Security Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Security Engineer with 3+ years of experience in security coordination, product security, and compliance for a fast-growing fintech company. This role is pivotal in ensuring the security of our products and services, working closely with various teams across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main security contact point for the FinTech department.
• Work as a bridge between FinTech product and engineering teams and the central Cybersecurity team.
• Understand FinTech products, payment flows, crypto-related features, card payment solutions, integrations, APIs, and release plans.
• Participate in product, engineering, and delivery meetings to identify security needs early.
• Coordinate security activities required for new features, releases, integrations, and product changes.
• Create and manage requests to internal security teams, including Application Security, Penetration Testing, Cloud Security, GRC, and Compliance.
• Track security tasks from request creation to closure.
• Ensure that security reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, penetration tests, and compliance checks are planned and completed on time.
• Help prioritize security requests based on product risk, business impact, regulatory requirements, and release timelines.
• Coordinate remediation of security findings with product and engineering teams.
• Maintain visibility of open security risks, blockers, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Support preparation for audits, partner due diligence, compliance reviews, and regulatory assessments.
• Help translate security requirements into clear and practical actions for product and engineering teams.
• Improve the security request process between FinTech and Cybersecurity teams.
• Maintain dashboards, trackers, or reports for security delivery status.
• Escalate delays, ownership issues, and critical risks when needed.
• Support the central Cybersecurity team with operational, coordination, or documentation tasks when capacity allows.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in security coordination, product security, project management, technical delivery, GRC, compliance, or similar roles.
• Experience working with software development teams.
• Understanding of SDLC, release management, product delivery, and engineering workflows.
• Basic understanding of application security, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and secure development practices.
• Experience working with regulated products, preferably in fintech, payments, banking, crypto, cards, or PSP environments.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders across product, engineering, security, and compliance teams.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar task management and documentation tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to turn unclear security needs into structured tasks, owners, deadlines, and next steps.
• Good understanding of risk-based prioritization.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or other security/compliance frameworks.
• Experience with card payments, issuing, acquiring, crypto payments, wallets, payment gateways, or transaction monitoring.
• Basic knowledge of cloud security, API security, authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Experience coordinating penetration tests or application security reviews.
• Experience working in a multi-entity or international fintech group.
• Understanding of threat modeling and secure-by-design principles.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, SonarQube, SAST, DAST, CNAPP, or vulnerability management platforms.

We Offer

• An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group, the opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and more.
• Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed.
• Beautiful offices in Warsaw, Limassol, Yerevan, work remotely or on-site with comfort and enjoy the opportunity to build a network of connections with professionals day by day.
• Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment are provided.
• Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, days off.
• Referral program: enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get the bonus.
• Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences.
• Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues.
• In-house Travel Service.
• Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents, and news, RedCore clubs for movie/book/pets lovers, special office days dedicated to holidays.
• Company events, team buildings.

About the Company

PIN-UP is a fast-growing fintech company dedicated to creating trends, not following them. Join us to be part of a dynamic team and contribute to our success story.