Application Security Engineer

About the role

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Role summary

We are seeking an Application Security Engineer to join our Cyber Team in Payoneer. As an Application Security Engineer, you will be responsible for overall Application Security standards, guidelines, and requirements for different groups in Payoneer. Your expertise in secure architecture, design, and SSDLC will play a crucial role in ensuring the security of our products and the protection of our sensitive financial data. This is a strategic position that offers an opportunity to shape and drive the security initiatives of our cutting-edge fintech solutions.

Glilot Hybrid Full-time

What you’ll do:

- Review and approve secure architecture designs for new features and use-cases for Payoneer customers, partners, integrators or in-house solutions, considering best practices, regulatory requirements and business objectives, as well as many AI initiatives and use-cases.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (mainly R&D and DevOps/DevSecOps) to define security requirements and design robust security controls for systems, both on-prem and in the cloud.

- Define CI/CD processes and gates, such as SAST, SCA, Secret scanning and image/containers scanning during CI and Runtime.

- Provide technical guidance and expertise to internal teams in selecting and integrating in-house solutions or third-party vendors.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest security technologies, threats, and trends, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

- Serve as a subject matter expert on application security, providing guidance and mentorship to other teams in the company.

- Optimizing AppSec processes and workflows through AI-powered tooling and automation.

- Assist in creating or researching for security solutions – solving security challenges, both on-prem, in the cloud and in the AI domain.

Who you are:

- 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including at least 2 years of experience in Application Security \ Product Security.

- In-depth understanding of CI/CD workflows and methodology (Azure DevOps and Github is an advantage).

- Familiarity with AI/agentic architectures and the MCP, with hands-on experience building custom skills and agents for security use cases.