Application Security Engineer

New Day At NewDay, our business is focused on a single, clear and defining purpose: to help people move forward with credit. Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams. Your new role at NewDay We’re seeking an engineer who is enthusiastic about identifying and solving software security challenges to join our Application Security team. The team collaborates with product and engineering departments to ensure the secure provision of robust and resilient software on our platform. Responsibilities: Integrating security into our software development lifecycle and developing security automation tools. Performing threat modeling to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities in applications. Performing static and dynamic code analysis to detect security vulnerabilities. Providing security training and outreach, offering advice and guidance to our engineering colleagues. Assessing the risk associated with identified vulnerabilities and helping our engineering colleagues to prioritize remediation efforts. What you’ll bring: We need knowledge, experience + expertise in: Background in securing Web applications and APIs. Understanding of how cloud-native platforms, serverless applications, and microservices are built. Familiarity with Secure Software Development Lifecycle, and tooling such as SAST, DAST, Secrets Scanning. Ability to model threats and review the security of systems design, identifying risks and issues. And would love you to know or learn: Experience in FinTech, consumer lending, or card issuing. Understanding of how to build, test, and deploy software at scale. Identity and Access Management– modern web-based methods of authentication, OIDC, OAuth. Offensive Security – Hands-on experience of vulnerability assessments and penetration testing. Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks and standards, e.g., OWASP, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR. Familiarity with Agile methodologies like SCRUM/Kanban Board. Where next? Let’s talk about this role – Apply now About NewDay We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too. We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid, and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos, and DEKO. At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions. At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us. NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks. #J-18808-Ljbffr