Staff Product Security Engineer Tide United Kingdom Engineering check more → in London

At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by offering business accounts and related banking services, as well as a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data-driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love.

The Tide Security Engineering team is made up of three core areas: Product Security, Threat Detection Response, and Identity. Product Security consists of application and cloud security experts. Their mission is to protect the products we build, covering everything from secure design reviews to threat modelling and penetration testing, ensuring security is embedded from the ground up. Threat Detection Response focuses on protecting the company by building a robust detection and automation platform. Our goal is to make Tide resilient against the ever-evolving threat landscape. Identity is responsible for managing Tide's staff identity platform, ensuring that access to systems and infrastructure is secure, seamless, and aligned with modern security practices.

As a Senior Product Security Engineer you’ll:

• Regularly dive deep into mobile, web app technologies in order to understand feature development and proactively hunt for vulnerabilities.
• Be proficient in securing cloud-native applications, ensuring that security best practices are applied consistently across our cloud environment.
• Be proficient in threat modelling and guide developers in secure design principles to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place.
• Help remediate vulnerabilities through strategic initiatives, writing patches, or creating understandable and actionable vulnerability tickets.
• Be the subject matter expert across a wide range of security areas, particularly in Application Security.
• Make security invisible when possible, believing that gatekeeping and blocking product teams should be avoided in favour of enabling secure development.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, sharing your knowledge to help raise the security bar across the organisation.
• Leverage automation and security tools to seamlessly integrate security into our CI/CD pipelines, ensuring vulnerabilities are caught early without disrupting development.

What makes you a great fit:

• You have a breadth and depth of knowledge across AppSec.
• You know Burp Suite (or your favourite attack proxy) inside and out.
• You have excellent spoken and written communication skills to articulate vulnerabilities clearly and persuasively.
• You’re comfortable writing proof-of-concept (POC) scripts to demonstrate your findings and their potential impact, as needed.
• You have hands-on experience with securing cloud-native applications, ensuring that best practices are consistently applied.

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary
• Group Life Insurance
• Vitality Health Insurance, with a proactive focus on mental and physical wellbeing
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days
• We invest in your development with a £1,000 professional L&D budget per year
• Access to ‘salary sacrifice’ benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution
• Spacious brand-new office in Liverpool street with an all-day snacks bar
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year
• Flexible working options
• Sabbatical leave
• Share options

At Tide, we champion a flexible workplace model that supports both in-person and remote work to cater to the specific needs of our different teams. Our offices are designed as hubs for innovation and team-building, where we encourage regular in-person gatherings to foster a strong sense of community.

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.