iCapital

Application Security Engineer - Vice President

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7 days ago
Lisbon, PortugalStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and mature the Secure Design and Threat Modeling program, including methodology, review standards, and sign-off criteria.
  • Drive shift-left security through design reviews, developer enablement, and security gating in CI/CD.
  • Own API security as an organizational discipline and assess REST and GraphQL APIs.
  • Support offensive security initiatives, including penetration testing and API exploitation assessment.
  • Build and maintain Python-based security automation tools to scale AppSec capacity.
  • Partner with developers on SAST and SCA remediation, scan optimization, and security feedback-loop improvements.
  • Contribute to AI-assisted security pipelines and define vulnerability-management escalation paths, SLAs, and accountability structures.
  • Influence engineering and product teams and operate at the architecture level.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience in secure design, threat modeling, API security, and offensive security.
  • Penetration testing experience and understanding of real-world attack and API exploitation patterns.
  • Deep practical familiarity with the OWASP Top 10.
  • Strong API security experience, including REST and GraphQL APIs.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience building dependable automation tools.
  • Experience with shift-left programs, CI/CD security, developer enablement, and design-review processes.
  • Understanding of web application and API security, cloud-native environments, and attack surface management.
  • Ability to read code across languages and engage engineering teams at technical depth.
  • Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, GWEB, CSSLP, CISSP, or CEH are a plus.
  • Developer experience and fluency in Ruby and Scala are a plus.
  • Exposure to AI-assisted security tooling or LLM security is a differentiator.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and equity for full-time employees.
  • Healthcare with 100% employer-paid health and dental insurance.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Hybrid schedule with four days in the office and remote work available one day per week on Friday.

Tech Stack

GraphQLPythonRubyScala

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About iCapital

1,001-5,000 employees
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