Team Lead, AppSec

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 Team Lead, AppSec, you'll take the reins of Forward's application and product security program at a pivotal moment, as we scale our use of AI to build software faster than ever. You'll lead a team of senior engineers, modernize how we pentest and remediate vulnerabilities, and make sure security keeps pace with an engineering organization that increasingly builds with, and builds, AI agents. In this role you will: - Lead application and product security across Forward-built, third-party, and AI-built software. - Evolve the pentest program: aggressively security-test and remediate existing software, then continuously test net-new agents and the software agents create. - Proactively build and integrate AI solutions within the appsec function. - Own remediation workflows and vulnerability management with Engineering, including pre-production vs. post-production gap analysis. - Partner with other teams...