About this role
The Role
We are looking for a Founding Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to take ownership of cybersecurity across the entire Ihsan ecosystem.
This is a hands-on engineering role. You will work directly with our founding team to design, implement, and maintain security systems protecting our users, their funds, and their communications.
Key Responsibilities
- Application Security: Secure backend APIs, authentication systems, databases, and mobile applications.
- Financial Security: Protect digital wallets, stablecoin transactions, payment infrastructure, and cryptographic key management.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Security: Secure servers, cloud environments, networks, and production infrastructure.
- Messaging Security: Protect end-to-end encrypted communications, user privacy, and sensitive data.
- Threat Detection: Identify vulnerabilities, conduct security testing, and implement monitoring and incident response systems.
- Secure Development: Review code, implement security controls, and integrate automated security testing into development workflows.
Why Join Ihsan?
- Join the founding team of an ambitious global technology platform.
- Take ownership of cybersecurity across multiple products from day one.
- Work directly with the founders and senior engineers.
- Solve challenging security problems involving FinTech, blockchain, and encrypted communications.
- Help build technology designed to serve the global Muslim Ummah.
Skills
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Required Experience
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We are looking for a highly skilled, hands-on cybersecurity engineer with proven experience in financial technology.
Requirements
- Senior-level experience in cybersecurity engineering.
- Previous cybersecurity experience in FinTech, banking, payment processing, neobanking, or cryptocurrency platforms.
- Proven experience securing production applications and financial infrastructure.
- Strong programming and scripting skills, with the ability to implement security solutions independently.
- Experience with application security, API security, authentication, and encryption.
- Experience securing cloud infrastructure, databases, and backend systems.
- Practical experience with penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.
- Strong understanding of modern cyber threats and defensive security architecture.
- Excellent English communication skills.
- Willingness to work full-time, on-site in Doha, Qatar.
Technical Skills
- Application Security: OWASP, API security, OAuth 2.0, secure coding, SAST/DAST.
- Infrastructure: AWS/GCP/Azure, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, IAM, CI/CD security.
- Financial Security: Payment security, digital wallets, private key management, blockchain security.
- Programming: Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL, or similar languages.
- Security Operations: Penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response.
Strong Advantages
- Experience at a neobank, payment processor, crypto exchange, or digital wallet provider.
- Experience with EVM, smart contracts, HSMs, or MPC.
- Experience securing end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms.
- Certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CISSP, or GIAC.
- Previous experience working in the GCC.
Important: This is a hands-on engineering position, not a compliance, auditing, or security management role. We are looking for someone who can personally build and implement security solutions.
This job post has been translated by AI and may contain minor differences or errors.
Preferred candidate
Years of experience
5 - 20 years
Career level
Mid career
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