Helping the Everyday Consumer Build Financial Health 

OppFi is a leading financial technology platform that powers banks to help the everyday consumer gain access to credit. Through our unwavering commitment to customer service, OppFi helps consumers who are turned away by traditional providers build a better financial path. OppFi is an Inc. 5000 company for five straight years, a Deloitte's Technology Fast 500™, and the seventh fastest-growing Chicagoland company by Crain's Chicago Business. The company was also named on Forbes America 2021 list of America's Best Startup Employers and Built In's 2021 Best Places to Work in Chicago. We welcome individuals to join us in facilitating financial inclusion and credit access for everyday consumers to live the life they deserve.

OppFi is a team of caring, innovative, and inclusive individuals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Our employees approach every new challenge with an unparalleled ability to see what could be rather than settle for what is. We want people to be excited to come to work every day and know you are a part of making a difference. Our company values guide us and create an open and collaborative culture where we hold the door, say what we see, do what we say, and dare to win together!

The Senior Application Security Engineer coordinates with partners to implement solutions that protect the company, it's systems and data, to ensure the organization's technology ecosystem is designed with industry best security practices and company policy. Reporting to the Director of Application Security and IT GRC, you will work with IT staff to improve the security of our services, and design technical solutions to address security weaknesses.

If you enjoy analyzing system services, spotting issues in code, networks and applications from a security perspective, and have to recognize security issues that appear under new threat scenarios, then the application security engineer is for you.

What you get to do:

• Work with developers to educate on secure development practices, write code reviews, and align solutions to organizational standards.
• Provide penetration testing support, project security reviews, and application scanning processes throughout the stages of the software development lifecycle.
• Track security vulnerabilities and exposure in our third-party libraries, and manage mitigation implementations.
• Work to mature our internal libraries, build systematic protections for classes of vulnerabilities, and to shield developers from dangerous code or unsafe defaults in third-party libraries.
• Manage third-party code reviews for high-exposure projects.
• Integrate static analysis into our continuous integration process and helping developers understand how to manage risk in their code.
• Advocate for security across the company

What you will bring to the team:

• 10+ years work experience in application development or application security
• Experience with web application penetration testing
• Professional development in at least two or more languages - we use Ruby, Python, Clojure, and Apex (Salesforce)
• Experience deploying SAST tooling and integrate it into developer workflows
• Supply chain security management with Artifactory or similar
• In-depth experience with web vulnerabilities, including deploying best-practice framework fixes into legacy codebases
• Experience with independent or dev-paired code reviews, including both finding vulnerabilities and teaching developers how to find and reduce issues
• Experience mentoring other engineers in security

Reports to: Director Application Security & IT GRC

Job Level: Senior Security Engineer I, Application Security 

The minimum salary based on qualifications and experience is $127,000. The total compensation package includes eligibility for performance-based bonuses as well as a 1-time equity grant based on level.

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package and benefits, will be at the company’s sole discretion, and determined by a myriad of factors including, but not limited to, years of experience, depth of experience, and other relevant business considerations.

Define your career at OppFi

OppFi is committed to providing an exceptional employee experience from Day 1. Key new hire programs include Day 1 Orientation, training with your manager and team, lunches with our CEO and President, and an educational summit featuring presentations by our senior leaders. Throughout and beyond your first-year journey, you'll have access to a variety of events focused on culture, inclusion, connection, and education. We want you to feel welcomed, informed, and valued for who you are and what you bring to our company. 

• Day 1 - Month 3: Define Your Mission

You’ll understand our company mission, values, and vision, and how your position at OppFi plays a part in that. With the help of your manager, you’ll set mission-aligned goals to make an impact in your role.

• Months 3 - 6: Define Your Belonging

You’ll understand OppFi’s culture and know how to engage with and influence that culture.

• Months 6 - 12: Define Your Journey

You’ll feel confident in your ability to execute in your role and empowered to take next steps in developing your career at OppFi.

Compensation and Benefits

OppFi offers a flexible remote environment, 401(k) matching program, and flexible paid vacation. Other benefits include medical benefits, dental and vision coverage, and tuition reimbursement. To support your wellness & growth, we provide monthly meditation and yoga classes and access to all LinkedIn Learning courses. We also offer Fringe, which is a lifestyle benefits platform that lets you decide how you want to spend your rewards from dozens of vendors like Uber, Doordash and Urban Sitter. Dress code is casual. 

EEOC Statement: 

OppFi is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on any actual or perceived legally recognized protected bases under local, state, or federal law or regulations. Our goal as a company is to build an equitable workplace that actively works to dismantle systems of oppression in our processes, procedures, and interactions. We aim to help our employees thrive where they work and beyond. Check out our Culture page here.

OppFi is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, OppFi will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at [email protected]. 

Pursuant to the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act, OppFi is providing the "OppFi California Employee Privacy Policy", which details the categories of personal information collected and your rights under the policy. If you are a California resident, please review the policy here: https://www.oppfi.com/careers/