Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
C&D Talent Advisory
Founding Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform London

About the opportunity

Join a seed-stage company building AI-native risk infrastructure for regulated enterprises
Build systems used by customers across financial services, regulated technology, and healthcare
Own both core backend services and the infrastructure foundations they run on
Shape a platform where security, compliance, reliability, and enterprise trust are critical to winning customers
Work directly on architecture that supports multi-year enterprise deployments
Operate with founding-team levels of ownership and autonomy
Partner closely with company leadership on technical direction and platform evolution

What you’ll own

Build and own backend services across the platform
Develop APIs, asynchronous workflows, and core data models
Design and maintain cloud infrastructure foundations
Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
Design secure multi-tenant isolation across compute, data, and network layers
Own deployment pipelines and CI/CD infrastructure
Build and maintain observability systems
Establish and improve production on-call practices
Develop infrastructure for long-running AI agent workloads
Build systems for large-scale document processing
Design secure execution environments for AI tools and agents
Automate compliance evidence collection
Build infrastructure supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks
Develop internal tooling that allows engineers to ship quickly without compromising security or reliability

What we’re looking for

6+ years of backend engineering experience
Significant infrastructure ownership in production environments
Strong professional experience with a backend programming language
Strong TypeScript or Node.js experience preferred
Production experience with Terraform
Strong CI/CD experience
Experience with containerized production workloads
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure
Experience owning systems through deployment and production operations
Strong security fundamentals
Experience with IAM and access-control architecture
Experience with network segmentation
Strong understanding of secrets management
Awareness of software supply-chain security
Experience designing and implementing compliance controls
Hands on ownership of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or comparable compliance programs
Operational maturity from supporting production systems that matter
Ability to balance rapid product delivery with security and reliability requirements
High level of autonomy and technical ownership

Particularly valuable experience

Strong profile signals

Former founder or technical founder
Former CTO returning to an individual-contributor role
Founding or early-stage engineering experience
Strong product-engineering mindset
History of owning architecture as well as implementation
Experience shipping backend systems directly used by customers
Startup-style production ownership
Side projects or evidence of independent technical building
Technical talks, open-source work, or other evidence of deep engineering interest
Experience working in environments where reliability and compliance directly affect commercial outcomes
Strong AI-first development mindset
Comfortable using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or equivalent

This role may not be the right fit if you

Have primarily front-end engineering experience
Lack meaningful backend or infrastructure ownership
Have worked exclusively in cybersecurity without hands on product engineering
Have primarily Developer Relations or Developer Experience experience
Have spent your career only on internal tooling without customer facing product impact
Have limited experience operating production systems
Have no practical Infrastructure as Code or CI/CD experience
Have only participated in compliance processes rather than designing and implementing controls
Prefer highly specialized infrastructure work without broader product ownership
Prefer large company structures with narrowly defined responsibilities
Are not comfortable working primarily on-site in London

What you’ll get

Founding-level technical ownership
Significant influence over platform architecture
Direct impact on which enterprise customers the company can support
Opportunity to build secure, production grade AI infrastructure from an early stage
Exposure to complex enterprise security and compliance requirements
Close collaboration with company leadership
Top-decile London market compensation
Meaningful EMI eligible equity
Strong AI tooling and API budgets
Daily team lunch
Specialty coffee
King’s Cross office with roof terrace and on site facilities
High autonomy engineering environment
Opportunity to build both product and infrastructure systems end-to-end

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