Head of Engineering, Security (Based in Singapore/ Taiwan/ Vietnam, relocation provided)

ABOUT USThe ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 40 million shoppers across 11 markets.
Driven by the vision to become the world's most rewarding way to shop, ShopBack is dedicated to saving members money and time, while delivering delightful experiences with every purchase. The platform also enables merchants and brands to engage with their members in a cost-effective manner.
Founded in 2014, ShopBack now powers over US$3.7 billion in annual sales for over 20,000 online and in-store partners, with over half a million transactions happening via the platform daily. In 2022, ShopBack expanded its offerings into the realm of financial services with the launch of ShopBack Pay and PayLater - providing members with responsible and convenient payment options at checkout, while empowering partners with more ways to engage potential customers.==========
About the Role
We are serious about protecting our infrastructure, operations, and, most importantly, our customers’ data. We take a systematic approach to security and strive to ensure we provide low friction, high-impact security across everything we do. You care about shipping secure products and ensuring that the way in for the bad guys is never through the front door. You are passionate about understanding the threat landscape in which web services and client applications must excel in order to protect user data. In this role, you will provide strategic technical leadership to ShopBack’s product development. Your work will directly impact the way millions of people, teams, and businesses use ShopBack.

What you will be doing

• Help build a multi-year strategy for improving the security of ShopBack’s web service and client applications
• Articulate ShopBack Product Security strategy, vision, and initiatives in external and internal venues
• Managing the engineers who are responsible for black-box penetration testing, bug bounty, SDL, and feature reviews
• Mentor Product Security engineers to be more effective and impactful and reach their goals
• Partner with the CTO and other product engineering leaders to identify intrinsic product weaknesses, build component-specific security roadmaps to address them, and assist with the execution of those roadmaps
• Represent the team in planning and product decisions
• Align the team with security and company-wide goals
• Participate in our incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts
• Help implement application security tools and develop new automation and tooling
• Stay abreast of the latest industry trends, technologies, and regulatory developments related to information security governance, and make recommendations for continuous improvement
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the security governance framework (security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines) to safeguard company information assets and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations
• Conduct or support regular risk assessments, security audits, certificate renewal, and compliance reviews
• Conduct regular security awareness and training programs to educate employees about security risks, policies, and best practices

What you should have

• 10+ years experience in software development
• Several years of serving in security management or senior security leadership role
• Deep understanding of web application architecture and design principles
• Knowledge of internet security issues in software design and code Experience in writing understandable, testable, secure code with an eye toward maintainability
• Experience identifying and protecting against web and mobile applications and web service security vulnerabilities, including those found in the OWASP Top 10
• Possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized. With many people doing many things in a fast-moving company, strong organizational skills—both for yourself and for the team—will be required
• Able to weigh several, often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
• Familiarity with common web application testing tools (Burp Suite, etc)
• Development experience in one or more of these languages: Java, JavaScript / TypeScript, NodeJS, PHP, and Python
• Possess strong knowledge of the browser security model, crypto, and network security
• Design and development of security-related education/training for all ShopBack software engineers
• Experience with Amazon AWS services and familiarity with ShopBack products is a plus