Fintech - Senior Security Engineer, Red Teamer

About the Company

Our client is a next-generation business banking platform founded by a team with deep roots in some of the world's most recognised digital banking and fintech brands. Backed by leading global venture firm, the company is building programmable financial infrastructure designed to automate, integrate, and scale financial workflows more intelligently.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a security engineer with a hacker mindset, someone who thinks like an attacker to keep a complex, regulated financial platform secure. You'll work closely with Product and Engineering to identify vulnerabilities, close gaps, and build the security tooling that enables teams to ship fast without cutting corners.

1. Partner closely with engineering teams to identify and remediate application and platform security risks.
2. Perform security assessments across backend services, APIs, internal tooling, and customer-facing applications.
3. Develop internal tooling, libraries, and automation to strengthen security testing and enforcement
4. Support security reviews involving external vendors, integrations, and infrastructure partners.
5. Contribute to the development of scalable security standards suitable for a high-growth fintech environment.

Requirements

1. Strong application security mindset with the ability to think from an attacker’s perspective.
2. Experience securing modern cloud-native or distributed systems environments.
3. Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, or TypeScript.
4. Understanding of common web application vulnerabilities, authentication flows, and access control models
5. Familiarity with blockchain and crypto security implications