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Security Engineer Intern

Security Engineer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 London

A 10-week, hands-on summer internship embedded in Freetrade's Security, Privacy and Infrastructure team, working on ongoing security operations and a dedicated, outcome-driven project.

Responsibilities

  • Remediation: vulnerability triage and proof-of-concept testing, applying offensive security and pentesting skills in practice
  • GRC: supporting vendor security review processes, assessing third-party risk against security standards
  • Automation: assisting with AI tool adoption assessments, evaluating new tools for security and privacy risk

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of offensive security, pentesting, or bug bounty practices
  • Comfortable writing scripts or code in any language, Python preferred
  • Solid understanding of core security concepts and principles

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment tools or CTFs

Soft skills

Open to feedback and quick to act on itFast learner, comfortable with ambiguity, able to ramp up independentlyClear and concise communicator, written and verbalReliable, organised, and takes ownership of their time and commitmentsCollaborative and comfortable working across teams

About the company

Freetrade's mission is to become the default place to invest; it recently became part of the IG Group while continuing to operate as an independent business, building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools, and exploring how to leverage AI.

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