Software Engineer – Security

Overview

In this role you will strengthen security across Board Intelligence’s engineering teams. You’ll partner with the CTO and CISO to raise the security bar from design to deployment, with autonomy to implement meaningful improvements. You will spearhead secure-by-design practices and future AI-driven testing to continuously validate our applications. This is a unique chance to shape security culture in a fast-growing, AI-enabled governance platform. You’ll join a mission-driven team that values thoughtful, high-caliber talent and real-world impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• 26 days holiday each calendar year
• Bupa health & dental cover
• Group life assurance
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)`,`Cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Assess current security posture and define improvement plans with CTO and CISO
• Integrate unified security tooling into all pipelines (credential scanning, SCA, SAST, DAST)
• Tune tooling to be actionable and non-intrusive for engineers
• Review system designs early to embed security thinking
• Develop agentic security testing using AI agents to continuously test applications
• Collaborate with security and engineering teams to translate goals into working systems
• Support engineers with tooling, guidance, and exemplars to build securely

Key requirements

• Mid-level to senior experience building production systems in any language
• Strong system design skills with ability to identify security risks in architectures
• Genuine interest in security and focus on security in daily work
• Solid understanding of secure development practices and common vulnerabilities
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to influence engineers and drive change without formal authority
• Experience using AI coding tools in daily work
• Fluent written and spoken English

• curiosity
• influence without authority
• collaboration
• CI/CD pipelines
• secure development practices
• SAST

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