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Software Development
Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Fanatics Momentum is building the UAE's leading regulated commercial gaming operator. Licensed by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA), we operate across lottery, iGaming, sports book, and digital content, combining Momentum's regional foundation with Fanatics' global product, technology, and scale. The business is ambitious, well-resourced, and moving fast. If you want to help build a category-defining operator in one of the world's most exciting regulated gaming markets, this is the right time to join.
We're building a new UAE-based business spanning Sports book, Casino, Lottery and a broader connected Fan Ecosystem, backed by Fanatics and Momentum. As Lead, Application Security, you'll own application security testing and Dev Sec Ops engineering end to end across Fan Mo's technology platforms. This is a hands‑on engineering leadership role. You'll be responsible for embedding security throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring our applications, APIs, infrastructure and deployment pipelines are secure by default.
You'll own the application security tooling ecosystem, engineer automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines, and build the guardrails and developer self‑service capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver securely h AI increasingly changing how software is built, you'll also play a key role in making AI‑assisted development secure by design. This means understanding the risks introduced by AI‑generated code and agentic workflows, implementing practical security controls, and helping developers use AI coding assistants safely and effectively.
The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with an offensive security mindset. You're comfortable getting hands‑on with code, validating vulnerabilities, automating security controls and influencing engineering teams. You know how to distinguish theoretical findings from genuine, exploitable risk and turn those insights into practical improvements.
Application Security & Testing
Own Fan Mo's application security testing capability across SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning, infrastructure‑as‑code scanning, API security and mobile application testing. Manage the full lifecycle of application security platforms, including evaluation, implementation, integration, configuration, upgrades and ongoing optimization. Establish application onboarding, scanning policies, security rules and testing frequency based on application risk. Tune existing rulesets and develop custom rules to improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
Build a consolidated view of application security risk, prioritizing findings based on exploitability and business impact. Extend application security testing to AI‑generated code and AI‑enabled product features.
Own vulnerability triage, validation, prioritization and remediation tracking across application security findings. Establish automated workflows to route findings to engineering teams, track remediation against agreed SLAs and verify closure. Build developer self‑service capabilities, including IDE integrations, secure templates, approved base images and hardened libraries. Provide practical, actionable remediation guidance directly to developers. Establish and support a security champions network across engineering teams.
Develop secure‑by‑default instructions, reusable rules and skills for AI coding assistants to ensure generated code aligns with organizational security standards. Deliver targeted secure‑coding education based on recurring vulnerabilities and root‑cause analysis.
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