Senior Security Engineer

The role

You will shape how Venn keeps its platform, customers, and team secure. You will work across application security, security operations, and governance, risk and compliance.

What you will do

• Define and drive Venn’s security roadmap.
• Build security into the product by partnering with engineering and product on design and code reviews.
• Protect customer identities and accounts across web and mobile apps, APIs, and partner integrations.
• Strengthen prevention, detection, and response across the cloud environment and lead incidents.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance to stay ahead of fraud, abuse, and emerging threats.
• Automate security across the development lifecycle and infrastructure.
• Protect sensitive customer and company data with security and privacy controls.
• Keep people, devices, and internal systems secure and build a security-aware culture.
• Manage third-party security risk from vendors and partners.
• Set practical guardrails for the safe use of AI and agentic tools.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, or software engineering with a strong security focus.
• A track record of building or significantly maturing security at a startup or high-growth company.
• Strong backend coding skills.
• Depth in at least two of application security, security operations, and governance, risk and compliance.
• Strong understanding of modern authentication and identity.
• Hands-on cloud security experience.
• Comfort spanning both product and corporate security.
• Experience leading incident response in a production environment.
• Pragmatic, risk-based judgment.
• Clear communication that translates security risk for engineers, leadership, and partners.

Nice to have

• Java or Kotlin preferred
• Experience at a fintech, in payments, or in another regulated industry.
• Experience with fraud, anti-abuse, or KYC/KYB systems.
• Experience with SOC 2 or PCI DSS audits and bank partner security reviews.
• Experience with detection engineering and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with the security risks of AI and LLM-based tools.
• Certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, or GIAC.

Benefits

• Equity in a Series A company
• Health, dental and vision benefits from your first day
• Four weeks of vacation
• Unlimited sick / personal days
• Paid parental leave top up
• Weekly lunches and paid dinners when work goes late

About the company

Venn is building the business banking Canadian companies should already have. It is a fast-growing B2B fintech in Canada.