Senior Software Engineer I - Application Security (Java)

Wise; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to enhance application security. You will work closely with product teams to ensure security practices are followed, developing tools to identify and manage vulnerabilities. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in Java and a passion for application security. The role offers a salary between £85,000 and £105,000 plus benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Restricted Stock Units

Inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Passion for Application Security and surrounding topics.
• Experience in a production environment with security risk understanding.
• Solid development experience in Java.
• Great communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product engineers to protect customer data.
• Develop tools for discovering security vulnerabilities.
• Optimize developer processes for addressing vulnerabilities.
• Streamline product vulnerability discovery and lifecycle management.

Skills

Application Security

Continuous Integration/Delivery Security

Java Development

Communication Skills

Job description

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong interest in all aspects of cyber security.

Our team is the Application Security Team, our mission is to protect Wise application code and data against cyber threats and ensure customer assets are safe.

As our estate expands we must continually develop our systems for identifying and reporting vulnerabilities across the company. Moreover we must ensure work alongside product teams to ensure security practices are followed and mitigations are applied throughout the whole software development lifecycle. In addition to this we also work to ensure our engineering teams are trained to create safe and secure code as well as remaining compliant with any regulatory requirements

How we work

We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. We’re looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the platform tribe.

As we grow, you will be working as part of a high performing team to ensure our pillars are maintained and our security posture is always improving as well as our extensive compliance program. We need to sustain our growth by continuously iterating on the services we build, with a focus on security, ease of use and ease of evidencing the effectiveness of our guard rails. We’re looking for an engineer with relevant experience who can analyse these complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence.

What will you be working on?

• Working closely with product engineers and finding new ways to protect our customer data and funds;
• Developing and improving our tools and processes designed for discovering and aggregating security vulnerabilities;
• Creating opportunities for optimising the way developers address and remediate security vulnerabilities;
• Working on streamlining our product vulnerability discovery and lifecycle management across engineering teams;
• Helping to provide security training our engineering teams

What do you need?

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• You are passionate about Application Security and surrounding topics;
• You have worked within a production environment and understand the security risk regarding Continuous Integration/Delivery;
• You have a solid development experience Java.
• Great communication and negotiation skills;
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to other Wisers;
• Are able to run your projects in collaboration with other teams and find the path for success;

Interested? Find out more:

• The Wise Tech Stack, 2025 Edition.
• Scaling our Infrastructure; how we make it work
• Wise Engineering – Wise Engineering

What do we offer:

• Starting salary: £85,000-£105,000 + RSU
• Wise Benefits

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Additional Information

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