Founding Infrastructure & Platform Engineer — AI-Native

C&D Talent Advisory - Academy; Reading; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in King's Cross

Job summary

TechTree in London is seeking a Founding Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform to own backend services and the cloud foundations that run them. You will shape a secure, scalable AI-native risk platform for regulated enterprises, with ownership from architecture to implementation.

You will work with leadership on technical direction, manage IaC with Terraform, and ensure observability, deployment pipelines, and SOC 2/ISO 27001 readiness as you scale with customers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Significant infrastructure ownership in production environments.
• Strong experience with a backend language (TypeScript/Node.js).
• Production experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and containerized workloads.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and security fundamentals.
• Experience owning systems through deployment and production operations.
• Knowledge of IAM, network isolation, and secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Build and own backend services across the platform.
• Develop APIs, asynchronous workflows, and 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.
• Build and maintain observability and deployment pipelines.
• Establish production on-call practices.

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure ownership

TypeScript

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Security fundamentals

IAM & access control

Network isolation

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Postgres

Kubernetes / AKS

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Job description

TechTree in London is seeking a Founding Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform to own backend services and the cloud foundations that run them. You will shape a secure, scalable AI-native risk platform for regulated enterprises, with ownership from architecture to implementation.

You will work with leadership on technical direction, manage IaC with Terraform, and ensure observability, deployment pipelines, and SOC 2/ISO 27001 readiness as you scale with customers.