Senior Application Security Engineer
Chime is the largest and fastest-growing player in the challenger-banking space, providing mobile and online banking technology in the U.S. on behalf of partner banks and facilitating over 10M accounts with no physical branches. We’re a technology company relentlessly focused on helping our members achieve financial peace of mind. That’s why we offer access to an award-winning bank account that doesn’t charge a ton of traditional bank fees, can give members early access to their paychecks, and enables members to grow their savings automatically. And we’re just getting started. We are proud of our mission, devoted to our members, and passionate about applying technology to the challenge of making financial health a reality for everyone.
We have one of the most experienced management teams in Fintech and have raised over $800M in funding from DST, General Atlantic, Iconiq, Coatue, Dragoneer, Menlo, Access, Forerunner, and others. If you’re looking to join a fast-growing company with a beloved, daily-use product and an authentic mission that puts people first, we want to meet you.
About the Role
You are an application security expert with an engineering background and a knack for working collaboratively with the engineering team. You communicate clearly, present reasonable security tradeoffs to the business, and work to create real world practical solutions that reduce our security risk.
Responsibilities
- Evangelize security best practices across the company
- Build security into our SDLC, manage our bug bounty program, manage 3rd party penetration tests, etc
- Build automation and monitoring to enforce security policies and detect threats
- Build safe-by-default guardrails for engineers to use
- Present findings and explain impact and solutions to any level of leadership and other engineers
- Partner with engineering to threat model new services and infrastructure
Requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Empathetic, team player
- Expert in web application security (required) and mobile application security (bonus)
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails experience is a plus
- AWS experience is a plus
What we offer
- Competitive salary based on experience, with medical and dental benefits.
- Free snacks and drinks, plus weekly catered lunches. (when back in office!)
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Monthly happy hours and company events.
- A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service.
We know great work isn’t done alone. We’re building a team of individuals to Chime in with their different strengths to benefit our employees and members. We strongly believe that different backgrounds and ideas are a competitive advantage; we hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.