About the Company

Our SaaS client is looking to expand its engineering team, bringing someone on to act as a ‘Founding Engineer’ alongside the CTO and Engineering Lead to further build out their business offering.

With a solid technical foundation and a rapidly growing customer base, the business is entering an exciting phase of scale and product expansion. They’ve recently signed a major customer, unlocking new resources to grow the team and evolve the platform.

The product has earned a strong reputation for reliability, performance, and user experience. Customers rely heavily on it and are highly engaged, often acting as product advocates.

About the Role

As a Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll work closely with a small, experienced team including the CTO and other senior engineers. The role will be very hands-on and offer a lot of variety, due to the busy and changing nature of small businesses. You’ll be deeply involved in:

• Back-end systems, web apps, and core infrastructure
• Scaling and optimising a cloud-based platform
• Collaborating with customer-facing teams to respond quickly to user needs
• Designing and developing new features and capabilities
• Shaping the future of the engineering team and its culture
• This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role. You’ll take ownership of projects from concept to delivery, contribute to architectural decisions, and help evolve operational processes.

The Company Tech Stack

• Primary languages: Go, C#
• Frontend: Svelte
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, PostgreSQL
• Other tools: Temporal

What They’re Looking For

• 10+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• Experience in Go and a willingness to learn unfamiliar languages.
• Experience operating and scaling complex cloud-based systems
• Strong computer science fundamentals (through studies or commercial experience)
• A balance of pragmatism and quality when building software
• Comfortable working in Linux-based environments
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
• Customer-focused mindset
• Someone whose excited about joining a growing business and collaborating with all areas of the business

Why Join?

• Be part of a fast-growing, stable company at a pivotal stage
• Work with experienced, pragmatic, and friendly colleagues
• High degree of ownership and influence
• Flexible, hybrid work environment (remote also considered!)
• Career growth in a founding-style team setting

Benefits

• Generous salary
• Equity
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible working hours/ set-up
• Automonmy and career progression