# Senior Application Security Engineer at Savvy

- Company: Savvy
- What the company does: Backed by Techstars.
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: NYC Office
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $235K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/savvy/7ef904d4-8dbf-4ad6-8bf7-328c6f72e644
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/savvy-senior-application-security-engineer/

## 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

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