Security Engineer at high-growth employee benefits fintech

Security Engineer

Company Description: High-growth employee benefits fintech platform

Location: London, UK

Job Description: As a Security Engineer, you will shape information security across infrastructure, product, and compliance. Working in a high impact team with direct mentorship, you will implement security tooling, embed secure by design practices, and lead risk assessments. This role offers the autonomy to own key projects and evolve the security posture of a rapidly scaling platform.

Why this role is remarkable

• Significant autonomy to shape security strategy across engineering and compliance domains in a supportive environment
• Join a well funded startup backed by top tier VCs that prioritizes work life balance and high performance culture
• Unique opportunity to own end to end security projects, from technical implementation of EDR/MDM to ISO 27001 certification

What you will do

• Implement and manage core security tooling including endpoint protection, MDM, and access controls as the business grows
• Embed secure by design practices into the SDLC through threat modeling, design reviews, and secure coding standards
• Proactively monitor systems for irregular behavior and design advanced detection and prevention mechanisms across cloud infrastructure

The ideal candidate

• Hands on experience deploying security tools like EDR or ZTNA and navigating the Microsoft security ecosystem (Entra ID, Intune)
• Solid foundations in cloud infrastructure and industry standards such as OWASP Top 10 and AWS Well Architected Framework
• Proven ability to automate security tasks using Python or PowerShell while translating technical controls into audit ready policies