You will architect the agent-native risk infrastructure that leading enterprises in finance and healthcare rely on. As a founding engineer, you will build the core backend services and Azure-based platform that enable AI agents to manage continuous risk assessment. You own the mission-critical layer that ensures multi-tenant security and operational excellence.
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Founding Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform) at Helmguard
Join a high-growth London startup building agent-native risk infrastructure that has already reached seven-figure revenue months after launch. You'll architect secure multi-tenant systems on Azure and shape the foundations of a company winning multi-year enterprise contracts.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Helmguard
Software
HelmGuard Technologies, Inc. provides an AI-native enterprise trust and risk assurance platform that functions as an "Enterprise AI Risk Operating System" for security, compliance, and operations teams.[1][3] The company’s platform consolidates risk, security, and compliance data into a unified intelligence layer and uses specialized, autonomous AI agents to execute tasks such as risk assessments, compliance mapping, third‑party/vendor risk management, incident and exposure detection, and customer assurance reporting.[1][3][5] By orchestrating AI agents across multiple risk domains—including cybersecurity, IT, legal, finance, and regulatory compliance—HelmGuard enables continuous monitoring, predictive exposure detection, and generation of stakeholder‑ready, evidence‑backed reports, helping enterprises make faster, clearer, and more accountable security and risk decisions at scale.[1][3][4][5]
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and own multi-tenant isolation patterns and backend services using TypeScript and Node.js on Azure.
- Architect and manage production infrastructure using Terraform, Container Apps, and Service Bus to support long-running AI agent workflows.
- Automate compliance plumbing and security controls for SOC 2/ISO 27001 within a high-stakes regulated environment.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 6+ years of backend engineering experience with a heavy focus on infrastructure and owning services from code to production.
- Expert in Azure (or AWS/GCP with fast ramp-up) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) with a strong security and network segmentation posture.
- Demonstrated operational maturity in managing deployment pipelines and on-call environments for audit-sensitive, multi-tenant SaaS products.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a founding team with a seven-figure revenue run rate within months of launch and multi-year enterprise contracts already secured.
- Build with a world-class founding team from Palantir, Oxford, and Stanford, backed by elite institutional investors and angels from Isomorphic Labs and SpaceXAI.
- Gain significant pre-Series A equity upside and direct influence over the technical direction and culture of a high-growth AI infrastructure company.
Jack & Jill
How Jack & Jill work together
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