Senior Full Stack Engineer | AI Pentesting
Join a talented squad of four engineers led by a Tech Lead. At Escape, "Senior" means you drive technical decisions and guide our direction. Here’s what you’ll do:
What You’ll Work On
Build at Enterprise Scale: Deliver a robust product handling tens of thousands of assets, millions of findings, complex search, and real-time data refresh—all while ensuring top-tier performance.
Tackle Tough Data Challenges: Optimize PostgreSQL performance, craft efficient queries, design indexes, manage pagination, and implement effective caching. Our platform is intensely data-driven and demands low latency. This goes far beyond standard CRUD.
Engineer AI-Native Workflows: Develop seamless, intelligent processes—like guided triage, assisted remediation, and extracting insights from noisy scan data. AI is truly integrated into our product, not an afterthought.
Own the Full Delivery Loop: From vulnerability ingestion to triage and remediation, you influence every step. This includes risk scoring, developer integrations (CI/CD, Git, ticketing)the entire risk management workflow.
Shape Our Architecture: Be hands-on with data modeling, system design, and GraphQL schema development. You'll decide how we build, not just what to build.
Our Tech Stack
Frontend: Svelte + TypeScript, GraphQL client
Backend: Node.js, GraphQL (Yoga + Pothos), Prisma, PostgreSQL, Kafka
Infra: AWS, GitLab CI, Grafana
Deep Tech: Python (AI/ML), Go (network tooling)
What’s In It for You
Competitive salary: €80K–105K base, depending on experience
Meaningful equity (BSPCE): Be part of our journey post-Series A, pre-scale
Tangible impact: Direct access to customers, rapid product iterations, and real product influence
Conference opportunities: Present at leading events like RSAC, BlackHat, DEFCON, and BSides in major cities (NYC, Vegas, SF, London, Paris)
Career growth: Real path to Tech Lead, not just a promise
Perks: Health (Alan), meals (Swile), sports (EGYM Wellpass), premium equipment, and dedicated open-source time
About You
5+ years of experience developing production web apps, with strong expertise across both frontend and backend
Deep TypeScript knowledge: You utilize the type system to its full potential
Proven experience designing (not just consuming) GraphQL schemas
Strong ownership: You proactively fix problems as soon as you spot them
Excellent communicator: Able to explain technical tradeoffs to non-engineering stakeholders
Bonus Points: Svelte expertise, Security/DevSecOps background, Startup experience
Apply now to make a real impact in AI-powered cybersecurity!
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience developing production web applications
- Strong expertise across both frontend and backend (full stack)
- Deep TypeScript knowledge and advanced use of the type system
- Proven experience designing GraphQL schemas
- Strong ownership and proactive problem solving
- Excellent communication with non-engineering stakeholders
- Svelte expertise
- Security / DevSecOps background
- Startup experience
What We Do
Escape is an AI-powered offensive security platform that automates the full offensive security lifecycle. The company helps Application Security teams automate API discovery, inventory, and security testing through agentless scanning. By replacing manual pentesting and bug bounty programs with a scalable solution, Escape aims to multiply the impact of security engineers and secure APIs at every stage of development.
