Company Overview (Ignosis):
Ignosis is a well-capitalized FinTech company with a bold vision for transforming the BFSI landscape in India. Backed by leading investors, we’re building the future of financial data intelligence — enabling hyper-personalization, intelligent automation, and democratized access to credit. Our mission is to empower financial institutions with next-gen technology and actionable insights. At Ignosis, we don’t just adapt to change — we drive it. Join our fast-growing team and help us push the boundaries of what’s possible in finance.
Welcome to Ignosis, where we’re not just embracing the future; we’re crafting it with a spirit that’s as bold as it is brilliant. Join us, and let’s redefine what’s possible together.
About the Role
Product Security Engineer will help us build and champion our security-first culture across the engineering teams. As a Product Security Engineer, you will have broad ownership—ranging from security architecture and tooling to threat modeling, incident readiness, and compliance enablement.
This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in startup environments, takes initiative, and can operate independently while driving company-wide security strategy and execution.
Key Responsibilities
Security Strategy & Architecture
- Define and implement the end-to-end product and infrastructure security roadmap.
- Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and drive adoption of security best practices across engineering.
- Evaluate and harden architecture for secure scalability in our cloud-native environment.
Offensive Security Testing
- Lead web and API penetration testing, combining automated tools and manual techniques.
- Own internal VAPT cycles—scheduling, tooling, execution, and remediation guidance.
- Champion a shift-left mindset through secure code review and training initiatives.
Source Code & Secure Development
- Build a robust static and dynamic analysis framework (e.g., Semgrep, SAST).
- Guide developers in writing secure code, review high-risk PRs, and maintain security linting pipelines.
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
- Lead AWS security architecture reviews and hardening.
- Partner with DevOps/SREs to secure CI/CD, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
- Own identity and access management (IAM), least privilege design, and auditability.
Security Engineering & Automation
- Design and build security automation pipelines and tooling to scale your impact.
- Maintain a library of security utilities for internal developer use.
- Integrate open-source or custom tools into the SDLC (e.g., threat detection, fuzzing, SBOMs).
Incident Response & Resilience
- Establish a repeatable incident response playbook and ensure team preparedness.
- Lead root cause analysis and postmortem reviews of any security events.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in application security, cloud security, or security engineering roles.
- Demonstrated expertise in web application security, API security, AWS security, and secure software development.
- Hands-on experience with manual and automated pentesting, VAPT, threat modeling, and code audits.
- Strong background in scripting or software development
- Familiarity with security frameworks and tools (e.g., Burp Suite, Semgrep, KICS, Trivy, OSQuery).
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling integration.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Willingness to work onsite and closely with engineers, product managers, and leadership.
What’s in it for you?
- Contribute directly to the next wave of growth for the FinTech industry in India by working closely on Digital Public Infrastructure like AA and OCEN-ONDC network (also touted as one of the next UPI moments of India)
- High exposure to the founders to understand how he thinks & solve the pressing issues of the clients with him.
- Get to work with the largest banks, NBFCs and FinTech players in India and solve their pressing problems.
- Last but not the least, an industry competitive compensation package.
To conclude, this position is tailor-made for individuals who thrive in dynamic,
fast-paced environments and are passionate about creating influential fintech Products.
At Ignosis, a funded company with strong investor backing, you’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact. Be part of our transformative journey. Toapply, send your resume to careers@ignosis.ai