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developUnited Kingdom🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 19 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Senior Web Engineer role offers exciting growth potential by combining web development with cutting-edge product security, allowing you to build resilient browser-based technologies. You'll thrive here if you're a skilled engineer with an interest in application protection and a passion for safeguarding software, and this competitive GBP 95,000 salary makes it an opportunity you won't want to miss. Apply today to contribute to a high-growth technology business and advance your career in a dynamic field.

Quick Overview

Salary
£95k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Remote
Location
United Kingdom
RustC++JavaScriptTypeScriptWebAssembly

Job Description

Senior Web Engineer | Product Security | Remote, 1-2 times per month in London | Salary up to £95,000

I’m working with a high-growth technology business looking for a Senior Web Engineer to join the team. This is a highly technical role combining both Web Engineering and Security, for this role they are comfortable within finding a really strong Mobile Engineer who has some exposure to security, application protection, authentication, biometrics etc.

What you'll be doing:

  • Build and evolve security-focused technologies that strengthen the resilience of browser-based products and applications.
  • Engineer defensive controls designed to safeguard software executing in untrusted client environments.
  • Develop mechanisms that detect and respond to unauthorised modification, inspection, manipulation, and automated interaction.
  • Create performance-critical browser components using native and compiled-to-web technologies, including Rust, C++, AssemblyScript, and WebAssembly.
  • Explore the internals of modern browsers and execution environments to understand how applications behave under both legitimate and adversarial conditions.
  • Identify weaknesses across client-side application architectures and turn security research into deployable engineering solutions.
  • Investigate new approaches used to analyse, manipulate, instrument, or circumvent browser-delivered software, and develop appropriate countermeasures.
  • Work alongside software engineers, security specialists, offensive security teams, and product stakeholders to ensure defensive requirements are incorporated from initial design through production.
  • Lead technical investigations into complex security issues, establishing underlying causes and engineering preventative solutions rather than short-term fixes.
  • Influence architectural decisions around application security, resilience, performance, and client-side trust boundaries.
  • Share specialist knowledge across the engineering organisation, helping teams adopt stronger approaches to secure software design and implementation.

What they're looking for:

  • 5+ years of professional web development experience.
  • JavaScript/Typescript or C++ Or Rust
  • Some Experience with App Security, cryptography, secure communications and authentication.

Nice to have:

  • JavaScript obfuscation and de-obfuscation
  • WebAssembly (WASM) binary analysis
  • Static and dynamic code analysis
  • Anti-debugging, anti-tamper, and software protection techniques
  • Runtime integrity verification and secure code signing
  • Secure SDLC practices
  • Browser engine internals, including V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, or Chromium
  • WebGPU, WebRTC, or WebCodecs
  • Binary instrumentation and compiler toolchains
  • SDK and developer platform development
  • Mobile browser security
  • Biometrics, identity verification, or fraud prevention technologies
  • Open-source security contributions or published security research

What's on offer:

  • Up to £95,000
  • Equity/share options
  • Up to 10% bonus
  • Remote Working- 1-2 a month in London
  • Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits
  • Pension and life assurance
  • Professional development and training
  • Enhanced annual leave and flexible benefits

If you're a Web engineer that has an interest in the world of Cyber Security then please click apply now!

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