Software Engineer

Techwaka; Greater London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A London-based AI security startup is looking for an engineer to join their team. In this role, you will develop and maintain the AI Red Teaming Platform, ensuring clients can securely navigate the evolving landscape of AI threats. You will thrive in a collaborative environment, utilizing your skills in Python and TypeScript to support product development and customer needs while enjoying benefits like competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

33 days vacation

Flexible working options

Learning & development budget

Company equity

Qualifications

• Comfortable coding with Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experienced in building distributed systems and SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Building, testing, and delivering changes to production.
• Pair programming and collaborating closely with stakeholders.
• Participating in on-call rotations to support systems.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Collaboration

Cybersecurity knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Azure

Job description

£44k - £60k per annumEstimated

Full-time

Mindgard

Canary Wharf, Greater London

Mindgard is a London-based startup specializing in AI security.

We've spun-out from a leading UK university, and our mission is to secure the future of AI against cyber attacks targeting Deep Learning, GenAI, and LLMs. This is an unsolved challenge globally, and we are among the world's first to offer a solution to this rapidly growing problem.

We've raised $4M from an excellent group of investors, released our first product offering: Mindgard AI Security Labs, and continue to build a team of engineers to join us on our journey.

The role:

You will join an engineering team that is building and maintaining our flagship AI Red Teaming Platform. You'll help customers adopt AI while staying secure from the new security threats that affect AI models.

You're someone who thrives in a close-knit team with a highly collaborative and supportive atmosphere, where people care greatly about their mission to help people safely benefit from AI.

You'll work on capabilities across SaaS Webapps, to integrations that protect customer systems, to internal tooling that powers our AI threat intelligence. We use a variety of tooling across the tech stack, including Python, TypeScript, Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Azure.

In this role you'llbe:

• Building, testing, and continuously delivering small,high qualitychangesto production.
• Pair programming with others on the team to collaboratively build and share knowledge.
• Working with product stakeholders to plan and design improvements to our platform.
• Joining customer calls to understand their needs and help design solutions.
• Evolving our architecture to supportchanging commercial and customer needs.
• Growing other engineers; sharing your experience, providing feedback and mentoring.
• Participating in on-callrota to support the systems you are building.

We are looking forpeople who are:

• Kind—sharing our values.
• Curious—always looking for ways to improve our tech and product for customers.
• Mission-driven—care deeply about helping people use AI safely.
• Comfortable working across the stack as part of a small startup team.
• Competent coding with Python, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• Collaborative—comfortable working together to build quality fast (e.g. pair programming).
• Experienced building SaaS products that delight customers, from conception to production.
• Experienced with building and operating production distributed systems.
  Experienced with cloud native, containers, Kubernetes.
• Confident working with data pipelines and a variety of databases.

You'llstand out if you:

• Haveexperience building cyber security products.
• Haveexperience working in startups.
• Have experience as a site reliability engineer or similar role.
• Have experience working with extreme programming practices such as pair programming,tdd,trunk baseddevelopment, and close customer collaboration.
• Areable to work onsite from our lovely office in Canary Wharf the majority of the time.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• 33 days vacation
• Flexible working options
• Learning & development budget
• Company equity

Our Selection Process:

1. An initial callto help youget toknow us better and to share more information about Mindgard and the role.
2. A challenge related to the job. This will really help us understand your skillset and give you an idea of the type of things you will be working on at Mindgard.
3. An opportunity to meet witha few members of the Mindgard team.
4. An interview with ourCo-founder.
5. Offer

Before you go,we want you to know!

Studies have shown that some groups of peopleare less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are,If you don't meet all of the above criteria, but you think you'd be a great addition to Mindgard,we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.

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