foundations and processes in a growing company
• work on a differentiated cloud security product leveraging decoy infrastructure

• 6–7+ years building production software
• strong backend engineering and system design fundamentals
• experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• comfortable owning technically complex systems end-to-end
• product-minded, pragmatic and able to operate without established processes

• ownership
• product-mindedness
• pragmatism
• backend engineering
• system design
• cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)