Security Engineering Manager - Associate (Berlin)

Security Engineering Manager - Associate

Company Overview

Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix and Steuerbot, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016.

Job Summary

Lead Product Security at Taxfix - a fintech platform serving millions of users. You'll own the security function end-to-end: strategy, tooling, and a small but growing team (currently two Security Engineers). This role is part hands-on security engineering and part emerging people leadership. You'll build alongside your team while growing into an engineering management role, with structured coaching and support from your senior manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: Hire, coach, and develop Security Engineers - run meaningful 1:1s, set development goals, and actively manage performance.
• Build a high-performance team culture rooted in psychological safety, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Champion AI adoption within the team - encourage AI-assisted workflows for security work (threat modeling, detection engineering, vulnerability triage).
• Evaluate capacity, balance reactive vs. proactive security work, and advocate for the resources your team needs.
• Own the team's outcomes against OKRs: prioritize effectively, track progress with metrics, and delegate without micromanaging.
• Own the technical direction for Product Security: application security, AI security, cloud security posture.
• Ensure rigorous vulnerability management, incident response, and security-in-SDLC practices.
• Partner with Technical Leadership and Architecture to align security work with the broader technology strategy.
• Own and evolve the security tooling stack: driving consolidation and effectiveness across the Taxfix group.
• Support AI security needs: LLM security risks, adversarial testing, secure integration patterns, and AI threat modeling.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs: balancing risk, cost, developer experience, and delivery speed.
• Bridge your team and its stakeholders: Product Engineering, AI Engineering, Platform, Data, and Architecture.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 8+ years in application security, DevSecOps, or security engineering with strong hands-on depth.
• Tech lead, team lead, or early management experience — with a clear desire to grow into engineering management and openness to being coached.
• Track record of leading technical initiatives end-to-end: scoping, executing, and rollout.
• Strong understanding of cloud security across at least one major provider (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure transferable), with multi-cloud experience as a plus.
• Experience with security tooling: CNAPP/CSPM platforms, vulnerability scanners, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and penetration testing coordination.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code).
• Familiarity with AI security — LLM security risks, adversarial testing, secure integration patterns.
• Active user of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or similar).
• Track record of driving outcomes using metrics, OKRs, or KPIs.
• Systems and outcomes mindset.
• Effective communicator across engineering, product, and leadership audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in regulated environments.
• Exposure to incident response coordination at scale, including post-mortem leadership.
• Background in threat modeling programs at engineering org scale.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads from a security angle (model supply chain, prompt injection defenses, agent guardrails).

Location

Berlin, Germany. Hybrid role.

Employment Type

Full time

Salary & Benefits

• Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions and yoga.
• A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services.
• Employee stock options for all employees.
• 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
• Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year.
• Free tax declaration filing through the Taxfix app.
• Pet-friendly office.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.