Appknox
http://appknox.comAppknox, a leading mobile app security solution HQ in Singapore & Bangalore was founded by Harshit Agarwal and Subho Halder.
Since its inception, Appknox has become one of the go-to security solutions with the most powerful plug-and-play security platform, enabling security researchers, developers, and enterprises to build safe and secure mobile ecosystems using a system-plus human approach.
Appknox offers VA+PT solutions ( Vulnerability Assessment + Penetration Testing ) that provide end-to-end mobile application security and testing strategies to Fortune 500, SMB and Large Enterprises Globally helping businesses and mobile developers make their mobile apps more secure, thus not only enhancing protection for their customers but also for their own brand.
During the course of 9 years, Appknox has scaled up to work with some major brands in India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, Japan, and the US and has also successfully enabled some of the top government agencies with its On-Premise deployments & compliance testing. Appknox helps 500+ Enterprises which includes 20+ Fortune 1000 and ministries/regulators across 10+ countries and some of the top banks across 20+ countries.
A champion of Value SaaS, with its customer and security-first approach Appknox has won many awards and recognitions from G2, and Gartner and is one of the top mobile app security vendors in its 2021 Application security Hype Cycle report.
Our forward-leaning, pioneering spirit is backed by SeedPlus, JFDI Asia, Microsoft Ventures, and Cisco Launchpad and a legacy of expertise that began at the dawn of 2014.
Jobs at Appknox
A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.
We are a 40+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and help some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited, and let’s speak further.
The Opportunity
To join the security team engaging with multiple clients, helping them with end-to-end security audits, also researching new topics and vulnerabilities to be added to the scanner, present research at conferences.
What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:
- Skills - Application Penetration Testing, experience with IoT testing, source code audits.
- Technology Stack: Python
- Responsibilities: Engage with clients for scoping call, perform security audits, and remediation call with clients to patch the issues, research on new technologies/vulnerabilities
Minimum Requirements
- Should have at least 2 years of experience in security or show something that proves experience doesn’t matter
- Must be comfortable with tools like burp suite,
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Strong grasp of fundamentals of information security
- Strong Grasp of Web and API Pen-Testing
- Self-taught learner willing to read and keep up-to-date on technological changes and how they could be used
- Can accurately define an issue and create detailed Proof-of-concept and write-up of the findings.
- Provide appropriate remediation and mitigations of the identified vulnerabilities.
Responsibilities
- Security assessment of web applications.
- Develop and interpret security standards and guides
- Automation of security test cases
- Understand and explain the results with impact on business and compliance status
- Continuously learning and training on the latest tools and techniques
Work Expectations
Within 1 month
Training on processes, security workflow
Within 3 months
Pentesting Web, Mobile and API endpoints
Within 6 months
Research and publish whitepapers, contribute to the Appknox Web Scanner
Personality traits we admire:-
- A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humor, is an added advantage.
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Has attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follow timelines and have an absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process - would be team specific
- Round 1 - Profile Evaluation
- Round 2 - Appknox CTF Challenge
- Round 3 -Technical Interview with security team members
- Round 4 - Technical Interview with the CTO and Team Lead
- Round 5 - HR Round
Compensation
- As per Industry Standards
Why Join Us:-
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to train and develop our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will allow you to experience it all first-hand.
A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.
We are a 30+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and help some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited, and let’s speak further.
The Opportunity
To join the security team engaging with multiple clients, helping them with end-to-end security audits, also researching new topics and vulnerabilities to be added to the scanner, present research at conferences.
What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:
- Anyone pursuing their graduation or post-graduation related to IT security
- Skills - Application Penetration Testing,
- Knowledge or experience of IoT testing, and source code audits are plus points
- Responsibilities: Engage with clients for scoping call, perform security audits, and remediation call with clients to patch the issues
Minimum Requirements
- Must be comfortable with tools like burp suite, nmap, sqlmap, r2 etc
- Strong Analytical Skills
- Strong grasp of fundamentals of information security
- Strong Grasp of Web, API and mobile Pen-Testing
- Self-taught learner willing to read and keep up-to-date on technological changes and how they could be used
- Can accurately define an issue and create detailed Proof-of-concept and write-up of the findings.
- Provide appropriate remediation and mitigations of the identified vulnerabilities.
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms like AWS or GCP. Security knowledge in this domain is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Security assessment of web and mobile applications.
- Understand and explain the results with impact on business and compliance status
- Continuously learning and training on latest tools and techniques
Personality traits we really admire
- A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humor, is an added advantage.
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
- Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follow timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process
- Round 1 CTF Round - Profile and skill Evaluation
- Round 2 - Technical Interview with security team member
- Round 3 - Technical Interview with the Team Lead
- Round 4 - HR Round
Why Join Us
- Great Stipend& PPO: We keep up with the market standards & provide stipend/pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also PPO for our top interns.
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to train and develop our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first-hand.
A BIT ABOUT US
Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.
The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.
Our business includes Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Japan, US, and expanding rapidly.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer(Python) who, along with our excellent software development team, will be responsible for working on projects that are currently being developed by our company. Duties will include but are not limited to developing, and directing software system validation, and testing methods as well as directing our software programming initiatives. You will also be working closely with clients and cross-functional departments to communicate project statuses and proposals.
You will be working hands-on on products built in Django Framework, and revolve around developing and maintaining distributed services. The language stack extends from the majority of Python to Golang, Rust, and possibly low-level languages such as C. Distributed systems are an integral part of our core architecture; as such, you will get hands-on experience in maintaining and scaling such systems. We cherish and encourage opensource contributions; check out our profile at https://github.com/appknox
You don’t need to know anything about security to apply for this position as we have experienced security professionals on board who will help you.
We are very picky about hiring because the core members will set the engineering culture that the entire tech team will follow in the future.
We strive to achieve incredibly high standards and to hire people who enjoy pushing themselves to grow and learn.
Responsibilities:
- Working on a disruptive product in the Security Domain
- Responsible for driving innovation in Software Development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Owning the design process, implementation, and verification of framework components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies
- Translating functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
- Execute full software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to identify requirements and solutions
- Write well-designed, testable code
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
- Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
- Deploy programs and evaluate user feedback
- Comply with project plans and industry standards
- Ensure software is maintained with regular update
Requirements:
- 2-5 years of work experience (Experience is optional if you can showcase your work)
- Ability to develop software in Django, Python, Django REST Framework (DRF)
- Knowledge of relational databases, SQL and ORMs (Django ORM, SQLAlchemy)
- Experience developing web applications
- Experience with test-driven development is a bonus
- Proficiency in software engineering tools
- Ability to document requirements and specifications
Work Expectations
Within 1 month
- Understanding the requirements, creating a plan of action
- Develop in collaboration with frontend & security teams
- You will be writing RESTful APIs and distributed tasks.
Within 3 months
- Switching to TDD (Test Driven Development)
- Work in Agile Methodology
- Product Documentation
- Bug fixes, Maintenance, and Technical Support
Within 6 months
- Going forward the role will eventually take into full ownership of the technical aspects of the specific product feature.
- Building CLIs and tools
- Maintaining production code
Personality traits we admire:-
- Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
- Has attention to detail and helps identify edge cases.
- Highly motivated and coming up with ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
- Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.
Interview Process
- Round 1 Interview - Profile Evaluation
- Round 2 Interview - Assignment Evaluation
- Round 3 Interview - Engineering Team & Technical Founder
- Round 4 Interview - HR
Compensation
- Best in Market
We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.
Please be aware that all your customers are Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.
Why Join Us:-
- Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
- Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
- Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
- Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will allow you to experience it all firsthand.
- Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage up to 5 Lacs for you and your family including your parents.
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