Senior Application Security Engineer
About the role
You are an application security expert with a strong 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.
For this role you’ll be embedded within the team building Chime’s next generation banking platform from the ground up. This team will power the most important financial activities that millions of Chime members undertake every day. You will ensure that we build the highest levels of trust with our members by making our platform safe, secure, and auditable. This is an exciting opportunity to be a foundational member of a brand new project.
This job cannot be performed in the state of Colorado.
In this role, you can expect to
- Evangelize security best practices
- Build security into our SDLC, participate in security design reviews, steer the team towards safe and reliable solutions, coordinate 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
- Work with Infrastructure Engineering to deploy secure AWS infrastructure
To thrive in this role, you have
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Empathetic, team player
- Expert in web & backend application security
- Golang experience is a strong plus
- AWS/Terraform experience is a plus
A little about us
We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.
Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!
We've built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $14.5B. We've raised over $1B in funding from leading investors including DST, Coatue, Tiger Global, General Atlantic, Iconiq, Dragoneer, Menlo, Whale Rock, Access, Forerunner, Crosslink, Cathay, aCrew, and others.
What we offer
- 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
- ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 📝 Quarterly stipend to spruce up your home office
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days
- 🖥 Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
- 💚 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 that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.
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.