Casca

AI Agents for Banking

Founding Security Engineer

$150K - $250K / 0.05% - 0.15%
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Lukas Haffer
Lukas Haffer
CEO & Co-Founder

About the role

Founding Security Engineer

Shape the future of secure AI-powered fintech at Casca.

The Mission

You'll be the cornerstone of our security program, building the fortress that protects millions of customers' financial data while enabling rapid AI innovation. This isn't about maintaining the status quo – it's about creating a new security paradigm where cutting-edge GenAI meets bank-grade protection.

Your Impact

As our first Security Engineer, you'll:

  • Architect our entire security infrastructure from scratch, working directly with our engineering team, Chief Risk Officer, and CTO

  • Build automated security systems that scale with our explosive growth

  • Pioneer security practices that set industry standards for AI-powered fintech

  • Lead SOC 1 & SOC 2 compliance while maintaining our aggressive innovation pace

  • Create a company-wide security culture through engaging training programs

The Opportunity

This is your chance to define how the next generation of financial institutions handle security. You'll bridge the gap between bleeding-edge AI innovation and institutional-grade protection, creating systems that safeguard millions while enabling breakthrough features.

Join us in building something unprecedented – where security enables innovation rather than constraining it.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of information security experience

  • Bachelors degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering

  • Strong experience with AWS cloud security (GuardDuty, WAF, Shield, Route 53, Well Architected)

  • Deep knowledge of security and AI frameworks (NIST-CSF, NIST-AI RMF)

  • Experience with compliance standards (SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS)

  • Experience with security tools (SIEM, IDS/IPS)

  • Strong coding abilities in Python, Go, or similar languages

  • Excellent communication and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Relevant security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CEH)

  • Experience in fintech or banking, or other highly regulated industries

  • Background in application, data, and/or infrastructure security

  • Experience building security programs from scratch

  • Site Reliability Engineering experience

  • Familiarity with modern observability platforms

Why Casca?

We're revolutionizing the $7T lending industry through GenAI systems, killing traditional lending software as we know it. Our loan origination platform is reshaping how banks evaluate and process loans, reducing decision time from months to minutes. We've already earned the trust of major U.S. banks and are growing quickly. Join us and define the future of banking.

About Casca

Casca is building AGI for banking.

We are replacing 30+ year-old legacy technology with AI-native systems of record that automate 90% of the manual work humans used to have to do.

Our first product is an AI-native Loan Origination System - with a built-in AI Agent, called Sarah. Sarah communicates with small business loan applicants via email or sms, guides them through the application process and prepares the loan file for a human underwriter.

Why? Small businesses are the heart of the American economy and a lot of banks shy away from providing funding because of the manual effort in pursuing those deals. With us, that changes and unlocks affordable, quick bank funding for the 30M+ small businesses in the US as opposed to the high interest rates from online lenders.

Who are we?

  • All-Stanford team of AI/ML engineers
  • Industry experts that have grown banking software companies to $150M+ in ARR
Casca
Founded:2023
Team Size:6
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Lukas Haffer
Lukas Haffer
CEO & Co-Founder
Isaiah Williams
Isaiah Williams
Founder