Cybersecurity Specialist | FinTech & Payments

We’re Hiring:
Cybersecurity Specialist | Fin Tech & Payments

MoneyEU  is looking for an experienced  Cybersecurity Specialist / Information Security Engineer  to strengthen the security of our growing payment technology infrastructure.

About MoneyEU
MoneyEU is building a modern payments infrastructure designed to connect merchants with multiple payment methods, acquiring partners, banking rails, and financial technology providers through a scalable technology platform Security, compliance, reliability, and intelligent payment infrastructure are central to what we are building.
MoneyEU operates within the global Fin Tech and payments ecosystem, supporting solutions across  card acquiring, payment orchestration, alternative payment methods, Open Banking, SEPA, ACH, API integrations, and Banking-as-a-Service infrastructure

As our technology ecosystem expands, cybersecurity is a critical part of our platform, and we are looking for someone who understands that security in payments goes far beyond traditional IT security.

What You’ll Be Responsible For
The successful candidate will work closely with our technology, compliance, risk, and operations teams to protect MoneyEU's infrastructure, applications, APIs, payment flows, and sensitive information.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Conducting regular  security assessments, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing

• Monitoring infrastructure, applications, APIs, servers, and network environments for security vulnerabilities and suspicious activity

• Strengthening the security of our  payment gateway and payment orchestration infrastructure

• Reviewing API security, authentication mechanisms, API keys, secrets, tokens, webhooks, and access controls

• Implementing and maintaining  Web Application Firewalls (WAF), IDS/IPS, SIEM, endpoint protection, and security monitoring systems

• Identifying and mitigating threats including:
– Credential attacks
– Account takeover
– API abuse
– DDoS attacks
– Bot traffic
– Malware
– Data leakage
– Unauthorized access
– Application vulnerabilities
– Merchant-side security risks

• Supporting secure configuration of cloud infrastructure, servers, databases, networks, and production environments.

• Implementing strong  Identity and Access Management (IAM) , MFA, RBAC, privileged-access controls, and least-privilege policies

• Performing secure-code and application-security reviews alongside the development team

• Supporting  PCI DSS  security requirements and payment-industry security controls

• Managing vulnerability remediation and coordinating security patches with engineering teams

• Performing third-party and vendor security assessments

• Developing incident-response procedures and supporting investigation of cybersecurity incidents

• Maintaining security logs, evidence, incident records, risk registers, and remediation documentation

• Conducting periodic employee cybersecurity awareness and phishing-prevention training

• Supporting Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Operational Resilience controls

• Continuously evaluating emerging cybersecurity threats affecting Fin Tech, payment processors, PSPs, merchants, APIs, and financial institutions

Payments &inTech Security
We are particularly interested in candidates who understand security within environments involving:

• Payment Gateways

• PSPs / Acquirers

• Card Processing

• PCI DSS

• 3DS / 3DS2

• Payment APIs

• REST APIs & Webhooks

• Tokenisation

• Merchant Platforms

• Open Banking

• Banking APIs

• Fraud & Transaction Monitoring

• Cloud Infrastructure

• High-volume transaction environments

Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone with approximately  5–8+ years of relevant cybersecurity / information-security experience , preferably within  Fin Tech, Banking, Payments,…