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About the role
We are seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to join Savvy Wealth at our NYC headquarters as our first dedicated security hire. This is a hands-on, in-the-weeds engineering role. You will execute the security strategy set by our Director of IT & Information Security and our CTO, with day-to-day work centered on identifying vulnerabilities, remediating them, and closing the longer-term gaps that make us exposed, both in our product and in the SaaS tools our teams use every day.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, with significant time in application security or product security
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, comfortable reading, writing, and remediating code, not just filing findings
- Track record of enforcing security across technical and non-technical teams without slowing anyone down. The goal isn't to restrict how people work, it's to keep us safe while they keep working the way they need to
- Experience embedding security into existing workflows rather than bolting it on
- Deep experience with the modern AppSec toolchain: secrets scanning, SCA/dependency scanning, SAST, and CI/CD security integration (GitHub-centric)
- Practical experience securing SaaS environments: OAuth and third-party app review, configuration hardening, and least-privilege access design
More about this role
Wealth management is a $545 billion industry that still runs on manual work. 75% of advisors offer no digital communication beyond email, and most still build financial plans by hand in Excel. Savvy is reinventing what it looks like to be a financial advisor. Founder Ritik Malhotra saw the fragmentation firsthand after seeking out his own advisor, and started Savvy to give independent advisors a modern, AI-native home.
Savvy is a registered investment advisor (RIA), and we partner with experienced financial advisors who want to grow without running the back office themselves. Advisors bring their book and join Savvy, running under their own brand (or ours), and Savvy earns a percentage of the assets they manage. In return, they get a true business-in-a-box: a proprietary tech platform and client portal, an in-house marketing team that helps them grow, a world-class investment management team, and a dedicated client services team that runs day-to-day operations and support. Advisors at Savvy service up to 50% more households and save 19 hours a week.
AI runs through everything we do. On the product side, Savvy Intelligence (released April 2026) is the only AI built for wealth...
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