Senior/Staff Engineer, Application & Product Security

Posted Yesterday
4 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
182K-288K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Social Impact • Software
The mental health platform built for personal and professional growth.
The Role
Build and advance application and product security across the engineering organization. Responsibilities include establishing secure defaults, CI guardrails, security requirements, threat modeling, risk assessments, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, secure coding education, roadmap ownership, and hands-on code review. The role partners closely with product, engineering, DevOps, and services teams to secure applications, microservices, and AI features while enabling efficient development.
Summary Generated by Built In

Grow Therapy is on a mission to serve as the trusted partner for therapists growing their practice, and patients accessing high-quality care. Powered by technology, we are a three-sided marketplace that empowers providers, augments insurance payors, and serves patients. Following the mass increase in depression and anxiety, the need for accessibility is more important than ever. To make our vision for mental healthcare a reality, we’re building a team of entrepreneurs and mission-driven go-getters. Since launching in February 2021, we’ve empowered more than ten thousand therapists and hundreds of thousands of clients across the country and insurance landscape. We’ve raised more than $328Mm in funding, including our Series D, at a $3B valuation from Sequoia Capital, Transformation Capital, TCV, SignalFire, Menlo Ventures, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and others.

The Opportunity

You'll make the secure path - the easy path for our engineering org of roughly 145 engineers, baking secure defaults, CI guardrails, and threat modeling into the SDLC so security ships with the product instead of blocking it, including for our fast growing AI and agent features.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Champion a secure by default culture, building defense in depth into our frameworks, architecture, and everyday processes

  • Develop security requirements and work directly with teams to build them into new applications and services

  • Manually dig into our source code to build a real, working understanding of our products, not just a surface level view from tooling output

  • Drive the product security roadmap in collaboration with product, engineering, and the wider security team

  • Partner across product, engineering, DevOps, and services to ship secure software without slowing teams down

  • Design solutions that resolve and mitigate vulnerabilities and risk, and research the threats and attack methods most relevant to Grow

  • Run security risk assessments, hands on penetration testing, and threat modeling, and turn those findings into secure coding education for engineers

You'll Be a Good Fit If
  • You have 6+ years of experience in application or product security

  • You code well enough to automate tedious work and build frameworks or services that solve real security problems

  • You've been hands on with microservice architectures

  • You collaborate well, both within a security team and across the wider engineering org

  • You prioritize based on real risk, not just raw vulnerability counts

  • You've rolled up your sleeves and built a deep understanding of a codebase, rather than just talking about SAST, DAST, and SBOM tooling from the outside

  • You work well with product managers and service teams, not just engineers, and you genuinely care about the product and how it actually functions

Employment Type: Full Time, Exempt
Base Compensation: The base compensation range for this position is:

  • Hybrid Commitment: $217,000–$288,000 USD Annually

  • Fully Remote Commitment: $182,000- $240,000 USD Annually

This role can be hybrid (onsite from our NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub location three days per week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) or fully remote. Both arrangements include travel 2–3 times per year (e.g., company and department offsites).

The base compensation for this role will vary depending on several factors, including relevant experience, qualifications, and the candidate’s working location.

Full Time Employee Benefits:

  • Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.

  • Grow for Grow: No cost access to therapy through the Grow platform (available to US employees)

  • Financial Wellness: Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities to help you invest in your future.

  • Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays & Winter Break: Flexible time off, company paid holidays (which vary by country), and a full company wide Winter Break to rest and recharge

  • Parental Leave: Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave to support you and your growing family and a new child stipend.

  • Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons: Dedicated weekly flexible time for self care, whether that's therapy, exercise, journaling, time with family, or simply taking a break.

  • Wellness & Development Stipend: Annual stipend to support your personal wellbeing and professional growth, from fitness and education to books and learning resources.

  • Commuter Benefits: Pre tax commuter benefits to support teammates working from one of our hub locations.

  • Home Office & Meals: Support for your home workspace plus meal benefits, with offerings tailored to both remote and hub based employees.

  • Additional Perks: A variety of wellbeing benefits, including wellness memberships, virtual care, pet insurance discounts (where available), and global travel assistance.


Research shows that some groups hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. If you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply. At Grow, we value diverse experiences, transferable skills, and the unique strengths each person brings.

Grow Therapy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Use of AI Tools: We use certain AI and automated tools to support recruitment. These tools help our team review applications, organize interviews, detect potential application integrity issues, and maintain interview records; they do not make final hiring decisions.

Application Review: Ashby's AI-Assisted Application Review helps review application materials against role-specific criteria and may flag potential fraud or integrity issues for recruiter review. All advancement decisions are made by our human recruiting team after independent review. See Ashby's AI Bias Audit Report.

Interview Recording: We use BrightHire to record interviews, supporting note-taking and consistency across candidates. Learn more. Interviews are confidential; you may ask your interviewer to stop recording anytime, or opt out in advance. Choosing not to be recorded will not, by itself, affect your candidacy.

AI-Assisted Recruiter Screen: For select roles, BrightHire's AI features may help structure initial recruiter screens and organize interview notes. All responses are reviewed by our recruiting team; no hiring decisions are made by AI alone.

State-specific notices: Depending on your location, you may have additional rights. Illinois: If AI analyzes a video interview, we'll provide notice, explain how it works and what it evaluates, and obtain consent beforehand. New York City: Where required, we'll provide at least 10 business days’ notice before using an automated employment decision tool and explain how to request an alternative process. Maryland: We do not use facial recognition to create facial templates during interviews unless required notice and written consent are obtained.

Questions, accommodation requests, requests for an alternative selection process, objections to recording, or concerns about AI use? Contact [email protected]. We’re happy to help or offer an alternative way to participate.

Skills Required

  • 6+ years of experience in application or product security
  • Strong coding ability to automate work and build security frameworks or services
  • Hands-on experience with microservice architectures
  • Strong collaboration skills within security and engineering teams
  • Ability to prioritize security work based on actual risk
  • Deep, hands-on understanding of codebases and product functionality
  • Ability to work effectively with product managers and service teams

What the Team is Saying

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Grow Therapy Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Job postings and employer materials list comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage along with life and disability insurance for corporate roles. Employer-verified pages also reference an Employee Assistance Program and strong health-related offerings.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Public listings describe flexible or unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a company-wide winter break/recharge week. Several sources also note paid sick days and bereavement leave.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Company materials highlight weekly mental-health time (e.g., “Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons”), wellness and learning stipends, and a remote-office stipend, plus no-cost access to therapy on the platform. Flexible/hybrid work and in-office meals where applicable further reinforce lifestyle support.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
460 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Grow is a mental health platform built to enable progress. We see technology not as a layer on top of care, but as the connective tissue that helps it grow — and we believe that building it is some of the most important work there is. We are not only for crisis. We are for all the moments when someone decides they want more. More support, more clarity, more tools. Because mental health isn't a destination. It's a practice. And we are building the platform, the products, and the partnerships to make that practice possible for everyone. We are more than a marketplace — bringing together clinical expertise, always-on tools, and deep insights to help clients improve their lives, providers build practices they're proud of, and businesses offer demonstrably more effective and efficient care. So far, 15 million sessions have started on Grow, with 220M lives covered. Each one a step forward for someone, somewhere, building the life they've always wanted. Like the people we serve, we are in a process of becoming. Solving one problem. Making progress. Moving on to the next. Our founders come from Harvard Medical School, Stripe, and Blackstone — pairing bold vision with a culture of balance, belonging, and whole-person wellness. We're proud to be backed by Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, TCV, Transformation Capital, SignalFire, and Plus Capital. Progress doesn't happen on its own. It happens because of talented individuals who build for the people they love.

Why Work With Us

At Grow Therapy, we believe well-being isn’t just a perk—it’s part of how we work. From clinicians to engineers, every voice helps shape the care we build. Our mission-driven team is rethinking mental health care, supported by flexible PTO, paid winter recharge, mental health breaks, no-cost therapy through our platform, and wellness perks.

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Grow Therapy Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We value hybrid and remote work with offices located in New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
HQNew York, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle Office
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