Team Lead Security

**Our story**:
Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.

Spread across Berlin and Madrid, Team Taxfix is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with 500+ professionals from 45+ different nationalities, we're rich in ideas and voices. In four years, we've raised over 300 million euros in funding and helped people reclaim more than one billion euros.

**Your challenge**:
You will build and lead a talented, multidisciplinary cybersecurity team, leveraging what you believe are industry best practices and the latest, most useful technologies. You will own the cybersecurity aspects of our product, and contribute to underlying security infrastructure and culture.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Leading and developing the cybersecurity engineering team.
- Contribute to the long-term technical strategy for cybersecurity at the company
- Help engineering teams build secure products & services from the ground up.
- Educate & train engineering teams to create a security conscious engineering organization.
- Coordinate with a group of product engineers (Security Champions) on the execution of security initiatives on the product.
- Build new tools and processes with cybersecurity industry best practices.

**Your profile**:

- Around 3 years of experience in leading a team.
- A genuine interest and passion for security.
- Previous experience working in a DevSecOps environment in a product company.
- Strong understanding of security architecture review, threat modelling, code review & penetration testing.
- Aptness to find flaws in the software before it reaches production.
- Solid foundation of core information security principles and concepts including cryptography.
- Experience in software engineering and comfortable building automation tools.
- Solid understanding of cloud native technologies.
- Good understanding of cloud environments (ideally GCP).
- You love taking initiative.
- You are a diversity champion.

Why Taxfix?
- A chance to do meaningful, people-centric work with an international team of passionate professionals.
- Holistic wellbeing with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
- A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services that you can use and rollover as flexibly as you like.
- Employee stock options for all employees—because everyone deserves to benefit from the success they help to create.
- Dedicated relocation and visa support for those that need it.
- 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 on our blog and get a glimpse of our culture below:
At Taxfix, we believe that incredible things happen when you have a wealth of perspectives and experiences. We're proudly committed to equal employment and development opportunities no matter your gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, colour, disability, or place of origin. To help mitigate any potential unconscious biases, we ask that you refrain from including your picture, age, or marital status on your CV. Let your experiences speak for themselves.