🧠Polyglot Software Engineer
📍 Hybrid – Southampton (1 day fortnightly) | 💰 £60–80k + Equity | 🧱 Deep-Tech Startup | 🌍 £60B Market Opportunity
We’re working with an early-stage deep-tech startup that’s gunning for a slice of the £60B SQL database market — and doing so with serious technical firepower.
Fresh off a £1.2M pre-seed and mid-way through a further £7M raise, they already have live enterprise customers and a product solving high-stakes, real-world problems. This is a true ground-floor opportunity — you’ll be working on core product and platform decisions, right as they scale their UK engineering team.
The Mission:
They’re building a platform that makes databases interchangeable — allowing enterprise applications to move seamlessly between different SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, etc.) without rewriting core logic. Think: zero-downtime migrations, deep system integration, and high-performance virtualisation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Building features for a next-gen database virtualisation platform
* Tackling performance, scalability, and system interoperability challenges
* Writing clean, well-tested code in multiple languages
* Working cross-functionally with product, DevOps, and architecture teams
* Helping shape the technical roadmap and scaling engineering processes
What You’ll Need:
* Proficiency in 3+ languages (e.g., C++, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust)
* Strong fundamentals in algorithms, systems design, and data structures
* Experience with SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
* Ability to pick up new tech fast and solve complex problems independently
* Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, early-stage environment
Nice to Have:
* Deep understanding of database internals or data migration
* Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
* Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions)
The Stack:
Linux, C++, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, LLVM
Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, Azure
Why It’s Exciting:
✅ Join at the inflection point — live customers, big funding round, rapid growth ahead
âś… Take ownership of core engineering challenges that actually matter
âś… Be part of building something technically ambitious and commercially disruptive
✅ Equity on offer — strong long-term upside
This one’s perfect for engineers who love tough problems, clean design, and working across languages and platforms. If that’s you, drop me a message and let’s have a chat.