Taxfix - Associate Engineering Manager
Requirements
• 8+ years in application security, DevSecOps, or security engineering with strong hands-on depth • Tech lead, team lead, or early management experience — with a clear desire to grow into engineering management and openness to being coached • Track record of leading technical initiatives end-to-end: scoping, executing, and rollout • Strong understanding of cloud security across at least one major provider (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure transferable), with multi-cloud experience as a plus • Experience with security tooling: CNAPP/CSPM platforms, vulnerability scanners, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and penetration testing coordination • Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code) sufficient to embed security controls into modern delivery pipelines • Familiarity with AI security — LLM security risks, adversarial testing, secure integration patterns • Active user of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or similar) • Track record of driving outcomes using metrics, OKRs, or KPIs • Systems and outcomes mindset — able to prioritize the work that matters most and say no to the rest • Effective communicator across engineering, product, and leadership audiences — including framing risk in business terms for non-security audiences • Experience working in regulated environments • Exposure to incident response coordination at scale, including post-mortem leadership • Background in threat modeling programs at engineering org scale • Experience supporting AI/ML workloads from a security angle (model supply chain, prompt injection defenses, agent guardrails)
Responsibilities
• Lead and grow the team • Hire, coach, and develop Security Engineers - run meaningful 1:1s, set development goals, and actively manage performance • Build a high-performance team culture rooted in psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement • Champion AI adoption within the team - encourage AI-assisted workflows for security work (threat modeling, detection engineering, vulnerability triage) and continuously raise the bar on how AI is used to improve productivity • Evaluate capacity, balance reactive vs. proactive security work, and advocate for the resources your team needs • Own delivery and security posture • Own the team's outcomes against OKRs: prioritize effectively, track progress with metrics, and delegate without micromanaging • Own the technical direction for Product Security: application security, AI security, cloud security posture • Ensure rigorous vulnerability management, incident response, and security-in-SDLC practices • Shape security strategy • Partner with Technical Leadership and Architecture to align security work with the broader technology strategy • Own and evolve the security tooling stack: driving consolidation and effectiveness across the Taxfix group • Support AI security needs: LLM security risks, adversarial testing, secure integration patterns, and AI threat modeling • Evaluate technical trade-offs: balancing risk, cost, developer experience, and delivery speed, and communicate them clearly to stakeholders, framing impact in business terms, not just technical severity • Partner across the org • Bridge your team and its stakeholders: Product Engineering, AI Engineering, Platform, Data, and Architecture - embedding security early in the development lifecycle • Align priorities with peer EMs across Platform Engineering • Proactively surface blockers, manage dependencies, and keep information flowing • Communicate security posture, risks, and trade-offs clearly to engineering leadership and, where relevant, to compliance, legal, and executive stakeholders
Benefits
• A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals. • Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga. • A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and roll over as flexibly as you like. • Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create. • 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours. • Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year. Just align with your team, and then enjoy your trip. • Plenty of opportunities to socialise as a team. In addition to internal tech meetups, our international team hosts regular get-togethers - virtually and in person when possible. • Free tax declaration filing, of course, through the Taxfix app - and internal support for all personal tax-related questions. • Have a four-legged friend in your life? We’re happy to have dogs join us in the office. • Excited? So are we. Learn more about Team Taxfix on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture.
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