Application Security Engineer

About the role

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At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table. As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries.

Proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive. If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready.

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What you will do:

Are you passionate about securing the application development pipelines and ensuring the security of web applications? Are you looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment? If so, TheFork is looking to hire an Application Security Engineer for our ever-growing security team. In this role, you will evaluate the security posture of TheFork’s applications and systems.

Main activities:

- Scanning TheFork web applications looking for vulnerabilities and ensuring they get fixed

- Working knowledge of any object-oriented programming language (eg. Node / Typescript)

- Strong IaaS security skills, with a focus on cloud technologies like AWS.

- Researching new security threats, vulnerabilities, and exploit techniques

- Responding to new security threats and helping implement new requirements

- Provides technical guidance and oversight when working with developers

- Work in a team environment while maintaining the confidentiality of investigation information

- Strong knowledge of working with OWASP concepts for various solutions

Who you are:

- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a technical field i.e. Information Systems or Computer Science.

- Security certifications are desired but not required (CISSP, GIAC, CEH, Security+, CSSLP).

- At least 4+ years of demonstrated manual security testing

- You must have a solid understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and general application security requirements

- Experience implementing and operating security technologies and processes in a hybrid cloud environment, such as AWS.

- Strong understanding of IT operations and service support processes

What we offer you:

😄 An awesome team (not everybody like our jokes, but we try our best)

🏠 A Permanent contract (that can be useful in life)

💸 Competitive fixed salary & bonus

🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)

🌎 International teams - More than 30 nationalities and 16 offices worldwide

🏳️‍🌈 Highly inclusive working environment