Security and Compliance Engineer

About Griffin Hi, we’re Griffin. We’re a fully regulated UK bank that powers the accounts and payments offerings of product-led fintechs and platforms like Uber, Yonder, Prosper, and Sidekick. By doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes, our customers can focus on what they do best - delivering amazing customer experiences. We’ve grown rapidly since our launch in 2024, and today provide the banking backbone behind products in remittance, payroll, wealth, insurance, proptech, payments, neobanking and more. We’re moving into card issuing, stablecoin infrastructure, and agentic finance next as we continue to support the next generation of product-led companies. Learn more about what we do Our culture We believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments and have done our best to create such an environment at Griffin. People who thrive here don’t require much hand-holding, and go out of their way to figure out how to contribute in the most valuable way possible. We've been remote-first since we were established in 2017 and we remain so today. Work here is asynchronous and fully flexible - because we want to be a part of your life in a way that helps you to get the most out of both your work and home life. We understand that our culture and ways of working aren’t for everyone, and we’re very intentional about our hiring process as a result. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified. Our strong culture has helped us to remain a mission-driven company as we have scaled, and gives our people a clear, explicit operating framework and the space to focus on delivering real value for our customers. Learn more about our culture. The Team The Craft function has seven small, cross-functional engineering teams - each with engineers, an engineering manager, and a product manager, working closely with designers. You will work across the whole Craft function, with the remit of improving our controls and cyber security governance. You will initially work with and report to the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure as you establish yourself and take on your day to day responsibilities, additionally you will work closely with our CTO and Founder, Allen Rohner . The Opportunity We're looking for an Engineer 1.5 to become the engineering voice of security, compliance and assurance at Griffin. Sitting across engineering, security, risk and operational resilience, you'll turn standards and regulatory expectations into practical controls that engineers actually want to use and you’ll build those controls yourself, shipping code to production alongside the engineering team. You’ll also give our second and third lines real confidence in what we’ve built. It’s a rare hybrid role with broad ownership and a direct hand in strengthening Griffin’s security. What Success Looks Like In your first 6 months, you'll have taken ownership of our certification, attestation and audit work including ISO 27001 and SWIFT, with evidence organised and findings driven through to closure. Our engineering risks and controls will be well maintained, and our release, change and post-incident processes will be stronger. You’ll have shipped code that automates control checks and evidence collection, and you’ll be a regular contributor to our codebase. By month 12 our resilience plans, including Important Business Service technical mapping, B& Continuity Planning and disaster recovery, will be current, and security and compliance will be easier to run and easier to demonstrate to customers, thanks to clearer ownership and smart automation. To Do This You’ll Own • Control design and cyber security governance: translating standards into practical engine