Cross River provides technology infrastructure powering the future of financial services.
Leveraging a proprietary real-time banking core, Cross River delivers innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, lending, and crypto solutions to millions of consumers and businesses.
Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies.
Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion.
Member FDIC.

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Cross River is a leading technology-focused financial company that provides API-driven banking infrastructure. They enable a wide range of financial services, leveraging partnerships with major payment networks like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to offer card issuing solutions. Cross River supports innovation in financial services through a variety of products, including infrastructure for banks, digital lending solutions, faster payments like FedNow® and RTP®, and card and account programs for credit and debit. Their solutions cater to numerous sectors, redefining financial services with compliance-integrated solutions, serving neobanks, digital lenders, and various institutional credit investors.

Cross River provides technology infrastructure powering the future of financial services. Leveraging a proprietary real-time banking core, Cross River delivers innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, lending, and crypto solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion. Member FDIC.

• Design, build, test, and deploy backend systems for high-scale financial applications
• Lead architecture reviews and drive decisions across technologies and platforms
• Write well-tested code and review peers’ work for quality and clarity
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Security teams to deliver seamless experiences
• Own and improve development lifecycles including CI/CD, observability, and cloud automation
• Debug production issues and lead efforts to ensure system reliability and uptime
• Contribute to internal documentation and onboarding processes
• Participate in a Tier 2/3 on-call rotation to support business-critical systems

Senior Backend Engineer, GO

Senior Software Engineer designing and deploying backend systems for financial applications at Cross River. Collaborating across teams to enhance scalability and stability while ensuring compliance.

security-engineer

• Contribute to the design and implementation of security measures across AWS environments to ensure systems are secure, compliant, and aligned with industry best practices
• Conduct regular security assessments, control testing, and audits to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities (and support remediation efforts with partner teams)
• Work closely with internal teams to integrate security best practices into development and operational workflows
• Design and implement automation strategies for security monitoring, auditing, and incident response
• Contribute to cloud cost management by optimizing cloud resources without compromising on security
• Participate in incident response efforts to support timely identification, analysis, containment, and remediation of security threats
• Contribute to post-incident reviews, help maintain incident response playbooks, and support internal teams by sharing learnings and updated procedures

Mid-Level Security Engineer

AWS Security Engineer at Cross River IT focusing on cloud security and compliance across AWS environments. Implementing robust security controls and collaborating with internal teams for best practices.

• Direct Support to Security Engineering Leadership
• Assist the VP, Security Engineering with tracking requests, action items, and follow-ups arising from meetings, emails, and discussions
• Maintain organized lists of open items, next steps, and pending decisions
• Perform routine follow-ups with internal teams and external vendors on behalf of Security Engineering
• Help ensure deadlines and commitments are visible and monitored
• Surface overdue items or risks that may require attention
• Coordination & Task Tracking Support coordination of security engineering activities across Security, IT, Engineering, GRC, and external partners
• Track progress of assigned tasks and initiatives using established tools and processes
• Assist in scheduling, preparation, and follow-up for security-related meetings
• Help organize priorities and timelines across multiple parallel efforts
• Maintain familiarity with core security engineering domains, including: Identity and Access Management, Endpoint and device management, Cloud security basics (AWS and Azure), Security tooling and operational workflows
• Capture key outcomes, decisions, and action items from technical discussions
• Maintain documentation, trackers, and status updates
• Ask clarifying questions to ensure expectations and next steps are understood
• Support intake and coordination of inbound requests to the Security Engineering team
• Prepare clear summaries and status updates as needed
• Help ensure relevant information is shared with appropriate stakeholders
• Support prioritization discussions by maintaining visibility into current workload and commitments

Security Engineering Operations Coordinator

Security Engineering Operations Coordinator assisting VP of Security Engineering at Cross River IT. Supporting technical teams and ensuring smooth operations in a hybrid model.

Senior BE, GO

Senior Software Engineer at Cross River Engineering designing and deploying backend systems for high-scale financial applications. Leading architecture reviews and collaborating across teams.

• Design enterprise AI guardrails across Azure and AWS (e.g., Azure AI Studio/Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock/SageMaker): content filtering, PII redaction, prompt/response validation, and policy enforcement services.
• Implement data minimization controls for GenAI/RAG workloads: context filtering, least‐privileged retrieval, document-level ACL enforcement, vector store hardening, and secure token/secret handling.
• Threat model AI systems (apps, agents, RAG, fine-tuning pipelines) using frameworks like STRIDE and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps; define misuse scenarios (prompt injection/jailbreaks/data exfiltration) and build mitigations.
• Build monitoring and telemetry: privacy-preserving prompt/response logging, sensitive-data detection, safety/eval dashboards, drift/abuse signals, and incident hooks into our SIEM.
• Integrate AI security into the SDLC: reusable libraries, pre-commit checks, CI/CD gates, policy-as-code, and secure-by-default reference architectures for product teams.
• Evaluate third‑party AI vendors and internal apps: security reviews, data residency and retention requirements, SSO/SCIM integrations, DPA/TPRM inputs, and continuous control testing.
• Partner across Security, Data, Privacy, and Engineering to map AI controls to FFIEC, SOC 2, and PCI DSS; document control evidence for audits.
• Lead/participate in AI red‑teaming: automated jailbreak/prompt‑injection tests, safety benchmarks, purple‑team exercises, and response playbooks for AI incidents.
• Enable the org with concise guidelines, examples, and training on safe AI development and usage.

AI Security Engineer

AI Security Engineer at Cross River designing secure AI systems to protect customer data and meet regulations. Focusing on scalable guardrails and tools for innovative financial technology.

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