Software Engineer - Security

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.

Over twenty years we have established ourselves as the market leader in governance and board effectiveness, trusted by more than 80,000 directors, executives, and governance professionals globally, including across the Fortune 500, FTSE 100, and OMX 30. That trust has been earned through depth of insight, rigorous advisory work, and a track record that newer entrants simply cannot replicate.

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. In 2024, K1 Investment Management, the leading B2B Enterprise SaaS investor, backed us to accelerate that position further. 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.

The people joining us now will shape how we scale. We are deliberate about how we do that. Our founders and leadership team are deeply invested in keeping the culture that got us here: thoughtful, high calibre, and genuinely human. Ambition and balance are not in competition at Board Intelligence.

If you want to work at the intersection of AI and governance, on problems that matter at the highest level, this is a strong place to be.

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. 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.

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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