Application Security Team Lead
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You may be located anywhere in Poland and work remotely or out of our Cracow office.Full-TimeLead
Salary25,000 - 32,000 PLN per month
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Job Details
- Languages
- En C1
- Required Skills
- RESTful APIsMicroservices
Requirements
- Significant professional experience in Application Security, Product Security, or Secure Software Development
- Demonstrated track record of leading or mentoring security engineers
- Proven ability to lead a small team- set priorities, delegate effectively, develop people, and deliver results
- Deep understanding of common vulnerability classes (injection, broken access control, cryptographic failures, SSRF, etc.)
- Strong hands-on experience with penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and modern cloud-native architectures
- Solid knowledge of authentication, authorization, cryptography, and API security patterns
- Experience building or maturing an application security program- defining processes, tooling strategy, and metrics
- Experience with security testing methodologies and tools across SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA
- Familiarity with microservices architectures and cloud environments, particularly AWS
- Excellent communication skills- able to articulate technical risks to engineers and leadership
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of Application Security Engineers, setting direction, coaching, and owning the AppSec roadmap and KPIs
- Drive end-to-end application security: threat modeling, design reviews, internal pen-testing, manual/automated code reviews, and security testing (SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA)
- Own vulnerability management and bug bounty: define processes and SLAs, triage and validate findings, and drive remediation with engineering teams
- Define and optimize the AppSec tooling stack, integrating security deeply into CI/CD and developer workflows to “shift left” without slowing delivery
- Secure AI/ML features and LLM integrations, assessing AI-specific risks and defining guardrails and best practices for safe adoption
- Set secure coding standards (OWASP) and scale a security-first culture through training, documentation, and security champion initiatives
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