Application Security Engineer, IG Group

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary not provided
Python
Java
C++
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

2+ days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)

IG Group

Global fintech investment platform

Job no longer available

IG Group

Global fintech investment platform

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyInvestingMobile

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Python
Java
C++
Junior, Mid and Senior level
London

2+ days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)

1001+ employees

FintechB2CCryptocurrencyInvestingMobile

Company mission

To power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious.

Role

Who you are

  • You must have a keen interest in practical application security, both in determining risk from new findings and in mitigating vulnerabilities
  • Excellent communication skills are very important: you will need to successfully explain technical issues quickly across the business
  • While we don’t require formal qualifications in security, proven security experience will be a major advantage
  • Recent development, DevOps or software testing experience would also be very useful
  • Most importantly: a willingness to learn, to quickly understand new systems and the confidence to adapt security ideas to changing circumstances

What the job involves

  • We are looking for an experienced Application Security Engineer with strong communications skills to help us take development security pipelines and practices to the next level
  • While the role will at times focus on specific software or tools, all Application Security team members must excel at summarising and communicating software vulnerabilities and their risks quickly to any layer of the business
  • You will need to research new technology and processes while also ensuring that older systems continue to adhere to our security requirements
  • A range of languages and systems: from Java, Python and C++, through automation and pipelines to cloud and containerisation
  • Communicating security across the business: technical details and management summaries
  • Configuring security controls, assessing and interpreting data and making decisions
  • Security alerts, taking an active role as the team quickly move to define risk and take action
  • Working with development and architecture teams to ensure security is embedded in design and implementation

Salary benchmarks

Share this job

Insights

5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Matched giving for your fundraising activity
  • Performance-related bonuses
  • Pension, insurance and medical plans
  • Career-focused technical and leadership training in class and online, including unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning platform
  • Contribution to gym memberships and more
  • A day off on your birthday
  • Two days’ volunteering leave per year
  • Best-in-class shift allowance
  • Out-of-hours transport entitlement

Our take

Founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler as a UK-based spread betting company for gold, IG Group abbreviated from Investors Gold Index, spent the first quarter century focused on trading physical assets. It was only in the year 2000 that it was finally listed on the London Stock Exchange and its gradual evolution into the world of fintech began.

By 2011 after various gambling industry-related controversies, the company had played a part in numerous international buyouts before finally narrowing its focus down to financial wagers. During the latter half of that decade, IG shut down its binary options trading platform and focused instead on building an investment portfolio with partner BlackRock Investments, all whilst maintaining its Forex and CFD trading processes.

In recent years, IG Group has developed major platforms for various trading actions and has grown profit and revenue significantly despite various investment setbacks, proving it to be a staple of the financial trading world.

Kirsty headshot

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle