Staff Security Engineer

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way.

As a Staff Security Engineer, you’ll own the technical architecture of Forward’s security program at a pivotal moment in our growth. Rather than running a single tool or living inside one team, you’ll be the connective technical layer across our Application Security (AppSec), Security Operations (SecOps), and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) functions – making sure our security technology works together, scales, and fits naturally into how the rest of the company builds and operates. Reporting directly to the Head of Security, you’ll set the technical direction for how we design, evaluate, and integrate security platforms, and you’ll mentor engineers across all three functions along the way.

In this role you will:

- Own the end-to-end architecture of Forward’s security technology stack – the platforms, tooling, data pipelines, and integrations that power AppSec, SecOps, and GRC – and make sure it works cleanly with the broader Engineering, IT, and Infrastructure ecosystem.

- Set the technical direction for how we evaluate, integrate, standardize, and retire security tools, defining the reference architectures and standards the department builds on.

- Act as the shared technical foundation for all three security functions: helping developers build security testing into how software ships, giving the operations team clean and reliable data to detect and investigate threats, and giving the compliance team the evidence and reporting they need to prove that controls are working....