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# Senior Security Engineer at Greenlight Financial Technology

- **Company:** Greenlight Financial Technology
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/0b9458c9-ea5d-4c16-b213-50c8883483d6

## Job description

Greenlight is a family technology company on a mission to help families raise financially smart kids and navigate life together. Its suite of products — including the Greenlight app, debit card, Safe Family GPS trackers, and Family Hub — brings together financial tools, safety features, and everyday family management in one connected experience. Designed for busy families who want convenience without compromise, Greenlight continues to innovate alongside the evolving needs of modern life. Today, more than 6.5 million family members trust Greenlight to stay in sync. At Greenlight, we're here to make the day-to-day easier and futures brighter, so families can spend less time managing life, and more time living it. That's why we get out of bed every morning.

Technologies we use:

- Backend: Node.js, Kotlin, Java, Go
- Frontend: React, Redux, Swift, Kotlin
- REST, gRPC, graphQL
- AWS
- MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
- Kubernetes, Ambassador, Helm, Rancher

What you will be doing:

- Support in executing a comprehensive product security strategy that aligns with the company's goals and risk appetite.
- You will work hands on across code, infrastructure, and CI/CD to create agents, services and pipelines that detect, prevent and remediate risks leveraging AI where it adds value.
- Design, build and operate security automation for the SDLC (code scanning, dependency risk management, secrets detection, policy-as-code) integrated into CI/CD.
- Perform Manual Design and Implementation Reviews of Greenlight products and services from a security perspective.
- Establish and enforce secure development standards (i.e. API security, Security patterns, IaC, etc.)  and best practices across the organization.
- Serve as SME on the practical security of our AI and LLM ecosystem. Lead threat modeling exercises for novel AI systems applying advanced security and privacy best practices.
- Leverage automations and tools to continuously test, fuzz and validate products and platform components for security issues.
- Perform Penetration testing and retesting to validate fixes.
- Responsible for triaging findings from security researchers and leading incident response for PSIRT.
- OnCall support for incident response and lead product-related security events and vulnerabilities.
- Partner with engineering, product, and platform teams to embed security by design patterns, drive threat modeling and land pragmatic guardrails that unblock developers.
- Provide guidance and education to developers that help prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities.
- Partner closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to prioritize and remediate security vulnerabilities in a timely and efficient manner.
- Develop and maintain software supply chain protections including SBOM generation/verification, artifact signing/attestation, and provenance enforcement.
- Build automation for  static and dynamic analysis and frameworks that enable Greenlight to scale consistently across all our products.
- Use data and telemetry to measure control effectiveness, build dashboards and alerts that turn signals into action.
- Document runbacks and API, mentor engineers and champion secure engineering practices.
- Foster a culture of security awareness and ownership across the Engineering and Product organizations.
- Stay current with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry best practices to continuously evolve our security controls and processes.

## What you should bring

- 5+ years of experience finding security vulnerabilities, security code reviews  and knowledge of secure code development for the technology stack at Greenlight.
- 2-4 years experience with the threat modeling process and ability to find design problems based on technical architecture and data flow diagrams.
- Experience with exploiting common security vulnerabilities
- Deep technical knowledge of web and mobile application security, common vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, common exploit mitigations and secure architecture patterns.
- Experience integrating or building AI-powered tools to assist with vulnerability detection, code review or threat modeling.
- Experience creating software that enables security processes especially those leveraging AI/ML for automation or augmentation.
- End to end experience on implementing and managing tools for Product Security (i.e. API Security, Mobile Protection, SAST, runtime scanning, etc.)
- Experience with software development and automation that enables security processes. Deep technical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and relevant tools for web and mobile applications.
- Hands-on experience with security tools for SAST, DAST, IAST, and penetration testing. Fuzzing skills are good to have.
- Skilled in scripting, automation and exploit writing.
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles in AWS environments.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong product sense for rapid iteration and refinement based on data, combined with a collaborative mindset to work closely with engineers, product managers, and security analysts in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have:

- Strong at abstraction turning bespoke engagements into reusable patterns and reference implementation.
- Security assessment of IoT hardware/firmware
- Contribution to security community including public research, bug bounty, presentations, blogs, etc
- Experience at Fintech or similar regulated companies
- Startup Agility and stay curious mindset

Who we are: It takes a talented team to aim for a mission like ours. We're looking for people who ask "is it bold enough?" People who bring their real selves to the table and push the people around them to do the same. We win by never hesitating to jump in, offer a hand, or share the credit, because we know we're stronger together than apart. And through all of it, the mission stays the thing we measure ourselves against: are we doing right by the families counting on us? If that sounds like your kind of team, we'd love for you to apply.

Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Greenlight is committed to an inclusive work environment and interview experience. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in our hiring process, please reach out to your recruiter directly or email accomodations@greenlight.me.

## About Greenlight Financial Technology

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Greenlight is a financial technology company that offers an all-in-one family finance app with a debit card for kids and teens, cash back credit card for parents, and app-based tools for earning, saving, spending wisely, giving, and investing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; 8 prior funding rounds, latest known Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States (303 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 4300)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Tim Sheehan (CEO) and Johnson Cook (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Consumer Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2C (families with children and teens) and B2B2C (financial institutions seeking to offer family banking products; the company actively hires Account Executives for financial institution partnerships)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids."

## Products & Services
- **Greenlight App**: The flagship mobile platform where parents manage allowances, automate chores, set flexible spend controls, and monitor real-time notifications of kids' money activity.
- **Greenlight Debit Card**: A debit card for kids and teens with parental controls and real-time alerts.
- **Greenlight Credit Card**: A cash back credit card designed for parents, integrated within the same app.
- **Investing Features**: Teens and kids can learn to invest with parental approval.
- **Parents & Family Dashboard**: Tools for saving, giving, earning, and spend management across the household.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed in available sources (conflicting reports not available; company is private)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$615.6M** across 8 rounds; Annual Revenue estimated at **$40.5M**
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust/Truist, Synchrony Financial; Series C led by Canapi Ventures and TTV Capital ($215M, 2020); Series D of $260M (2021)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Workforce of 403 employees (+1.4% YoY), distributed across 16 countries including US, India, Argentina, Brazil, and Ecuador
  - Named to CB Insights' Fintech 250
  - 22 active job postings across engineering, product, growth, and enterprise sales at time of research
  - Product expansion into enterprise sales with financial institutions
  - 46,697 LinkedIn followers (+17.8% yearly growth)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category leadership in family fintech**: One of the most recognized brands dedicated specifically to kids' banking and parental financial controls — with millions of parents and kids using the product.
- **Strong institutional backing**: Deep-pocketed investors from both venture capital (NEA, Drive Capital, TTV, Relay) and strategic financial heavyweights (JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Ally, Synchrony, Amazon) provide capital, distribution, and credibility.
- **Mission-driven engagement**: High employee satisfaction (89% Great Place To Work score) tied to a purpose-led product mission.
- **Dual B2C + B2B2C model**: Direct consumer app plus partnerships with financial institutions expand reach beyond organic growth.
- **Regulatory and trust infrastructure**: Operates as a fintech with bank partnerships and a strong security/IT leadership team (dedicated CIO/CISO Prabhath Karanth).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and innovation**: The executive team includes a Senior VP of Engineering focused on "innovation and AI," signaling investment in AI-driven product features.
- **Enterprise expansion**: Hiring of Head of Enterprise Sales and Account Executives for Financial Institutions indicates a push into bank/credit union partnerships and embedded family banking products.
- **Product-led growth**: Active openings for Senior Product Manager (Website, Growth), Growth Marketing, and Developer Experience roles — showing simultaneous emphasis on top-of-funnel acquisition and internal platform improvements.
- **Global talent posture**: Operating in a distributed model with hubs in Atlanta and Bengaluru, leveraging a US+India hybrid model for engineering and operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & recognition**: 89% of employees say Greenlight is a great place to work (vs. 57% at a typical US company). Recognized as #11 Fortune Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance 2022 (Small & Medium), #65 Best Medium Workplaces 2022, and #37 Best Workplaces for Millennials 2022.
- **Flexibility**: Remote-friendly environment for US employees; hybrid working model in India. Offices exist in the US (Atlanta HQ) and India (Bengaluru).
- **US benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, FSA, unlimited/flexible personal time off, up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, 401K match, personal financial planners, and ongoing learning/career development.
- **India benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, OPD, hybrid work, wellness programs, in-office meals/snacks, child care with discounted enrollment, and cab facility for round-trip office travel.
- **Strong talent retention signals**: Employees join from PayPal, Goldman Sachs, Intuit Mailchimp, IBM, and Kabbage; alumni go on to major companies like American Express, Microsoft, Citi, Capital One, and Amazon — indicating strong career development and marketability.
- **Engineering culture**: Large technical org (~171 employees in technical functions, ~26% of workforce) with dedicated roles for developer experience, offensive security, and data platform, signaling a mature engineering organization.

## Sources
1. [greenlight.com](https://greenlight.com/careers)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/greenlight/)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenlightcard)
4. [greenlight.com](https://greenlight.com/leadership)
5. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7024730)

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