🚀 DevOps-Focused Fullstack Engineer

Location: Hybrid, London based
Type: Full-time
Team Size: 4 engineers (reporting to the CTO)
Compensation: 80k-120k (up to 30% bonus)

🧠 About Mindstone

Mindstone is on a mission to up-skill the world in how to use AI — fast.
We run live learning programs, personalised learning experiences, and a vibrant community — all supported by AI under the hood for people eager to upskill quickly and at scale.

Our platform is used by individuals, teams, and large enterprises across the globe. Behind the scenes, we’re a lean team building highly-performant, deeply integrated infrastructure, leveraging both open-source and internal tooling.

🎯 The Role

We’re hiring a DevOps-Focused Fullstack Engineer to work alongside our CTO, PM, and core engineering team.

In the first 6 months, you’ll focus heavily on:

• Infrastructure ownership
• Cloud cost reduction
• Developer productivity
  

Over time, your focus will gradually shift toward fullstack feature delivery and internal developer tooling.

You’ll be instrumental in maintaining our reliability, observability, and deployment flow — while helping modernize the way we build software in the AI era.

📬 Application Process

1. 1-hour interview and technical deep-dive with the CTO & PM
2. 2-hour sanity-check do-at-home coding exercise
3. 1-hour alignment call with the CTO & CEO

🛠️ What You’ll Be Doing

🔧 Infrastructure & DevOps (70% at start)

• Own and evolve our Kubernetes (GKE) setup
• Reduce our GCP cloud bill through tuning and architectural improvements
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, secrets handling, TLS/DNS configurations
• Improve and maintain observability using the Open Monitoring Stack
• Implement automated testing infrastructure across backend and frontend services
• Shape and support internal developer workflows (Docker, Codespaces, Replit, etc.)
• Be instrumental in shaping our on-call process and participate in the rotation
  
  

👨‍💻 Fullstack Engineering (30% at start)

• Support and extend backend services written in Go
• Contribute to new features across the platform as needed
• Collaborate with engineers and our PM to debug, ship, and improve end-to-end systems
• Build internal tooling to assist other business functions
  
  
  

✅ What You Bring

Must-Haves

• You actively use AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, or Devin in your daily work
• 7–10 years of engineering experience with a strong DevOps focus
• Solid experience with Kubernetes on GKE and managing production infrastructure
• Proficient in Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with Go and backend service architecture
• Strong experience with ScyllaDB or Cassandra
• Comfortable building and evolving internal DevOps tooling
  

Bonus

• Experience with GraphQL APIs
• Familiarity with vector databases and search systems
• Experience working with React (Remix) or similar frontend frameworks

🌟 Why Join Us

• High-impact, ownership-driven role working directly with the CTO
• Autonomy to shape tooling, workflows, and future engineering hires
• Tight-knit team with a bias for action and deep trust in each other
• We're building with AI, not just for AI — you’ll help define what that means in practice
  

🌍 Culture & Benefits

• 💰 Competitive salary with share options
• ➕ Monthly salary bonus (up to 30%) tied to sales performance and training satisfaction
• 🌴 25 days holiday + bank holidays + Christmas week
• ✈️ Quarterly in-person Swarm Weeks across Europe