Principal Application Security Engineer (Contract Role)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead application security reviews, including manual code audits of Java and Go applications and supporting components in other languages, and provide clear, practical remediation guidance.
• Assess application architecture, business logic and data flows to identify security risks, and recommend proportionate controls.
• Define secure development standards and integrate security checks, including static analysis, into the software development lifecycle (SDL).
• Build, extend or tune static and dynamic analysis tooling so that common vulnerability classes are found early and at scale.
• Perform threat modelling, secure architecture reviews and penetration testing of web, backend and mobile or desktop applications (including iOS and macOS).
• Investigate and validate relevant emerging vulnerabilities, assess their impact on our systems, and guide remediation.
• Review and improve operational security controls for sensitive systems, such as authorisation, segregation of duties, approval workflows and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Work with engineering teams to prioritise security findings and verify that fixes address the underlying risks.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor engineers on secure design and coding practices.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 6 years of professional application security experience, including technical ownership of security initiatives across engineering teams.
• Strong Java and/or Go skills, with hands-on experience manually auditing applications built with frameworks such as Spring or Gin.
• Deep understanding of common application vulnerabilities, including those in the OWASP Top 10, and of business logic flaws, access control weaknesses and authentication or session-handling issues.
• Practical experience in threat modelling, secure architecture reviews, penetration testing and implementing a secure software development lifecycle.
• Experience developing or customising code analysis tooling (for example, rules, bytecode analysis or control-flow analysis) to detect vulnerabilities.
• A demonstrated vulnerability research track record, such as CVE disclosures, vendor security acknowledgements or bug bounty contributions.
• Ability to evaluate security trade-offs, establish standards and guide remediation across complex applications.
• Strong communication and documentation skills in English, with the ability to explain risks to technical and business stakeholders.

Advantageous

• Reverse engineering experience on iOS, macOS or Android applications, including analysis of authentication mechanisms and communication protocols.
• Experience in vulnerability research on operating system components or frameworks.
• Experience designing or reviewing encryption, data protection or Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) solutions.
• Experience using automation or AI-assisted tools to support security reviews, with independent validation of findings.
• Experience working in a regulated financial services environment.

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Skills

Security Controls, Systems Investigation, Vulnerability Research, Computer Engineering, Identifying Risks, Audit Frameworks, Java Applications, Computer Science, Penetration Testing, Access Control Management, Security Risk Analysis, Liaise With Technical Teams, Security Assessment and Testing, Software Development Lifecycle, Standards Development, Code Analysis