Security Engineer
A little bit about Flanks 🚀
Flanks is shaking up the wealth management industry by making it simpler and way more efficient for financial institutions. Our SaaS platform is designed to help banks, family offices, and wealth managers get a full picture of their clients' financial assets—all in one place. 💼💡
Founded in 2019 and based in Barcelona, we’ve brought together a team of passionate wealth management and tech pros, all with a shared goal: to change how wealth management is done. Backed by €9.8 million in investment, we’re growing fast, and we’re not stopping anytime soon! 📈🔥
What we stand for:
- People First 🤝 – our team comes first. We want every Flanker to feel at home, engaged, and part of something bigger.
- Keep Growing 🌱 – as the company grows, so should you. We’re all about personal and professional development here.
- Think Twice, Act Once 🧠💭 – we believe in thoughtful decisions, considering the impact on both our team and our clients before taking action.
If you’re looking for a place where you can grow and make an impact at a fast-paced, exciting fintech startup, this might just be the place for you! 🎯✨
About the role 💼
As our next Security Engineer, you’ll play a key role in keeping Flanks safe and resilient. You’ll join the Platform Team and help shape, build, and maintain the security foundations that protect our systems, data, and people. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to make a real impact and cares deeply about doing things right—because at Flanks, security is everyone’s business, and yours will be at the heart of it.
Responsibilities
Examples of tasks you can expect to work on are:
Improve cybersecurity measures impacting the overall Flanks security.
Work with different teams to find and improve the security in the applications.
Validate that the cybersecurity requirements of products are implemented correctly.
Detect, respond, and remediate cybersecurity alerts/incidents.
Things we'd love to see on you
- You are a nice person: We don’t tolerate bigotry or toxic behavior—just good vibes.
- You have already at least 3 years of experience in similar roles. We're looking for someone with some lessons already learned.
- Working experience on cybersecurity, especially with system hardening and pentesting.
- CISSP, OSCP, or PEN-200 certification is required.
- You live in Barcelona City and/or close enough to come to the office three times a week. Living in Spain is a mandatory and non-negotiable requirement.
- You’re fluent in English and Spanish.
You don’t have to check every box, but the more you fit this, the more likely we’ll be excited to hear from you! 🚀
What we offer 🎁
We offer what we think is fair compensation (from 35K to 50K € per year for this role). We're not on the very top of the market, but our intention is to increase compensation as you grow with the company. You will not be left behind. We believe this is a really nice time to join the project as we'll experience some serious growth and changes during this year.
This is a full-time, permanent contract. A non-exhaustive list of perks includes:
- A full-time, permanent contract. 📃
- A cool office between Sants Estació and Plaça Espanya with stunning views of Barcelona. 🏙️✨
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options. ⏰
- Paid day off on your birthday. 🎂🎉
- Weekly fresh fruit, coffee, and tea on tap. 🍎🍵
- Friday happy hours after our all-hands meetings (totally optional, of course!). 🍻🥳
- Team-building events to bond and have fun. 🎈🤝
- Health insurance and flexible compensation with Alan. 🏥💸
- A digital canteen, thanks to Nora Real Food, subsidised at 50%. 🍽️😋
- A yearly training budget to keep growing. 📚📈
Note that for this role we can’t offer a relocation package and/or working visa.
The hiring process ⚙️
- Send us your CV, cover letter, etc. 📧
- You’ll have a chat with our Head of People, Mireia Barón. 💬
- A meeting with our CISO & Co-founder, Sergi Lao.
- A more technical meeting discussion typical situations you may encounter in your day to day and how would you tackle them.📋
- Any extra meetings you (or we) might need to iron out any questions. 🤔
- We send you an offer! 💌
We aim to keep things moving fast—ideally wrapping things up in one to four weeks. ⏳💨
If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to hear from you. Don’t hesitate to send us your CV and/or cover letter. ✉️🤗
At Flanks, we believe in fostering diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome all applications regardless of race, religion, gender, age, or disability status. 🌈💼
- Department
- Tech
- Locations
- Barcelona Office
- Remote status
- Hybrid

About Flanks
Redefining the wealth management industry to make it simpler, seamless, and accessible to more people.
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