VP of Technology & Platform Security

Resonsibiplities:

• Lead, mentor, and evaluate the Head of Technology and engineering team.

• Own the security, architecture, reliability, and scalability of the FlexaGift platform.

• Review critical code, system designs, APIs, database transactions, and production configurations.

• Protect voucher issuance, redemption, loyalty, payment, refund, settlement, and disbursement processes against duplication, manipulation, and fraud.

• Strengthen merchant and partner integrations, including authentication, retries, timeouts, reconciliation, and error handling.

• Establish secure development practices, including peer review, automated testing, security testing, release approvals, and rollback procedures.

• Improve production monitoring, audit logging, access control, incident response, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Lead investigations into security incidents, fraud-related defects, and major production failures.

• Establish clear ownership, performance standards, and accountability across the technology team.

• Communicate technology risks, priorities, and investment requirements directly to executive management.

• Have the authority to stop releases or suspend functionality that presents significant security, fraud, or financial risk.

Requirements:

• 10–15 years of experience in software engineering, architecture, application security, or technology leadership.

• At least 5 years leading engineering teams or technical managers.

• Experience with digital vouchers, loyalty, merchant aggregation, payments, fintech, e-commerce, marketplaces, or other transaction-based platforms.

• Strong hands-on knowledge of backend architecture, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, authentication, authorization, and application security.

• Practical understanding of idempotency, concurrency, race conditions, reconciliation, and secure transaction processing.

• Ability to review code, investigate logs and data, identify root causes, and guide engineers through implementation.

• Experience establishing secure software-development, testing, deployment, and incident-management practices.

• Strong leadership, communication, business judgment, and personal integrity.

• Preferred Experience

• Voucher, gift-card, loyalty, settlement, or disbursement systems.

• Fraud prevention and transaction monitoring.

• High-volume merchant or partner API integrations.

• Security assessments, penetration testing, or regulatory compliance.

• Strengthening an existing technology team and improving its accountability.