Junior Engineer, CFA Engineering

Hello, let us introduce ourselves! watchTowr is the Preemptive Exposure Management capability trusted by Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers. By combining proactive threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry, and automated red teaming, watchTowr continuously identifies and validates real exposure - so security teams can outrun real-world threats. When exploitation happens in hours, watchTowr delivers what no one else can: time to respond. We are a global team of operators, researchers, and engineers who have spent years thinking like attackers - and we are now building the technology to stop them. Our work is recognised across the industry, with original vulnerability research from watchTowr Labs and innovations like Instinct and Attacker Eye shaping the future of cybersecurity. Backed by $29M in funding, recognised by Gartner, and scaling fast across the globe, we are in a high-growth phase of our journey. We are a young, high-energy, and research-driven team, obsessed with building world-class technology - and we want exceptional people to join us. But what’s the role? We are looking for an ambitious graduates or early-career software engineers to join join our client facing application team, to build a scalable and engineering focused application that leverages good user experience and design. This is a full-stack role with a frontend focus, ideal for engineers who enjoy building polished user experiences while also contributing across backend services and platform functionality. We’re also looking for engineers who are AI-empowered and excited to leverage modern AI tooling to improve productivity, accelerate development, and enhance engineering workflows. The team is equipped with tools including Cursor and Claude Code subscriptions to support AI-assisted development. Sounds great – what will I do? Develop and maintain the client-facing application used to help organizations visualize and protect highly critical systems Work closely with the product design team to build intuitive interfaces that help clients understand and manage their organization’s attack surface Contribute across the full stack, from frontend experiences through to backend services and APIs Solve engineering challenges involving large-scale data visualization while ensuring the application remains performant, responsive, and professional Contribute to our existing design system and maintain shared company-wide packages consumed across multiple product platforms Use modern AI-assisted engineering workflows and tooling to improve development velocity and code quality. Sounds perfect to me, what specifics are you looking for? Ideal Experience Ideally, you should have 1-2 or more years of experience (fresh graduates welcome): Translating design and product requirements into code Delivering features across the full stack of a SaaS platform Building modern frontend applications with strong attention to UX and performance Working with both relational and non-relational database systems Writing clean, testable code and understanding different testing strategies Using AI-assisted development tools as part of your engineering workflow Technologies Backend: Node.js, Typescript Frontend: React.js, Typescript Database: MySQL Message Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ Bonus Experience It’ll also be awesome if you: Have experience working with data visualization tools and graphing libraries Have experience with platform engineering work such as CI/CD pipelines and common deployment patterns Have worked in an Agile environment with a strong DevOps culture Have experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools. What’s in it for me? Competitive compensation - we believe that hard work, skills and ambition should be fairly compensated. Meaningful role in a company - You will be a key and early contributor to a fast-growing cybersecurity business that helps protect some of the world's largest enterprises. The best tools and powerful kit - we enable you with the tools to effectively fulfil your role. Endless opportunities – we are in a high-growth phase of our journey, and plan to promote from within as we scale. Work with cyber security experts – we are solving cutting-edge industry-wide cyber security challenges with some of the world’s most advanced organisations. watchTowr is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer At watchTowr, we’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and diverse environment where every individual is recognised for their talent and potential. Our hiring decisions are guided by your capabilities, experience, and what you bring to the role - not by unrelated personal attributes. We have a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination or harassment. This includes - but isn’t limited to - discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, pregnancy or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Even if you don’t tick every box in the job description, we’d still love to hear from you.