Security Engineer

Our Values

THE GOLDEN RULE

Whether we’re dealing with colleagues or customers, we follow The Golden Rule, treating others the way we want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, but it’s also significant: we don’t prioritize money or growth over people, and we practice empathy at every opportunity.

CALM FOCUS

We work in tech and build solutions for real estate. Both are fast-paced and stressful industries. So it’s important that  we focus on the larger objective rather than rushing from one task to the next. If something is out of scope, we say “No.” If something feels rushed, we pump the brakes. This calm focus helps us create solutions our customers love.

ONE TEAM, ONE DREAM

Big problems require big solutions. We look at our customers’ experience holistically, and recognize that solving them requires collaboration across teams. This approach extends to cooperation among our three affiliate companies — Homeward, Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title — and produces  a more integrated homebuying experience.

About the opportunity

We're seeking a Security Engineer to join our IT team focused on providing best in class support through modern technology solutions. This role will play a key part in implementing key security measures across our technical systems to deliver on our mission of building a simpler, more streamlined and customer-centric home buying and selling experience.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

In this role, you will

• Provide subject matter expertise on SaaS system architecture, authentication and system security
• Plan, measure, deploy, and manage security solutions in a cloud native environment
• Identify and implement security measures and assessment to improve incident response, and system audits
• Respond to security incidents and complete post incident reviews
• Coordinate incident response across cross-functional and executive stakeholders
• Develop technical solutions and controls to address security vulnerabilities
• Research new attack vectors and developing threat models which are aligned with business outcomes
• Drive manual process improvements through automation 

What you’ll bring

• Industry standard certifications such as: GCSP/CISSP, Security +, CEH
• Communication expertise to work cross-functionally to analyze and propose application security standards, methods, and architectures.
• Ability to design and communicate appropriate mitigation strategies for reported vulnerabilities.
• Interest in educating others on security best practices.
• Ability to professionally handle communications with outside researchers, users, and customers.
• Ability to communicate clearly on technical issues.
• Familiarity with common security libraries, security controls, and common security flaws that apply to Ruby on Rails applications.
• Knowledge of modern identity and access management technologies such as IDP, SASE, MDM, SAML, SCIM, and Oauth
• Knowledge of browser-based security controls such as decentralized secure web gateways
• Experience with standard web application security tools 

Pay and benefits

• Compensation range: $120-$145k
• Remote-first environment (our Headquarters are in Austin, TX, come visit!)
• Company-wide bonus 
• Exciting stock option grant for every full-time employee 
• 401(k) employer contribution match 
• Health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Twenty days of vacation, five sick days, twelve company holidays, and two floating holidays each year
• Generous paid parental leave of up to 14 weeks

Go here to learn about how Homeward takes care of our team by providing a generous package of benefits.

About Homeward

Buying a home should be an exciting milestone. But all too often, it’s stressful, especially in a competitive market or when you’re buying and selling at the same time. So we’re redesigning the home-buying experience. We’re a fast-paced real estate startup that empowers agents to help homebuyers buy with cash. We buy homes on behalf of our partners’ clients with our cash, then the client buys the home back from us. 

Founder and CEO Tim Heyl, a 10-year industry veteran and owner of one of the fastest-growing agent teams in the country, started Homeward in 2018. In fact, he bought our first customer’s home with his own life savings. Today we offer two services — Buy with cash and Buy before you sell.

We’ve raised more than $160MM in equity capital from top-tier venture investors, including Norwest, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Adams Street, Javelin, and LiveOak. Our leadership team includes experts from the real estate, mortgage, and technology industries.