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title: 'Founding Security Engineer at Boom'
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# Founding Security Engineer at Boom

- **Company:** Boom
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Compensation:** $120k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/boom/41de817d-2032-4649-bf3c-39f6037dd936

## Job description

## ABOUT THE JOB

## OUR MISSION

Boom https://www.boompay.app/ is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110+ million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding. Boom is building a suite of rental financial services for renters and property managers, including tenant screening, rent payment reporting, rent reporting-as-a-service, and a number of integrations with the largest property management systems (PMS). Boom serves renters through the Boom App and property managers via the Boom Platform. Now serving thousands of renters, Boom is led by second-time founder Rob Whiting https://www.linkedin.com/in/robwhiting/ (ex-BCG, Rubicon). It's backed by investors such as Starting Line https://www.startingline.vc/, Clocktower Ventures https://www.clocktowerventures.com/, Gilgamesh Ventures https://www.gilgameshvc.com/ (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2022/04/21/plaids-billionaire-cofounder-is-back-with-a-new-startupa-fintech-friendly-bank-hes-running-with-his-wife/?sh=df10dc453908 and Zach Perret https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/14/plaid-ceo-touts-new-clarity-after-failed-visa-acquisition/ (Co-founders of Plaid) and Harry Stebbings https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/16/harry-stebbings-turns-up-the-volume-on-20vc-with-new-140m-fund/. Boom has been profiled by Inman https://www.inman.com/2023/10/30/new-boom-api-to-scale-reporting-of-tenant-payments-to-credit-bureaus/, Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/boom-pitch-deck-fintech-credit-builder-seed-2023-6, HousingWire https://www.housingwire.com/articles/rent-reporting-platform-boom-raises-4-5m-in-seed-round/, and more.

## OPPORTUNITY

We're expanding our engineering team to meet the growing demands of our B2B partners and B2C users. Boom handles sensitive consumer data at scale -- credit, identity, income, an other verification data flow through our platform every day, and we report rent payments to the credit bureaus on behalf of hundreds of thousands of residents. As we move from Seed to Series A and beyond, we're hiring our Founding Security Engineer to harden our platform, mature our security posture, and partner with product engineering and infrastructure teams to bake security into how we build.

This role offers the chance to work closely with our CPO, engineering leadership, and operations, owning security as a function from the ground up. For this role, we are hiring for candidates in Austin, TX, where our leadership and product team is located. Comp range listed is directional and adjustable +/- based on competency.

Our engineering culture is hands-on and pragmatic -- we value shipping real product, maintaining high standards, and communicating clearly. If you're excited about building a security program at a fast-growing fintech and protecting data that materially impacts people's lives, reach out.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own our application and cloud security posture across our infrastructure and full stack product
- Run our SOC 2 certification effort (evidence, controls, auditor interface), interface with vendors for pen testing, and prep us for the next compliance lifts like CASA, FCRA, state-specific data regs, and enterprise security reviews
- Build the secure SDLC: threat modeling, security-sensitive code review, SAST/DAST/SCA tooling, secrets management, and dependency hygiene
- Lead incident response and vulnerability management. Triage, contain, remediate, and run blameless postmortems
- Partner with engineering on identity, access, and data handling for PII, credit, and payment data so secure-by-default is the easy path
- Own customer security questionnaires and represent Boom in security conversations with enterprise property management partners

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED

- 5+ years in security engineering or application security with hands-on web development experience. Track record securing production web apps and cloud environments, with AWS strongly preferred
- Working knowledge of SOC 2 (bonus for ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, GLBA/FCRA). You're ready to own the program, not just contribute to it
- Strong grasp of common attack classes (OWASP Top 10, auth/session, SSRF, deserialization, supply chain) and how they show up in modern web stacks
- Backend-leaning full stack on Ruby (Grape and Sequel) with React/Next.js and TypeScript on the frontend. Comfortable with third-party APIs (OAuth, webhooks, rate limits, idempotency), observability, on-call, real incidents, and Terraform
- You're already running AI coding agents autonomously, including overnight, to ship and drive your own efficiency. Daily Claude Code use is table stakes
- Strong communicator who can explain risk to non-security audiences and push back without slowing the business. Self-starter in a fast-paced, early-stage environment, with empathy for our end users including low-to-moderate-income renters whose financial data we steward

## BENEFITS OF WORKING AT BOOM

- Competitive salary with stock options
- Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
- 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year + 3 sick days + all US federal holidays (11 in total) (note: we think unlimited PTO is BS and causes some employees to feel guilty when they take it)
- Company-issued laptop/MacBook
- Company-sponsored training & development
- Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities

## About Boom

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Boom provides modern rental financial services, including tenant screening and rent reporting, to help property managers streamline operations and renters build credit.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Rob Whiting (Co‑founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services (Property Technology / Fintech)
- **Target customers**: B2B (property managers, owners/operators of multifamily, SFR, manufactured housing) and B2C (renters)
- **Mission**: “Make housing more flexible, affordable, and rewarding.”

## Products & Services
- **BoomReport**: An automated rent‑reporting solution that reports residents’ rent payments to Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, helping renters build credit. Includes a mobile app (iOS & Android) with a free credit score and a revenue‑generation option for property managers.
- **BoomScreen**: A configurable tenant‑screening tool that offers income verification (by bank, payroll, or documents), county‑level criminal and eviction reports, multi‑faceted fraud detection, and customizable data services.
- **Boom Platform (B2B)**: A SaaS platform that integrates with major property management software (Buildium, Entrata, ManageAmerica, Quext, Rent Manager, Rentvine, ResMan, Yardi, AppFolio) and provides APIs/webhooks for secure data exchange.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$4.5M** (Seed round, announced May 2023)
- **Notable Investors**: Starting Line (lead), Intuit Prosperity Accelerator (non‑equity assistance), and other individual investors including Ezra Galston, Zach & Tom Petit, and Ben Savage.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of **44 employees** (+50.9% year‑over‑year)
  - Operations in **10 countries** (US, Philippines, Vietnam, Ukraine, Israel, Georgia, Brazil, Slovakia, South Korea, Colombia)
  - Acquired **Alpaca** in July 2023
  - Annual revenue estimated at **$764,565** (LinkedIn data)
  - Active job postings: 12 (monthly trend +50%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated suite**: Offers both rent reporting and tenant screening on a single platform, creating a full lifecycle solution for property managers.
- **Deep PMS integrations**: Two‑way integrations with 10+ major property management systems, reducing friction for partners.
- **Configurable and scalable**: Modular SaaS products that can be used together or separately, with pricing discounts for bundled adoption.
- **Built in‑house**: End‑to‑end software development gives Boom control over quality, security, and feature velocity.
- **Security emphasis**: Encrypted credentials, regular penetration testing, and SOC‑like practices.

## Strategic Focus
- Drive on‑time payments, reduce fraud, and grow revenue across the renter lifecycle.
- Expand integrations with additional property management systems and enhance the renter app with full credit bureau reporting (Experian, Equifax, TransUnion).
- Grow the engineering and product teams to accelerate product development (open roles: AI Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding Security Engineer, Software Engineering Manager, etc.).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven organization emphasizing **Impact**, **Integrity**, **Grit**, and **Curiosity**.
- **Work environment**: HQ in Austin, TX, with a distributed team across 10 countries – likely remote‑friendly.
- **Growth**: High‑growth startup (+50% headcount YoY) with a clear mission and early‑stage product momentum.
- **Engineering**: Strong technical team (16 in technical roles), building modern SaaS from the ground up, with opportunities to own significant projects.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company offers a customer‑facing impact and a fast‑paced, results‑oriented culture.

## Sources
1. [boompay.app](https://www.boompay.app/)
2. [boompay.app/about-us](https://www.boompay.app/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/boom-pay](https://www.linkedin.com/company/boom-pay)
4. [theorg.com/org/boompay-app](https://theorg.com/org/boompay-app)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/boom-pay/__swdT7Vw6m1bGLI0NqQs3jK5JkuHSWXpw-6rgrpX8Ga0)

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