Senior Application Security Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $143k - $183k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💻 Application Engineer

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Forward Financing

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 $250M Debt Financing on 2021-05

Finance • Fintech • B2B

Forward Financing is a company that provides fast and flexible financing solutions for small businesses. They specialize in offering capital to small businesses that may struggle to secure funding from traditional financial institutions. With a simple application process, businesses can receive funding decisions within hours and may have funds transferred the same day. Their revenue-based financing model allows payments to adjust with the business's revenue. Forward Financing aims to provide clear and transparent terms, ensuring customer satisfaction and trust. They have been recognized for their excellent service and are rated highly by small business owners.

📋 Description

• Conduct manual penetration tests against company systems • Build AI-assisted tooling and automation to extend penetration-test coverage • Define and implement testing approaches for LLM applications, agents, and agent-generated code • Triage SAST findings, remediate real vulnerabilities, and tune false-positive rules • Perform secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, and AWS infrastructure • Build tooling and security services within the Forward application stack • Support test-to-production security reviews for AI-built work • Explain security risks to engineers so they can prioritize and remediate findings • Help shape the company's growing application security function and standards

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in application security, offensive security, or product security • Hands-on penetration testing and code-review experience across web applications, APIs, and AWS cloud infrastructure • Hacker mentality and curiosity about how systems break • Interest in using AI to solve problems • Understanding of AI/LLM attack surface, including prompt injection, insecure agent tool use, and vulnerabilities characteristic of AI-generated code • Experience with modern programming languages such as Ruby, Python, TypeScript, or Go • Experience with secure SDLC practices • Ability to communicate risk and priorities to security and software engineers • Typically a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree, or equivalent industry experience • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States • OSCP/OSWE or comparable offensive certifications preferred • Experience pentesting or red-teaming LLM applications and agentic systems preferred • Experience contributing to bug-bounty or external testing programs preferred • Background in fintech or other regulated environments preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Commuter benefits • Flexible time-off policy • Paid parental leave • 401(k) match for US employees • Wellness reimbursement • Volunteering days • Annual professional development budget • Charitable donation match • Flexible hours • Flexible work location: home, office, or combination • Virtual and in-person team events