Coins.ph Hiring! Full Time Head of Payment Security - Transaction Integrity in - Ricebowl

Join the Pioneer Crypto Brand in the Philippines!

Coins is the most established crypto brand in The Philippines and has gained the trust of more than 18 million users. Through the easy-to-use mobile app, users can buy and sell a variety of different cryptocurrencies and access a wide range of financial services.

Coins is fully regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and is the first ever crypto-based company in Asia to hold both Virtual Currency and Electronic Money Issuer licenses from a central bank.

Role Summary
Coins is seeking a senior leader to establish and own our Payment Security and Transaction Integrity function.

This role is responsible for protecting the integrity of payment flows across QRPH, Wallet, Merchant Payments, Crypto-Fiat rails, and future payment products.

Unlike traditional cybersecurity roles, this position focuses on business logic vulnerabilities, payment fraud, transaction manipulation risks, settlement integrity, and adversarial testing of payment systems.

Responsibilities
Payment Security Architecture

• Review and approve payment flow designs before production launch
• Conduct payment threat modeling for all new payment products
• Define secure transaction integrity standards
• Establish source-of-truth and immutable payment context frameworks
  
  
  
  
  

Transaction Integrity

• Prevent amount tampering, currency manipulation, replay attacks, merchant spoofing, and settlement abuse
• Build transaction verification controls and payment validation mechanisms
• Define critical payment control requirements across all payment products
  
  
  
  
  

Adversarial Testing

• Establish a Payment Red Team program
• Simulate malicious user behavior against payment systems
• Conduct business logic attack testing and abuse-case validation
  
  
  
  
  

Incident Response

• Lead investigations of payment-related security incidents
• Conduct root cause analysis and drive remediation
• Build a payment incident review and governance framework
  
  
  
  
  

Fraud & Risk Partnership

• Partner with Fraud, Risk, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering teams
• Design monitoring and alerting frameworks for transaction anomalies
• Reduce financial losses caused by abuse, fraud, and system weaknesses
  
  
  
  
  

Governance

• Chair Payment Security Review Board
• Define payment security standards and launch approval processes
• Create risk acceptance and escalation frameworks
  
  
  
  
  

Requirements

• 8+ years in payments, fintech, acquiring, banking, or transaction risk
• Deep understanding of payment systems, merchant acquiring, settlement, reconciliation, and transaction processing
• Experience with payment fraud, transaction abuse, or payment security
• Strong understanding of business logic vulnerabilities and adversarial thinking
• Ability to work across Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams
  
  
  
  
  

Join the Coins Team Now!

Meaningful Collaborations - The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with other relevant teams to carry out implementations that will improve and create an impact on customer experience.

Scalable Growth - Be part of a fast-growing organization with the vision to expand its territories outside APAC which will provide opportunities for career advancement.

A Space For Bright Ideas - Let your bright ideas be converted into meaningful changes! Coins culture welcomes new ideas backed up by data to create an impact.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.