**Location:** Doha, Qatar (Full-time, On-site)

Company: Ihsan LLC

Product: Ihsan Super app

## About Ihsan

We are building **Ihsan — a super app for the global Muslim Ummah.**

Beginning with Ihsan Connect, an end-to-end encrypted messenger, and Ihsan Pay, a global payment system as well as our own gold-backed Ihsan Token.

Our long-term vision is to create a digital ecosystem that connects Muslims worldwide, frees the Ummah from Riba and leads to the start of a Digital Islamic Golden Age.

## The Role

We are looking for a **Founding Senior Cybersecurity Engineer** to take ownership of cybersecurity across the entire Ihsan ecosystem.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You will work directly with our founding team to design, implement, and maintain security systems protecting our users, their funds, and their communications.

## Key Responsibilities

• **Application Security:** Secure backend APIs, authentication systems, databases, and mobile applications.

• **Financial Security:** Protect digital wallets, stablecoin transactions, payment infrastructure, and cryptographic key management.

• **Cloud & Infrastructure Security:** Secure servers, cloud environments, networks, and production infrastructure.

• **Messaging Security:** Protect end-to-end encrypted communications, user privacy, and sensitive data.

• **Threat Detection:** Identify vulnerabilities, conduct security testing, and implement monitoring and incident response systems.

• **Secure Development:** Review code, implement security controls, and integrate automated security testing into development workflows.

## Why Join Ihsan?

• Join the founding team of an ambitious global technology platform.

• Take ownership of cybersecurity across multiple products from day one.

• Work directly with the founders and senior engineers.

• Solve challenging security problems involving FinTech, blockchain, and encrypted communications.

• Help build technology designed to serve the global Muslim Ummah.

Desired Candidate Profile

## Required Experience

We are looking for a highly skilled, hands-on cybersecurity engineer with proven experience in financial technology.

**Requirements:**

• Senior-level experience in cybersecurity engineering.

• **Previous cybersecurity experience in FinTech, banking, payment processing, neobanking, or cryptocurrency platforms.**

• Proven experience securing production applications and financial infrastructure.

• Strong programming and scripting skills, with the ability to implement security solutions independently.

• Experience with application security, API security, authentication, and encryption.

• Experience securing cloud infrastructure, databases, and backend systems.

• Practical experience with penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and incident response.

• Strong understanding of modern cyber threats and defensive security architecture.

• Excellent English communication skills.

• Willingness to work full-time, on-site in Doha, Qatar.

## Technical Skills

• **Application Security:** OWASP, API security, OAuth 2.0, secure coding, SAST/DAST.

• **Infrastructure:** AWS/GCP/Azure, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, IAM, CI/CD security.

• **Financial Security:** Payment security, digital wallets, private key management, blockchain security.

• **Programming:** Go, TypeScript, Python, SQL, or similar languages.

• **Security Operations:** Penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response.

## Strong Advantages

• Experience at a neobank, payment processor, crypto exchange, or digital wallet provider.

• Experience with EVM, smart contracts, HSMs, or MPC.

• Experience securing end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms.

• Certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CISSP, or GIAC.

• Previous experience working in the GCC.

**Important:** This is a hands-on engineering position, not a compliance, auditing, or security management role. We are looking for someone who can personally build and implement security solutions.