Monarch Money

Monarch Money

Senior Application Security Engineer

Remote (US) · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
PythonDjangoCode ReviewAWSCI/CDRESTMachine LearningLLMsCybersecurityPenetration TestingDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceSupply ChainBurp SuiteCISSP

About the role

  • Monarch is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to join our Security Engineering team during a period of rapid growth.
  • This role is critical in ensuring our application layer remains secure and resilient as we handle increasingly sensitive financial data for over a million users.

Responsibilities

  • Perform and improve SAST/DAST operations including triage, validation, and remediation tracking of findings in CI/CD pipelines
  • Perform and coordinate penetration testing and security assessments against Monarch's web and API surfaces
  • Build and maintain security automations and AI-powered tooling, and define and assess security requirements for AI workflows and agentic systems.
  • Transformative AI fluency - actively uses AI tools to accelerate security work and build automation
  • every person on the team uses it as a partner to sharpen judgment, move faster, and expand what's possible.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in security engineering with demonstrated depth in Application and AI security - threat modeling, SAST/DAST, secure code review, and vulnerability management
  • Proficiency in Python and strong understanding of web application security (OWASP Top 10, API security, auth/authz patterns)
  • Hands-on experience with application security tooling - Semgrep, Burp Suite, Nuclei, or equivalents
  • Familiarity with AI/ML security risks - prompt injection, model abuse, agentic attack surfaces, or LLM supply chain risk

Nice to have

  • Experience in fintech or with financial data security requirements
  • Familiarity with SOC 2, NIST CSF, or similar compliance frameworks
  • Cloud security experience (AWS preferred) - IAM, container security, ECS/EKS

Compensation

  • Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.

Benefits

  • Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.
  • Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the

Company info

  • Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we've become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.
  • We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We're hyper focused on building a product people love, and on finding every edge that helps us do that better. AI is core to how we operate: every person on the team uses it as a partner to sharpen judgment, move faster, and expand what's possible. We're not looking for tool mastery, we're looking for fluency and curiosity. What matters is that AI is part of how you work today and that you're actively raising your own bar on how to use it well.
  • As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM - 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.
  • Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.
  • Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again.
  • Since launching in 2021, we've become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts.
  • To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.
  • We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals.
  • We're hyper focused on building a product people love, and on finding every edge that helps us do that better.
  • AI is core to how we operate: every person on the team uses it as a partner to sharpen judgment, move faster, and expand what's possible.
  • We're not looking for tool mastery, we're looking for fluency and curiosity.
  • What matters is that AI is part of how you work today and that you're actively raising your own bar on how to use it well.
  • As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere.
  • Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM - 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.

Equal opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
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