Chime
Senior Application Security Engineer
$213K–$295K
San Francisco, CA, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in application security.
About the job
Secures Chime’s mobile applications and full application stack through hands-on testing, reviews, remediation, and security capabilities that help teams ship safely.
What you'll do
- Build security capabilities, automation, and guardrails; conduct application and API/backend penetration tests and help remediate vulnerabilities.
- Review architecture and code across mobile, API, and backend systems, and partner with engineering and product teams to embed security throughout development.
- Use AI to accelerate security workflows and help define production-grade security controls for AI-enabled features.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of application security experience, with hands-on experience across mobile and backend systems.
- Production experience securing iOS and Android applications.
- Experience with mobile security testing, including static and dynamic analysis; understanding of mobile threat models and platform security features and limitations.
- Practical coding experience; ability to communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and remediation guidance.
Pay
$213,000 — $295,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
iOS, Android, Ruby, Go, Python
AI focus
Use AI to accelerate code review support, triage, and threat modeling; partner on production-grade security controls for AI-enabled features.
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