Software Engineer - Security

The Role

Board Intelligence's clients include some of the most heavily regulated organisations in the world, and they trust us with highly sensitive board information. Security is fundamental to everything we build.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to lead security across our engineering teams. This is not a client-facing or product role. You will work across all of engineering, closely with our CISO, our CTO and our engineering leaders, bringing engineering skills to our security function and raising the bar on how we build securely. You will have the backing of the CTO and CISO, and real freedom to make change.

We want an engineer who is drawn to security, rather than a security specialist or penetration tester who has picked up some engineering. You will start by building strong foundations, then move on to the most exciting part of the role: using AI agents to test our applications continuously.

Whilst we aren't fully remote, we are flexible on office presence and can consider hybrid approaches of 2-4 days per month onsite in London. 

Main Responsibilities

Build a clear picture of where our engineering security stands today, and agree a plan to improve it with the CTO and CISO

Bring consistent security tooling into every pipeline, including credential scanning, software composition analysis (SCA), static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST)

Configure that tooling to our standards so it helps engineers rather than creating noise they learn to ignore

Review system designs and architecture with engineering teams, applying security thinking early

Build agentic security testing: AI agents that continuously test our applications and alert engineers to issues

Work closely with our CISO and security team, turning security goals into working systems

Help engineers across the business build securely, through tooling, guidance and example

Person Specification

We are looking for an engineer with a genuine interest in security, who wants to make it their focus and is excited by the freedom to build something from the ground up.

Required Skills and Experience

Mid-level to senior experience building production systems, in any language

Strong system design skills, including reading architecture diagrams and spotting the security risks in them

A genuine interest in security and a clear motivation to make it the focus of your work

A good understanding of secure development practices and common application vulnerabilities

Experience working with CI/CD pipelines

The ability to influence engineers and win support for change without formal authority

Experience using AI coding tools in your day-to-day work

Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to haves

Experience introducing security tooling, such as SAST, DAST, SCA or secret scanning, into an enterprise

DevOps experience in a regulated enterprise, such as financial services

Experience building AI agents or LLM-based automation

What good looks like in this role

After three months: you understand our systems and how we build them, and you have agreed a clear security plan with the CTO and CISO. You have an initial view of our current engineering security posture

After six months: security scanning runs in every pipeline, tuned so that engineers trust it and act on it

After twelve months: agentic security testing is continuously testing our applications, and security is part of how every team designs and builds

How We Work

We hire people who are expert at what they do. Once you join, you have the autonomy to shape how you work and the space to do it well. That doesn’t mean working in isolation. You’ll have colleagues who know their craft, regular collaboration across functions, and easy access to senior leadership when you need it.

We keep our structure flat. We work at pace in an agile, nimble environment where good ideas don’t wait for permission. If you spot something that could work better, we encourage you to say so. If you want to run with an idea, we’ll back you to do it.

We work with people who take pride in their output, back their team through the hard parts, and leave things better than they found them.

We are number 33 in Jack & Jill's most wanted places to work 2027!

Benefits

Our package reflects what matters to people who do serious work:

• Competitive salary
• Pension scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• 26 days’ holiday each calendar year
• Bupa health and dental cover
• Group life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Referral bonus
• Claude licence: AI tools integrated into your daily work to multiply your impact
• Annual all-company Summer Away Day
• Regular team socials

What Happens Next

Once you apply, our Talent team will review your application. If there’s a fit, they’ll be in touch to discuss the role and next steps.

How We Use AI in Our Hiring

We use AI responsibly, both in the software we build for governance teams and in how we hire. Our Talent team may use AI to support application review, CV analysis, or identifying areas that need further verification.

But hiring decisions are made by people. AI surfaces signals; people make the call on whether to progress a candidate or extend an offer.

If you’d like details on how your data is handled during recruitment, contact our Talent team.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We’re building a team that works because it reflects a breadth of experience, background, and perspective.

Apply even if you don’t tick every box on the job specification. If the role excites you and you think you could make an impact, we want to hear from you.

We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of recruitment, or if there’s anything else we can do to make the process more accessible, tell our Talent team. We’ll sort it.

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