Application Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

At Solidgate, our mission is clear: to empower outstanding entrepreneurs to build exceptional internet companies. We exist to fuel the builders — the ones shaping the digital economy — with the financial infrastructure they deserve. To achieve that, we’re on a bold path: to become the #1 payments orchestration platform in the world. We believe the future of payments is shaped by people who think big, take ownership, and bring curiosity and drive to everything they do. That’s exactly the kind of teammates we want on board.

🏢 About Solidgate

Solidgate builds financial infrastructure for fast-growing internet businesses worldwide. Our platform processes millions of payments daily and operates in a highly regulated fintech environment, where security is a core product requirement — not an afterthought. Our engineering organization builds and scales a complex cloud-native platform with over 120 microservices. As the company continues to grow, we are strengthening our security organization and introducing a dedicated Application Security Engineer role.

🎯 The Role

The mission of this role is to keep our business and revenue safe by building security into the way we develop software — from early design decisions to CI/CD pipelines and live production systems. This is a hands-on Application Security role focused on embedding security into the software development lifecycle and reducing real product risks. You will work closely with engineering teams to design secure application architectures, improve secure coding practices, detect vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle, and continuously improve application security as part of everyday engineering work. You will have a direct impact on how secure software is built across a large microservices ecosystem, influencing standards, tooling, and engineering culture.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining secure coding standards and supporting their adoption across development teams
• Conducting threat modeling during architecture and design stages
• Implementing and improving application security testing, including: SAST, DAST, Dependency and secrets scanning, CI/CD security checks
• Performing regular application security assessments and maturity evaluations (OWASP ASVS, OWASP SAMM)
• Managing the full vulnerability lifecycle: triage, prioritization, remediation support, and validation
• Supporting external penetration testing and Bug Bounty programs
• Identifying and mitigating security risks in cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines

📌 Required Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in Application Security or Product Security
• Hands-on experience with OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
• Practical experience with: secure code reviews, threat modeling, SAST and DAST tools and their integration into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of web application and API security
• Ability to communicate clearly with engineers and work as a partner rather than a blocker

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with container security and cloud security tooling
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and shift-left security practices
• Experience automating application security processes
• Background as a software engineer or close collaboration with development teams

🎁 Benefits

• 30+ days off
• Unlimited sick leave
• Free office meals
• Health coverage
• Apple gear to keep you productive
• Courses, conferences, sports and wellness benefits

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No visa or eligibility information provided.