Engineer 1.5 (Cybersecurity)

Location: London or remote within the UK; work from abroad is allowed for up to 20 days per year.

Company

hirify.global is a fully regulated UK bank providing accounts and payment infrastructure for product-led fintechs and platforms.

What you will do

• Translate security, compliance, and regulatory standards into practical engineering controls and ship the code that implements them.
• Own certifications and attestations, including ISO 27001, SWIFT, and FPS, together with supporting documentation.
• Manage internal and external audits and customer due diligence requests, driving findings and actions through to closure.
• Maintain engineering risk assessments, controls, recurring control activities, chaos testing, and backup/restore processes.
• Improve release and change management, conduct post-incident reviews, and follow up on remediation actions.
• Strengthen operational resilience through disaster recovery planning, Important Business Service technical mapping, and engineering third-party governance.

Requirements

• Hands-on engineering or technical background, including writing and shipping production code.
• Experience in security, compliance, risk, or assurance within a technical environment, including significant ownership or contribution to audits, certifications, or attestations.
• Strong knowledge of compliance, risk, and cyber security principles.
• Broad understanding of change and release management, incident management, operational resilience, and third-party governance.
• Strong analytical and assurance skills, including identifying gaps, assessing adherence to standards, and following actions through.
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills across Engineering, subject-matter experts, auditors, and control functions, with a pragmatic and proportionate approach to governance.
• Strong writing skills and a commitment to clear, readable documentation.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, SWIFT, and FPS, ideally in a regulated fintech or challenger bank environment.
• Experience using automation and code to improve security, compliance, control processes, or documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible working, with no expectation to attend the London office.
• 25 days of holiday, bank holidays, and a winter break between Christmas and New Year.
• Share options, pension, private medical insurance with family cover, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing coaching and therapy sessions, enhanced parental leave, and support for a home working setup.
• Claude subscription and access to other premium AI tools.
• Work from abroad for up to 20 days per year.

Hiring process

• Apply via the provided link; shortlisted candidates will be contacted by the Talent team for an initial conversation and further process details.