Senior Security Engineer, Checkatrade
+ Annual bonus + Employee Share Programme
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Be an early applicant
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Annual bonus + Employee Share Programme
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- It's not about ticking every box. It's about turning up curious, ready to crack on. You'll do well here if you bring:
- Demonstrable depth across application security, cloud security, and modern platform engineering. You've shipped things, not just assessed them
- A strong, evidenced point of view on how agentic AI transforms code review, threat modelling, and developer enablement, with the receipts to back it up
- Hands-on experience securing complex multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure). GCP experience is a bonus
- Deep, practical experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD security, and infrastructure-as-code patterns, plus the developer empathy to build things engineers actually want to use
- If this sounds like the place where you can do your best work, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t tick every box
What the job involves
- As our next Security Engineer, you'll be the architect of how secure software gets built at Checkatrade, designing the platforms, guardrails, and paved paths that let engineering teams ship fast without ever trading off security
- You'll embed modern AppSec practices directly into the developer workflow, harness AI agents to turn vulnerability noise into actionable signals, and make secure-by-default the cheapest, easiest option every time
- If you want to build the rails and not just inspect the track, this is your role
- Designing and implementing scalable security controls and platform-level guardrails across our multi-cloud estate. Build it once, make it the default everywhere
- Driving a modern secure SDLC: threat modelling, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, and dependency hygiene embedded into the developer workflow, not bolted on
- Prototyping and deploying AI agents that review code, triage findings, suggest fixes, and turn vulnerability noise into signals developers actually act on
- Owning the security of our IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms, making least privilege the default and not a project
- Partnering with engineering to deliver paved paths, libraries, and tooling that make the secure way the easy way
- Running technical security reviews for new applications and infrastructure changes, finding the issues that matter with the evidence to back it up
Application process
- How we’ll get to know each other:
- Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
- 1st stage interview with Hiring Manager - Head of InfoSec
- 2nd Stage interview with IT Manager & Director of Engineering
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
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Meet the team
Hamza Anjarwalla, Labs Launcher Intrapreneur
Insights
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Checkatrade is changing how our business works, moving from a directory to a marketplace, and this comes with it a huge amount of opportunities to..."
Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Customer-Obsessed: We listen deeply, solve meaningfully, and earn trust.
- AI Powered: We embrace smart tools to move faster, think bigger, and stay ahead.
- All In: We commit fully, collaborate boldly, take ownership and show resilience.
Company HQ
Moorgate, London, UK
Articles
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Alex Inett (Head of Talent)
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 24% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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