Founding Solutions Engineer — London (Equity & Growth)

Cakewalk; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

London office (3 days a week)

Hybrid work

Job summary

Cakewalk, a London-based access management startup, is hiring its first Solutions Engineer. You'll be the technical counterpart in customer conversations—from discovery to rollout—running POCs and architecting integrations against real identity stacks.

As the first SE hire, you'll define the function, build reusable assets, and shape product feedback. Expect high ownership, direct impact, and a path to leading your own team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in solutions engineering or similar customer-facing technical role.
• Startup experience in early-stage SaaS (without a playbook).
• Strong development skills: APIs, scripting, automation, and building integrations.
• Practical IAM knowledge: SSO, SCIM, OAuth, RBAC, provisioning.
• Experience integrating with identity platforms, security tools or AI frameworks.
• Excellent communication; credible with engineers and CISOs.
• Comfortable owning ambiguity and shipping fast.
• London-based and able to work from the London office 3 days/week.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and translate requirements into solutions.
• Own end-to-end POCs: scope, success criteria, build, close.
• Deliver demos and build realistic demo environments.
• Architect and prototype integrations with IdPs, HRIS, SaaS, and AI frameworks.
• Handle security reviews and architecture deep-dives with the team.
• Partner with Customer Success on complex rollouts.
• Provide field feedback to product and engineering.
• Create technical collateral: integration guides and reference architectures.
• Set the standard for Cakewalk's Solutions Engineering function.

Skills

Solutions engineering

Startup experience

APIs

Scripting

Automation

Integrations

IAM concepts (SSO, SCIM, OAuth, RBAC)

Identity platform integrations

Security tooling

AI agent frameworks

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

London-based

Job description

Cakewalk, a London-based access management startup, is hiring its first Solutions Engineer. You'll be the technical counterpart in customer conversations—from discovery to rollout—running POCs and architecting integrations against real identity stacks.

As the first SE hire, you'll define the function, build reusable assets, and shape product feedback. Expect high ownership, direct impact, and a path to leading your own team.