Application Security Engineer
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What you'll be doing
Fin is seeking an Application Security Engineer to own and engineer critical security capabilities, design and build customer-facing security features, and lead application security initiatives. The role involves partnering with engineering teams, conducting security assessments, and supporting secure AI adoption in a SaaS environment.
- Own and engineer tier-zero security capabilities
- Design, build, and evolve customer-facing security features (authentication, SAML/SSO, permissions, logging, malicious URL scanning, enterprise controls)
- Partner with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle
- Perform architecture reviews, threat modelling, and security assessments
- Build security tooling, automation, and developer-facing building blocks
- Contribute to secure development standards and best practices
- Lead application security initiatives across the software development lifecycle
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead security incident response
Key requirements
Must-have
- Proven application security, product security, or security engineering experience within a SaaS environment
- Strong software engineering skills with experience designing, building, and operating production systems
- Deep understanding of modern application security threats, secure software development practices, and threat modelling
- Experience designing, building, or securing authentication, authorization, identity, or enterprise security capabilities
- Experience conducting architecture reviews and security assessments for complex systems
- Hands-on security incident response experience, including leading investigations and remediation
- Strong programming skills and experience building tools, automation, or developer-focused solutions
- Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools
Role signals
- Technical focus
- application security, security engineering, software engineering
- Architecture / system design
- Indicated in the listing
- Hands-on vs management
- Hands-on
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Full job description
Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.
Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams.
Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers.
What's the opportunity?
Fin is transforming customer service through AI, helping businesses deliver fast, accurate, and reliable support at scale. Trust is foundational to that mission.
Fin's Security Engineering team is unlike most security teams. We own and operate critical security services, build customer-facing security features, and partner with engineering teams to make secure development the default. We're engineers first; designing, building, and operating systems that protect Fin and its customers. The team owns and operates tier-zero services including authentication, SAML/SSO, teammate activity logs, malicious URL scanning, and other critical trust and security capabilities.
The mission of the team is to help Fin build and operate trusted AI-powered customer service experiences by making security a natural part of how products are designed, developed, and delivered. As Fin continues to expand its capabilities and adoption, you'll help shape how security evolves alongside some of the most ambitious AI-powered products in customer service. We're taking an AI-first approach to security, exploring areas such as AI-powered detection, red-team automation, continuous monitoring, and emerging defensive capabilities to help meet an evolving threat landscape.
What will I be doing?
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Own and engineer tier-zero security capabilities that help customers securely deploy and manage Fin.
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Design, build, and evolve customer-facing security features, including authentication, SAML/SSO, permissions systems, audit and activity logging, malicious URL scanning, and other enterprise security controls.
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Partner with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle to build secure products and services.
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Perform architecture reviews, threat modelling exercises, and security assessments for new features and systems.
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Build security tooling, automation, and developer-facing building blocks that make secure development easier and more scalable.
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Contribute to secure development standards, guidance, and best practices across Fin.
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Lead application security initiatives across the software development lifecycle, helping teams identify and address security risks early.
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Participate in a shared on-call rotation and lead security incident response, investigation, and remediation efforts.
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Drive security initiatives from problem definition through design, implementation, and measurable outcomes.
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Partner with teams building AI-powered products to assess and mitigate emerging security risks.
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Help shape Fin's AI-first approach to security, including AI-powered detection, red-team automation, continuous monitoring, and emerging defensive capabilities.
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Support the secure adoption of AI-assisted software development tools and engineering workflows.
What skills do I need?
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Proven application security, product security, or security engineering experience within a SaaS environment.
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Strong software engineering skills with experience designing, building, and operating production systems.
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Deep understanding of modern application security threats, secure software development practices, and threat modelling.
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Experience designing, building, or securing authentication, authorization, identity, or enterprise security capabilities.
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Experience conducting architecture reviews and security assessments for complex systems.
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Hands-on security incident response experience, including leading investigations and remediation efforts.
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Strong programming skills and experience building tools, automation, or developer-focused solutions.
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Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and engineering effectiveness.
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Ability to communicate security concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
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A pragmatic approach to balancing security, customer impact, and engineering velocity.
Bonus skills & attributes
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Experience building or owning authentication, SAML/SSO, identity, or access management capabilities.
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Experience securing AI-powered products or familiarity with security considerations for large language models, agentic systems, retrieval-based architectures, or AI tool integrations.
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Experience building security automation or security-focused platform capabilities at scale.
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Familiarity with cloud security, infrastructure security, or distributed systems.
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Experience working across both large-scale SaaS environments and high-growth companies.
Benefits
We are a well treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us!
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Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
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We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
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Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
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Unlimited access to Claude Code and best-in-class AI tools; experimentation & building is encouraged & celebrated.
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Pension scheme & match up to 4%
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Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
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Flexible paid time off policy
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Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
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If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too
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MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.
#LI-Hybrid
**Policies **
Fin has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.
We have a radically open and accepting culture at Fin. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.
Fin values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Fin will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Interview prep pack
Grounded in this listing. Use it to prepare examples before you apply.
Your interview focus
Based on this listing, the Application Security Engineer role at Fin focuses on designing, building, and operating critical security services and customer-facing security features for AI-powered SaaS products, with a strong emphasis on secure software development, automation, and incident response.
- Hands-on security engineering in SaaS·High
- Design and implementation of authentication/SSO·High
- Security automation and developer enablement·Medium
- Incident response leadership·Medium
Only have 30 minutes?
Follow a focused preparation plan based on this job.
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Your 30-minute plan
Review Fin's Security and Product Materials
0–5 minSpend time on Fin's website and any available documentation to understand their AI-powered customer agent and security features.
Prepare STAR Stories for Key Responsibilities
5–15 minDraft concise examples from your experience that align with the listed responsibilities, focusing on authentication, incident response, and security automation.
Refresh on Modern Authentication and Threat Modelling
15–20 minReview protocols like SAML/OAuth and frameworks such as STRIDE or DFDs to discuss architecture reviews and secure design.
Research AI Security Risks and Defenses
20–25 minRead recent articles or case studies on security challenges in AI-powered SaaS products to discuss emerging risks and solutions.
Prepare Targeted Questions for the Interviewers
25–30 minSelect and tailor questions from the list above to demonstrate your engagement and alignment with the team's mission.
Talking points
, 6 itemsEnd-to-End Application Security in SaaS
Demonstrate your experience securing SaaS products, including how you have owned or engineered critical security capabilities in production environments.
Authentication, Authorization, and Identity Systems
Showcase your expertise in designing, building, or securing authentication and authorization systems, especially SAML/SSO and enterprise controls.
Threat Modelling and Security Assessments
Prepare examples of how you have conducted architecture reviews, threat modelling, and security assessments for complex systems.
Security Automation and Developer Tooling
Highlight your experience building security tools, automation, or developer-focused solutions that enable secure development at scale.
Incident Response Leadership
Be ready to discuss your hands-on experience leading security incident response, investigations, and remediation efforts.
AI-Assisted Security and Development
Explain how you have used or supported the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and how you approach emerging security risks in AI-powered products.
What to research
, 5 itemsFin's Security Engineering Approach
Review Fin's public materials and documentation to understand their AI-first approach to security and the types of customer-facing security features they offer.
Modern Authentication and SSO Standards
Refresh your knowledge of authentication protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth, OIDC) and best practices for enterprise security controls.
Threat Modelling and Secure SDLC
Prepare to discuss frameworks and tools you use for threat modelling, architecture reviews, and integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
Security Automation and Developer Tooling
Gather examples of security automation or developer tools you have built or used, focusing on impact and scalability.
AI Security Risks and Defenses
Research current security challenges and defensive strategies for AI-powered products, especially in customer-facing SaaS contexts.
Questions to ask
, 6 itemsHow does the security engineering team collaborate with product and engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle?
Why ask this? Clarifies expectations for cross-team partnership and influence on secure development.
What are the most critical security challenges facing Fin's AI-powered products today?
Why ask this? Helps you understand the current threat landscape and where your expertise can have the most impact.
How does Fin measure the effectiveness of its security initiatives and tooling?
Why ask this? Reveals how success is defined and what metrics or outcomes are valued.
What is the team's approach to incident response and on-call rotations?
Why ask this? Provides insight into operational responsibilities and expectations for incident leadership.
How is the team leveraging AI or automation to improve security detection and response?
Why ask this? Shows your interest in innovation and alignment with the company's AI-first approach.
What opportunities exist for driving security standards or best practices across the organization?
Why ask this? Assesses your potential influence and growth in shaping secure development culture.
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