Founding DevSecOps Engineer

I'm partnered with an ambitious AI FinTech startup that's building the world's smartest personal financial advisor . An AI that doesn't just understand your money, but can actively help you make better financial decisions.

Having completed their Alpha platform and secured significant new investment alongside leading angel investors, they're now entering one of the most exciting stages of the business.

They're looking for their first dedicated DevSecOps Engineer to build the security and infrastructure foundations that will allow the platform to scale to millions of users.

The Role

• You'll become the technical owner of platform security across the entire Engineering organisation, designing secure systems from the ground up whilst enabling their Product Engineers to move quickly and safely.
• You'll work across cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD, identity, secrets management, AI systems and customer data protection.

If security isn't built properly, nothing else matters

What you'll be doing

• Designing and owning security across the entire platform
• Building secure cloud infrastructure, primarily on GCP
• Developing secure developer workflows, CI/CD, and DevOps processes
• Protecting highly sensitive financial and personal customer data
• Designing encryption, identity and access management strategies
• Embedding security into AI-native products and engineering workflows
• Working with engineering to build secure-by-default systems
• Preparing the business for future certifications including SOC 2 and ISO 27001
• Partnering with regulatory specialists to prioritise security initiatives as the company scales

Tech

• Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Run. Experience with AWS or Azure is absolutely welcome, provided you're excited to work with GCP.
• GitHub Actions
• Agentic AI platform (100% custom built)
• Linear
• Modern AI engineering tooling
• The rest is up to you

What they're looking for

• 5-10+ years in Security Engineering, DevSecOps, or Platform Security
• Experience in startup or scale-up environments
• A hands-on engineering mindset rather than management experience
• Strong cloud security knowledge (GCP ideal, AWS/Azure transferable)
• Experience designing secure developer platforms and infrastructure
• Curiosity around AI security and the latest defensive tooling
• A pragmatic approach to balancing developer experience with security

They're looking for someone who's comfortable working across the stack, solving problems and building security from first principles.

Why join?

• You'll directly influence how security is designed across the business
• You'll help shape Engineering practices, influence technical decisions, work alongside experienced founders, and play a key role in taking an AI FinTech platform from early product-market fit to millions of users.
• You'll have the opportunity to help define how the company operates as it grows from engineering processes through to future office culture