Application Security Engineer

Company Description

Employer: Flywire Corporation

Location: 141 Tremont St., 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02111; Telecommuting permissible.

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you! 

Who we are: 

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.

Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,800+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!

With over 1,200+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description

Job Description: Review new projects or changes to existing ones from a security point of view. Ensure security is considered part of the company’s software development life cycle. Perform security reviews to assess general controls including but not limited to: access control, data access and management, application security specific controls and integration with our automated suite of security tests, and part of the application deployment into the production environment. Review new vendors of the company and integrations with these vendors from a security point of view.  Perform reviews of new 3rd party vendors to assess the security posture of the vendor, any integrations with systems of the company, and a general controls’ security analysis of any required integrations. Support security related requests coming from development teams. Assist with developing and maintaining compliance for company’s security policies by developing policies, procedures and standards, automated security controls into the deployment system, ensuring awareness for development teams and monitoring of any application security aspects in the software development lifecycle. Respond to support tickets opened by development and product teams that might include inquiries on security controls, management of application secrets and other reviews of various scenarios from a security point of view. Telecommuting permissible from anywhere in the U.S.

Qualifications

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign degree equivalent in Digital Science, Computer Science or related field and two (2) years of experience in Information Security or in the job offered or related role.

Skills: Experience and/or education must include: 

1. Application security experience (e.g. as many of: source code auditing, threat modeling, product assessments, vulnerability research, development of security tools and automation);

2. Cloud technologies and containerization of applications in the cloud;

3. Basic programming skills, capability to understand written programming code, and abilities to write short automation scripts;

4. Application security risks in web application, capability to explain the OWASP Top 10 risks and provide mitigation options; and

5. General knowledge of applied cryptography.

Additional Information

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is $78,000/year - $128,000/year plus restricted stock units and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, position level, and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education and training. Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 40 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

CONTACT: Reference job #UB-LEG-011 and send resume to apply.us@flywire.com.