Application Security Engineer AppSec

The role

This person will secure web applications, APIs, and backend services. They will embed security into design, development, testing, and release workflows.

What you will do

• Perform security reviews, code reviews, and testing for web applications, APIs, and backend services.
• Identify, prioritize, and help remediate injection, broken access control, authentication, and configuration vulnerabilities.
• Integrate SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, and secrets scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct threat modeling and design reviews for features, APIs, third-party integrations, and major changes.
• Coordinate with mobile engineers on cross-platform findings and backend controls protecting native iOS and Android clients.
• Own application security implementation for SC TRM and BNM RMiT.
• Provide secure coding guidance, track remediation, retest fixes, and improve developer security awareness.

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in application security, penetration testing, or secure software development.
• Experience implementing and owning SC TRM and BNM RMiT application security and secure SDLC requirements.
• Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10, web vulnerabilities, API security, and secure design.
• Hands-on experience with Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning tools.
• Experience reviewing TypeScript/Node.js and Python services.
• Strong English communication is required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Swift, Kotlin, AWS, and GCP.

About the company

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform started in 2019. It is the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.