Senior Security Engineer – Fintech/Cloud, Equity

Venn; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in a Series A company

Health, dental and vision benefits

Four weeks of vacation

Unlimited sick / personal days

Paid parental leave top up

Weekly lunches and paid dinners

Job summary

Venn, a Canadian fintech, is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to embed security into product design and engineering across applications, cloud, and governance. You will lead incident response, set security policies, and partner with Risk and Compliance to address fraud and regulatory readiness.

This role demands a builder mindset and hands-on experience with AWS, authentication, and secure software delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, or software engineering with a strong security focus.
• Track record of building or maturing security at a startup or high-growth company.
• Builder mindset with backend coding skills and bias for shipping fixes over filing tickets.
• Depth in at least two of application security, security operations, and GRC, with comfort across all three.
• Strong understanding of modern authentication and identity, and how attackers target them.
• Hands-on cloud security experience, ideally in AWS.
• Comfort spanning product and corporate security, from code reviews to identity providers.
• Experience leading incident response in a production environment.
• Pragmatic, risk-based judgment and ability to focus on what matters most.
• Clear communication translating security risk for engineers, leadership, and partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Venn’s security roadmap, prioritizing risks that matter most to the business.
• Build security into the product with design and code reviews for money-moving features.
• Protect customer identities and accounts across web, mobile apps, APIs, and partner integrations.
• Strengthen prevention, detection, and response across cloud environments and lead incidents to post-mortems.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance to stay ahead of fraud and emerging threats.
• Automate security across the development lifecycle and infrastructure, including vulnerability management and pentesting.
• Protect sensitive data with strong data security and privacy controls.
• Maintain security across people, devices and internal systems; foster a security-aware culture.
• Manage third-party security risk with vendors and banking/partner integrations.
• Set guardrails for safe use of AI and agentic tools.
• Drive security governance including policies, security reviews, SOC 2 and PCI DSS readiness.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Backend coding (Java/Kotlin)

Cloud security (AWS)

Incident response

Communication

Risk assessment

Tools

AWS

Job description

Venn, a Canadian fintech, is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to embed security into product design and engineering across applications, cloud, and governance. You will lead incident response, set security policies, and partner with Risk and Compliance to address fraud and regulatory readiness.

This role demands a builder mindset and hands-on experience with AWS, authentication, and secure software delivery.