Security Engineering Manager - Associate

About the role

Lead Product Security at Taxfix - a fintech platform serving millions of users. You'll own the security function end-to-end: strategy, tooling, and a small but growing team (currently two Security Engineers). This role is part hands-on security engineering and part emerging people leadership.

What you'll do

• Hire, coach, and develop Security Engineers - run meaningful 1:1s, set development goals, and actively manage performance
• Build a high-performance team culture rooted in psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement
• Champion AI adoption within the team - encourage AI-assisted workflows for security work (threat modeling, detection engineering, vulnerability triage)
• Own the team's outcomes against OKRs: prioritize effectively, track progress with metrics, and delegate without micromanaging
• Own the technical direction for Product Security: application security, AI security, cloud security posture
• Ensure rigorous vulnerability management, incident response, and security-in-SDLC practices
• Partner with Technical Leadership and Architecture to align security work with the broader technology strategy
• Bridge your team and its stakeholders: Product Engineering, AI Engineering, Platform, Data, and Architecture

What you'll need

• 8+ years in application security, DevSecOps, or security engineering with strong hands-on depth
• Tech lead, team lead, or early management experience with a clear desire to grow into engineering management
• Track record of leading technical initiatives end-to-end: scoping, executing, and rollout
• Strong understanding of cloud security across at least one major provider (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure transferable)
• Experience with security tooling: CNAPP/CSPM platforms, vulnerability scanners, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code)
• Familiarity with AI security — LLM security risks, adversarial testing, secure integration patterns
• Effective communicator across engineering, product, and leadership audiences

Nice to have

• Experience working in regulated environments
• Exposure to incident response coordination at scale
• Background in threat modeling programs at engineering org scale
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads from a security angle

What they offer

• Free mental health coaching sessions and yoga
• Monthly allowance for services, flexible and rollover eligible
• Employee stock options for all employees
• 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours
• Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year
• Free tax declaration filing through Taxfix app