Security Engineer

🌍 Our Vision

To be the central nervous system of the global economy

🚀 Our Mission

Become the universal key that enables the true potential of Open Finance

⚖️ Why We Exist

To enable fairer & better financial services for everyone

What we’re looking for

We are currently looking for a Security Engineer to join our Security team. This role will help build the new Security Engineering team, identify priorities and then lead the team in all technical aspects ensuring the company remains a leader in Open Banking while delivering secure services.

Reports to

Security Tech Lead

Who are Yapily

We’re a young company and we’re growing fast. We have offices in London, Vilnius, and we have over 165 talented individuals joining us from their homes and coworking spaces from around the world. We’re wonderfully diverse, with 27 nationalities - and counting! We continue to expand our global reach as we build the best infrastructure for our customers.

We attract people who are excited to work in a nascent and disruptive industry that will change the way we interact with financial services, forever. We’re building the infrastructure to power the global economy.

We are looking for people who don’t always know the answers but can use their skill and judgement to work beautifully within the team to create better solutions for our customers. So whichever discipline you choose, whether that’s Engineering, Product, Commercial or Operations, we hire people who want to make a difference and can roll up their sleeves to get the job done from many different backgrounds.

Requirements

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Selection, configuration, administration, development or maintenance of prevention, detection and response tools.
• Integrating security into different stages of development lifecycle
• Helping share a secure by design mindset and reviewing our technical designs, products for security standards.
• Regular testing and assessment of our infrastructure and products (cloud, web and api).
• Monitoring, scanning, reporting on and resolving security threats, vulnerabilities and attacks
• Most importantly though, you will support our efforts to deliver, sustain and administer a high level of security for our product and infrastructure.

We would love you to have:

• Previous experience as a security engineer (infrastructure, platform or application)
• Previous experience in security at an API focused company is beneficial.
• Knowledge and experience with application security testing, vulnerability and incident management and tools
• Understanding of security practices for cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS
• Good understanding of IAM, SIEM and other IT infrastructure and security tools
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and communication skills
• Wide use of security tools (e.g. Nessus, Wireshark)
• Proficient in Java, Python, bash, power shelletc.
• Security or cloud related certifications are beneficial.

If you think you might be a good fit for us, but you don’t have all the experience listed here, please do apply, we are open to considering candidates with diverse skills and experience.

Interview Process

The application process consists of a 30 minute phone interview with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners, followed by video interviews with the hiring manager and various team members. There will also be a Strengths & Values conversation which will give you an opportunity to learn more about our culture and for us to understand how you like to work. You might also meet with a member of the management team and or have a short technical test depending on the role you are applying for. All interviews are held via Zoom or Google Meet currently.

We continue to work in a hybrid approach with a mix of working from home and the office.

About Yapily

Yapily is here to power a new era of financial services so that everyone can receive faster, affordable and personalised financial products.

We connect to thousands of banks using a secure open API enabling innovative companies to embed the power of open banking into their products. We provide infrastructure for industry leaders including American Express, Intuit Quickbooks, Vivid, Moneyfarm and BUX. Yapily has raised more than $69m funding and this is an incredibly exciting time to join the business as our international presence continues to scale rapidly.

Benefits

• Competitive salary in a rapidly growing scale up
• 25 days holiday (UK)
• Generous level of stock options
• Private healthcare
• Pension with employer contribution
• Flexible working options (open to discussions on work location, flexible and part time hours)
• Contribution to remote desk setup

Read more about working for us here