Application Security Engineer

At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care, a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

Role Overview

As our Application Security Engineer, you will be the primary owner and driver of our application security program. You'll work hands-on with engineering teams to embed secure development practices, improve tooling and automation, and guide security considerations for new features, architectures, and services.

This is a high-impact role where you'll shape the future of AppSec at a company that values security as a core part of product quality.

What You'll Do

Application Security Ownership

• Lead and evolve the company's application security strategy, roadmap, and day-to-day operations.
• Serve as the primary AppSec partner for numerous dev teams working on Ruby on Rails web apps, React Native mobile apps, and various other projects including Python and Go.
• Provide security guidance during design, development, and code review for new features and projects.
• Drive adoption of secure coding practices and threat-modeling across engineering teams.

Tooling & Automation

• Manage and optimize existing AppSec tooling, including:

• GitHub Advanced Security (SAST, SCA, Secret Scanning)

• Invicti (DAST)

• Hadrian (ASM)

• AppDome (mobile application security)

• Cloudflare WAF

• Improve automation and integration of security tools into CI/CD pipelines.

• Identify and implement additional tools or processes to strengthen the security posture.

Secure SDLC & Developer Enablement

• Build and maintain secure development standards, playbooks, and training materials.
• Partner with engineering teams during sprint planning and feature design to proactively address risks.