Senior Security Engineer - Fintech: Secure Payments

VENN; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Health benefits

Vacation days (4 weeks)

Unlimited sick/personal days

Parental leave top-up

Team meals

Job summary

Venn is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to shape security across the platform, partners, and teams. You’ll integrate security into architecture and shipping practices, ensuring scalable protection as the business grows.

Work spans application security, security operations, and governance, risk and compliance, collaborating with engineering, product, and Risk & Compliance. A strong hands-on security background and cloud experience are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security engineering, application security, or software engineering with a strong security focus.
• Track record of building or maturing security at startup or high-growth company.
• Backend coding with Java or Kotlin preferred; shipping fixes over tickets.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Venn’s security roadmap, prioritizing risks that matter to the business.
• Partner with engineering and product on design and code reviews, especially where money moves.
• Protect customer identities and accounts across web, mobile apps, APIs and partners.
• Strengthen prevention, detection, and response across cloud environment; lead incidents end-to-end.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance to stay ahead of fraud and threats.
• Automate security across development lifecycle and infra, incl. vulnerability management and pen tests.
• Protect sensitive data with strong data security and privacy controls.
• Maintain security across people, devices, and internal systems; foster security culture.
• Manage third-party security risk from vendors to banking/payments partners.
• Set guardrails for safe use of AI and agentic tools.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Startup/high-growth experience

Backend coding (Java/Kotlin)

Security incident response

Cloud security (AWS)

Identity & authentication

Security governance & policy

Cross-functional communication

Tools

AWS

Job description

Venn is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to shape security across the platform, partners, and teams. You’ll integrate security into architecture and shipping practices, ensuring scalable protection as the business grows.

Work spans application security, security operations, and governance, risk and compliance, collaborating with engineering, product, and Risk & Compliance. A strong hands-on security background and cloud experience are required.