Senior Application Security Engineer
Wise
London, GB
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* Job Type: Full-Time
* Function: IT
* Industry: Fintech & Crypto
* Post Date: 02/14/2025
* Website: wise.com
* Company Address: The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6JJ, United Kingdom
About Wise
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world.
Job Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the worlds money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the worlds money. For everyone, everywhere.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced application security engineer with a strong interest in all aspects of cyber security.
Our team is the Application Security Team, our mission is to protect Wise application code and data against cyber threats and ensure customer assets are safe.
As our estate expands, we must continually develop our systems for identifying and reporting vulnerabilities across the company. Moreover, we must ensure to work alongside product teams to ensure security practices are followed and mitigations are applied throughout the whole software development lifecycle. In addition to this, we also work to ensure our engineering teams are trained to create safe and secure code as well as remaining compliant with any regulatory requirements.
How we work
We operate on a strong belief in automation, programmatic implementation, and reusable design. Were looking for people who can step back and think holistically about the ecosystem, but also follow through and help implement the design; drawing on the resources across the rest of the platform tribe.
As we grow, you will be working as part of a high-performing team to ensure our pillars are maintained and our security posture is always improving as well as our extensive compliance program. We need to sustain our growth by continuously iterating on the services we build, with a focus on security, ease of use, and evidencing the effectiveness of our guard rails. Were looking for an engineer with relevant experience who can analyze these complex requirements and deliver simple solutions to help our teams achieve our mission with speed and confidence.
What will you be working on?
* Working closely with product engineers and finding new ways to protect our customer data and funds;
* Developing and improving our tools and processes designed for discovering and aggregating security vulnerabilities;
* Creating opportunities for optimizing the way developers address and remediate security vulnerabilities;
* Working on streamlining our product vulnerability discovery and lifecycle management across engineering teams;
* Helping to provide security training to our engineering teams.
What do you need?
We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more, we do want to hear from you!
* You are passionate about Application Security and surrounding topics;
* You have worked within a production environment and understand the security risk regarding Continuous Integration/Delivery;
* You have solid development experience with various languages, e.g. Java, Python, and Go;
* You have worked with or experienced various security exercises such as penetration testing, security researching, red teaming, or bug bounty programs;
* You have experience with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, and SCA;
* Great communication and negotiation skills;
* Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to other Wisers;
* Ability to run your projects in collaboration with other teams and find the path for success.
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