Software Engineer - Remote(Security) in London

Board Intelligence is a technology and advisory firm on a mission to make boards more effective, and through them, build better businesses and benefit society. We have invested in applied AI since 2020, well ahead of the market, and that early conviction has paid off. Our AI-powered platform and smart board advisor give us a competitive advantage that is widening, not narrowing. We are now growing fast, with a proven commercial model spanning both mid-market and enterprise, and a product suite that has become a necessary addition in high-stakes board environments.

Our Mission: We unleash the potential of organisations through the science of board effectiveness, building better businesses and benefitting society.

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. 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. We want an engineer who is drawn to security, rather than a security specialist or penetration tester who has picked up some engineering.

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.

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.

Our Values: Our values aren't just words on a wall. Remarkable quality & service — We take joy from delighting our clients and pride ourselves on ensuring every interaction is exceptional.

Benefits:

• Pension scheme
• Personal performance bonus
• 26 days holiday each calendar year
• Bupa health & dental cover
• Group life assurance
• EAP
• Cycle to work scheme

Diversity, equity and inclusion: Board Intelligence is committed to building a team that reflects the breadth of experience, background and perspective needed to do this work well. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.