Team8 Stealth Cyber Startup- Software Developer

We are a fast-growing stealth cyber startup, backed by Team8, on a mission to solve one of the most critical challenges in the modern cyber landscape. We are looking for a brilliant Backend Engineer to join our core team and help architect, build, and scale our platform from the ground up. Role description We are looking for a strong Software Engineer to join our core team, become a true partner in building the product end‑to‑end, and take a key role in architectural, technological, and implementation decisions. This is a hands-on role in a small team, with a lot of responsibility, autonomy, and influence over the technical and business direction. What you will do • Design, develop, and maintain high‑scale Backend / Full‑Stack services in a cloud environment. • Design and implement Microservices architectures and distributed processes. • Work with data systems, databases, and messaging / event‑driven architectures. • Integrate with a variety of security, IT, and cloud tools and systems. • Own features end‑to‑end – from technical design, through implementation, to deployment and production metrics. • Work closely with Product and Research teams to translate security problems into working products. • Take part in key technology choices, tools selection, and team standards.

Requirements: • 4+ years of hands-on software development . • Practical experience in Cyber Security - security products and/or working with security teams. • Practical experience with at least one of the following languages: Go / Python / Node.js . • Solid understanding of System Design , architecture, and how to build scalable, fault‑tolerant systems. • Fast learner, independent, with strong ownership and end‑to‑end delivery mindset. • Pragmatic, detail‑oriented, and comfortable working in a small, dynamic team. Nice to have • Experience with event‑driven architectures and message brokers (Kafka / RabbitMQ / NATS or similar). • Knowledge or experience with AI / LLMs and integrating them into production systems. • Experience with observability – monitoring, logging, and tracing (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK, etc.). • Experience building distributed and cloud‑native systems (AWS / GCP / Azure). • Hands‑on experience with Docker and container‑based environments (Kubernetes – strong advantage). • Experience with databases – SQL and/or NoSQL, including schema and data‑model design. • DevOps experience. • Previous experience in an early‑stage startup.