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London - £180k - £200k per annum + bonus, Pension, etc Permanent Posted by: McGregor Boyall Posted: Wednesday, 28 January 2026
 
 

Senior Golang Engineer - AI & Platform Security

Location: UK (Remote-first)
Level: Senior/Principal/SVP-equivalent
Compensation: Highly competitive base + discretionary bonus

The Opportunity

We are assisting with the hire for a Senior Golang Engineer to join a small, elite engineering team within a Tier 1 investment bank building production-grade AI platforms at scale.

This is a hands-on engineering role, suited to someone who enjoys building systems, actively attacking them, uncovering weaknesses, and redesigning them with security Embedded from day one.

The team operates independently with a startup mindset: modern tooling, minimal bureaucracy, and a strong bias toward shipping real products.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Building secure, production AI platforms using Golang

  • Actively breaking and stress-testing systems to identify vulnerabilities

  • Conducting ethical hacking and attack simulations on real applications

  • Securing AI-specific attack surfaces (eg prompt injection, model misuse, data leakage)

  • Designing and building security tooling and frameworks

  • Embedding security early while maintaining engineering velocity

  • Setting engineering and security standards at a senior level

  • Mentoring engineers on secure-by-design development practices


What We're Looking For

  • Strong hands-on experience with Golang in production environments

  • Background in application, product, or platform security

  • Proven experience securing real systems, not just advising on them

  • Ability to think like both a builder and an attacker

  • Cloud-native experience (containers, Kubernetes, modern infrastructure)

  • Interest in AI/GenAI/LLM security (commercial experience preferred, not essential)

No prior financial services experience is required.
Engineers from big tech, scale-ups, and high-growth startups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Why This Role Is Different

  • This is not a compliance or governance role

  • You'll be writing and shipping code, not policies

  • Security is treated as a product and engineering problem, not a blocker

  • High visibility, genuine autonomy, and long-term impact

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

London, UK
IT
Executive
£180k - £200k per annum + bonus, Pension, etc
McGregor Boyall
Tristan Pitt 
JS-TP534233
28/01/2026 10:03:47
About McGregor Boyall

McGregor Boyall is a privately owned global recruitment consultancy founded in 1987. We are headquartered in the City of London, with additional offices covering the UK & Europe, the Middle East and North America. We provide permanent, contract and project-based recruitment services focusing on the mid-senior candidate market. We deliver within Financial Services, Commerce & Industry, and the Public Sector. Our primary specialisms cover all technology verticals and core business functions.

Change & Transformation | Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure | Data & Analytics | Development & Testing | Information & Cyber Security | Project & Programme Management | Risk Management & Quant Analytics


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