HelmGuard Technologies, Inc. - Founding Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform
Requirements
• 6+ years of backend engineering, with deep infrastructure experience — you ship services, and you own how they run • Strong in a backend language - TypeScript ideally, or an adjacent one with an appetite to switch • Production IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions or similar), and container orchestration • Strong security posture: IAM, network segmentation, secrets, supply chain • End-to-end compliance ownership (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar): designing the controls, not just answering about them • Operational maturity: you've been on-call for systems that mattered • AKS, Service Bus, or Front Door at scale • Running infrastructure for an audit-sensitive product • Culture and Values • We value a diversity of perspectives and experiences. We also hold a small set of core beliefs that reflect how we operate, and share them transparently with candidates so the fit is clear from the outset. • Put Customers First. Our customers buy outcomes from us, not features. We judge every decision by whether it delivers on that promise. • Put Customers First. • Take Ownership. Founding-stage means problems don't come pre-scoped. You see something that needs doing, scope it, ship it, own the outcome. We expect this from everyone, and provide you the backing to execute on it. • Take Ownership. • Work Hard, With Gratitude. This is the most consequential window for building enterprise software in a generation. We work hard because the opportunity is rare, and we do it with gratitude for the moment, for the people we get to build it with, and for the customers willing to bet on us this early. • Work Hard, With Gratitude. • Say the Silly Thing. The best ideas usually start out sounding half-baked, so we'd rather you say the silly thing than sit on it. We want you opinionated and willing to argue, and just as willing to change your mind when someone makes a better case. Disagreement here is a contribution, not a risk. • Say the Silly Thing. • Working at HelmGuard • Location. King's Cross, London (Gridiron building). We're built around in-person collaboration and expect most days to be in-office, with flexibility for the days that need it. • Location. • Compensation. Top decile for the London market, with meaningful EMI-eligible options.
Responsibilities
• Build and own backend services across the platform, APIs, async workflows, and data models with the same care you bring to the infrastructure under them • Shape our Azure foundations: Container Apps, Service Bus, Front Door, Entra ID, all under Terraform • Design multi-tenant isolation patterns across compute, data, and network layers - at the service layer and the infra layer • Own the deployment pipelines, observability stack, and on-call posture as the platform scales • Build the platform capabilities the rest of the team depends on: long-running agent jobs, large document processing, secure tool execution • Drive compliance evidence automation and the broader compliance plumbing • Build up internal skill files, scripts and tools to allow others to easily develop new features whilst keeping the platform secure and reliable
Benefits
• Perks. Daily team lunch and specialty coffee, a roof terrace overlooking King's Cross, on-site showers for those who enjoy active commuting, and serious per-engineer AI tooling and API budgets. • Interview process. Three stages: behavioural phone screen, technical phone screen, and a paid on-site work trial. Target turnaround is under two weeks from first conversation. • Interview process. • Tech Stack. TypeScript, Node.js, React, Tailwind, OpenAPI, Express, Azure (Container Apps, Service Bus, Front Door, Entra ID), Postgres, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker. Anthropic-first AI with in-house evals and scaffolding. Claude Code throughout.
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