Application Security Engineer - Assistant Vice President

iCapital • Salt Lake City, UT

38d • $100,000 - $130,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

ICapital is looking for a hands-on Application Security practitioner to join a small, high-impact team building a modern AppSec program. This individual will work directly with the Head of AppSec and senior team members, executing secure design, API security, and developer enablement.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience across some secure design and threat modeling, API security, offensive security, or SAST/SCA program work
• Real understanding of attack patterns and exploitation techniques
• Familiar with OWASP Top 10 in practice
• API security experience with REST and GraphQL assessment
• Able to build and maintain security automation in Python, tooling that scales AppSec capacity
• Understanding of web application and API security
• Able to operate with autonomy in an environment still building its processes

Nice To Haves

• Relevant certifications
• cloud-native environment experience
• exposure to AI/LLM security are a plus
• Experience as a developer or engineer
• fluency in Ruby, Python, and Scala are a plus

Responsibilities

• Support threat modeling and design reviews across a broad and growing service portfolio.
• Support shift-left security initiatives, security in CI/CD, developer guidance, and SAST and SCA remediation workflows.
• Contribute to API security across the organization, assessing API exposure, validating authentication and authorization patterns.
• Write Python automation that scales AppSec capacity: triage tooling, finding pipelines, security context enrichment.
• Work directly with developers to remediate SAST and SCA findings, reduce false positive noise, and build security habits across engineering.

Benefits

• equity for all full-time employees
• annual performance bonus
• employer matched retirement plan
• generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling
• parental leave
• unlimited paid time off (PTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed