Security Engineer (Go) for Financial Tech

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Software Security Engineer to join our Information Security team. You will build tools and controls to protect a large-scale tech environment, bringing strong CS fundamentals and hands-on coding ability.

You will design and develop internal security tooling, work with engineers to fix weaknesses, and improve threat detection and monitoring. Go is the primary development language with Python for scripting, and comfort with scalable systems is

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong computer science fundamentals across algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed language (Go or similar).
• Interest in security and solving security-focused engineering problems.
• Experience with systems, infrastructure and scalable software.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and work autonomously.
• Strong communication and teamwork with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop internal security tools and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify security weaknesses and solutions.
• Improve threat detection and security monitoring capabilities.
• Develop defence-in-depth controls.
• Contribute to requirements, architecture, prototyping and development.
• Support security and compliance projects.
• Enhance authentication, authorization and core security systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Golang

Python scripting

Security engineering

Communication

Tools

Golang

Python

Linux

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Software Security Engineer to join our Information Security team. You will build tools and controls to protect a large-scale tech environment, bringing strong CS fundamentals and hands-on coding ability.

You will design and develop internal security tooling, work with engineers to fix weaknesses, and improve threat detection and monitoring. Go is the primary development language with Python for scripting, and comfort with scalable systems is