Security Engineer
The Better Money Company is building a stablecoin clearinghouse that connects stablecoin issuers with fintechs, banks, neobanks, payment companies, and other businesses. Its platform is designed to provide 1:1 stablecoin fungibility, transparent pricing, predictable settlement, and compliant movement of stablecoins.
About The Better Money Company
The Better Money Company operates a technology platform providing stablecoin swapping, clearing facilitation, and related services through APIs, interfaces, dashboards, and other tools. Its clearinghouse connects fragmented stablecoin ecosystems across issuers and blockchains, enabling customers to accept, send, swap, and settle supported stablecoins at par with predictable pricing and settlement times. The company focuses on enterprise customers such as stablecoin issuers, fintechs, neobanks, payment companies, banks, and other businesses building stablecoin-based payment products. Its services are designed for compliant, programmable, and interoperable movement of stablecoins, with custody and certain financial services provided by third-party providers.
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About the Role
You'll lead how the company thinks about code and operational security as it scales. You'll help design the systems, practices, and safeguards that enable growth without compromising trust. You'll own the security posture across application, infrastructure, and operational security, conduct code reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing, and design security controls and incident response processes appropriate for a regulated payments environment. You'll also build internal security tooling, hire and manage specialist contractors or future security hires, and work closely with engineering to embed security into the development lifecycle from the start.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, with meaningful time at a payments company, bank, or other regulated financial institution
- Experience with cloud environments such as GCP and infrastructure as code providers such as Terraform
- Breadth across application/code security and operational security
- Ability to write production code, not just review it
- Experience building security programs at early-stage or high-growth companies, ideally from scratch
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to payments and banking, including SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and state money transmission
- Based in New York City or willing to relocate
Responsibilities
- Own security posture across application security, infrastructure security, and operational security
- Conduct code reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing to identify and remediate vulnerabilities
- Design and implement security controls, monitoring, and incident response processes appropriate for a regulated payments environment
- Establish security policies, procedures, and compliance frameworks including SOC 2 and PCI-DSS as the company scales
- Hire, manage, and supervise specialist contractors or future security hires as the team grows
- Ship internal security tooling and features
- Work closely with engineering to embed security into the development lifecycle from the start
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision)
- Unlimited vacation
- Periodic off-sites