Founding Engineer – Cybersecurity Start-Up – London

Overview

Founding Engineer role at a cybersecurity start-up in London. You join a lean, highly technical team and will shape the product as the company scales, partnering with the founders. You own meaningful problems from design to production, influencing architecture and delivery. The role emphasizes ownership, security focus, and cloud-native systems that deliver real-world impact. This is a unique opportunity to help set direction and drive rapid growth with a hands-on, collaborative team.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• meaningful equity
• small team with high ownership
• minimal red tape
• opportunity to influence product direction

Responsibilities

• Design and develop security-focused, cloud-native systems
• Tackle reliability, scalability, and security challenges in production
• Build across the stack with emphasis on backend development
• Collaborate with founders to steer technical decisions and product direction

Key requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proficiency in C#, Python, Go or Java
• Ability to work independently and own projects from architecture to delivery
• Excellent problem-solving and collaborative approach
• Bonus: experience with AWS, GCP or Azure

• collaborative
• problem-solving
• independent/self-driven
• C#
• Python
• Go or Java

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